February 14, 2011

Christmas Dinner and Family Celebration

December 26, 2010.
We had the whole fam damily over the day after Christmas. It was SO MUCH FUN. That about sums it up. I am apparently a woman of few words. :-)

me, mom, laila
 Everyone!
 The game playing begins...
 If you've never played, here is what you do.
 Take a BIG box and put a small neutral gift inside. Wrap as normal.
 Then, take a whole roll of packing tape and cover every square inch of the wrapping paper with it. :-)
 Then, have your family/friends get in a circle on the ground. Put out two oven mitts and a pair of die. Each person in the circle starts taking turns rolling the dice. When someone finally gets doubles, they get a turn at attempting to unwrap the gift using the oven mitts (as everyone around them continues to roll the dice), until the next person in the circle rolls doubles, then they steal the mitts and get their turn to try and unwrap the gift, until the next person gets doubles, etc., etc.

It went round and round and round with my masterful wrap/tape job! Oh man, is this game entertaining to watch! It gets very intense and hilarious once someone finally breaks open an edge and starts the opening process for all the players, just as the next person steals the mitts from them. At that point it is a race to get the present open.

Brett FINALLY won the Subway gift card and some lotto scratch tickets! Tee hee :-)
 The great turkey carver
 Cheers
 The nephews (punks)
 Mmmmmmmmmmmmm
 Aunt Mil and Randy
 Uh-oh
 Scott in a texting frenzy!
 Jake loves Carter. Who doesn't???!!!
 Cousins

 Lai and Brett. Cute!

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