A Merry Time was had by All!

We had a great Christmas Eve this year. Mikel joined us and we divided up into teams.  Since that made an uneven amount of people, I was the photographer.  I'd come up with all the games anyway, so here is our fun and competitive Christmas Eve.  The first job was to divide into teams.  We put everyone in a bowl and drew.  It just so happened to be Talon, Tanner and Taz versus Garry, Cynjyn and Mikel.  The first game was Wreath hang.  As a team they had to get three ornaments and hang them on a string only using their face.  I forgot I was the photographer since it was the first game, so I had T and C pose.  Each game had to be done in 60 seconds.

Game 2:  Chubby Santa.  (like Chubby bunny, but they have to say Chubby Santa after they add a marshmallow to their mouth.)  We only had the ones that thought they could get the most in go first.  Garry and Talon tied, so the runner ups had to go.

We did a game we called backdrop fun where one person from each team tied a clipboard to their waist and the two other teammates had to bounce big marshmallow's off it into a bowl.  You're supposed to use ping pong balls, but we didn't have enough.

We played the chocolate bar game which is a tradition.  You roll the die and whomever gets a 6 has to put on the hat and gloves and scarf and open and start eating the chocolate.  You don't get very far though because once that 6 is rolled the next person grabs it off you!

Do or die was next.  You had to hold a popsicle stick in your mouth and balance 6 die on it and make it hold for 3 seconds. Taz was the only victor.

Oh Christmas tree was super hard.  They had to stack cups starting with 8 on the bottom and then unstack them in one minute.  No one did it, but Tanner and Cynjyn  both went about a second over.  At first we were only letting them use one hand but that was way too hard.

We had a pie eating contest and whomever finished first added 6 points to their team score second 5 and so on. 

I got the individual pies at Wal Mart and they took them out of the box, but they couldn't use their hands after that.

Messy faces abound!

Rudolph was a fun game. I made an 8 inch ribbon and glued a pompom to the end.  Everyone had to put Vaseline on their nose and see how many times they could make the pompom stick in a minute.  Tanner and Cynjyn got smart and pulled most of the string into their mouth and C ended up getting 44!  You could only use your hands to get the pompom off your nose. 

Wreath toss was where you had a minute to get as many marshmallows through a wreath and into a bowl.  You could use the door as a backstop and bounce it off there into the bowl.  Garry had made the holder out of PVC pipe and we used it for the ornament and wreath game.  We ended the night with our gift exchange and it was the first year everyone brought their own gift.  I usually end up buying them all, so that was really nice. 

And of course, we had to end the night with some photobooth fun! 

Merry Christmas Eve everyone!