...holiday party time...

One of our traditions during Christmas week

(usually on Christmas Eve)

is to play our 'gift exchange game'...

This usually evokes hidden emotions and characteristics that we usually try to avoid throughout the rest of the year...

All in all, it is great fun as we win and exchange (volley for) gifts...

Here is how the game goes:

Everyone brings a wrapped gift to add to the stash in the middle.

(...in the beginning, Liddy tries to keep things polite...)

Two dice are passed around the circle in a pie tin...if someone rolls a 7, 11 or doubles, he/she gets to open a gift from the middle.

("see, Dayla...it's doubles...")

If a preferred gift has already been opened, then the person may 'steal' that gift leaving the 'victim' to 'steal' from someone else or open another from the middle.

(I wonder what Ethan is hiding...)

This continues until all the 'middle' gifts are gone...

(nice sox, Todd... :)

...at this point a timer is set (for a random time)

and play continues until the timer 'rings'...

When the time is up...the game is over...

...and everyone is happy....?!?

The final rule:

"ya 'git' what ya 'git'...

and ya don't throw a fit..."

The "guess who said what" Game...

Ethan makes a good model...don'tcha think?