Weir Christmas....

Alex vs. Anita

Logan vs. Gabby

Megan vs. Erica

Anita taking her turn at Guesstures

Wanda, RJ & Lucie

Every year, usually a week or so after Christmas, my sister's along with our parents and I get together to celebrate Christmas. We all have so many different places to go on the 25th that we don't have time to see each other on the actual holiday. So we get together for several hours and play games, dance and sing, and have our annual "gift exchange".

We set the limit at $15. These days nobody has a lot of money so anyone who wants to be in the drawing buys a "gender neutral" gift and wraps it up. We then place all of the gifts into the middle of the living room and draw numbers to see who gets to choose first. Then the first person chooses a gift. The second person then can either choose a new gift from the pile or steal the first persons gift. It ends up going round and round, people stealing someone else's gift until the last person is satisfied with their gift and the exchange is over. (we had to put a limit on how many times you can steal the same gift - 2)

Some of us get pretty creative. Gift choices this year included a hot cocoa set, a gas card, beer mugs, margarita glasses, snuggies (one came with the matching foot massager), mind benders, minute to win it games, a salsa chopper, a serving tray that came with 2 bowls, 2 plates, 2 glasses and some candy, and several other gifts. BUT the most fought over gifts were the 2 (seperate gifts) crockpots. I had boughten one last year and put it into the drawing and it was a huge success, so I thought why not buy one again this year. Everyone seemed to love it last year. My sister Anita obviously had the same idea, therefore we had 2 this year to fight over. It was quite funny how many times we stole them back and forth. In the end, we each took home the crockpot we bought, too funny. Who knows, maybe next year there will be more!!!

We also played several minute to win it games at this gathering so I was able to snap a couple of pictures of us all playing the "stack the cup" challenge!