Games and New Year's

We are so fortunate to be associated with such a large circle of friends!  Many of which are now are serving in high church callings.  And to our good fortune, they seem to still like to hang out with the heathen Olsens.
On December 30 we had a game night some of our good friends.  Mont and Marilyn Parrish. Dave and Jodi Wilding, and Troy and Carol Herzog all joined Kim, Shandra, and I for a wild and crazy night of games.


We played Taboo, of course. One of our favorites.  We first played guys against girls and the guys complained the whole time about the girls' ability to read each other's minds and get the answers right.  The girls won by a landslide the first game.  The second time we decided to have the girls and guys intermingle on the teams,  It was amazing to see that the score was much closer when the girls were helping the guys!

We also played a hilarious game of the Wildings called "Telestrations".  With this game each of us were given a small spiral notebook.  On the first page there was a spot for the secret word or saying that each of received.  We wrote it down and then turned the page and passed the book to the person on the left.  The next page was blank and we had 60 seconds to draw the secret phrase from the page before, then we turned the page and passed it to the next person.  Each person then looked at the drawing and wrote down what we thought the secret phrase was by just the drawing.  Again we turned the page and passed the book.  This continued for 8 turns.  At the end we took turns showing the secret phrase and pictures and close the final page was to the first.  It was hilarious!  At one point the secret phrase was "in a pickle"  the last guess was "cow dung"!  Not even close!  

I ended up working on New Year's Eve, so after work I raced home for a quick nap before the games started again.  Cynthia was able to come up for the night!  It was so fun to see her again!  The Parrishes joined us once again for lots fun and games.


New's morning Chef Mont got up early and made us a fine breakfast of Rocky Mountain French Toast - YUMMY!


Not sure what Kim Bob is doing, but I'm sure it was important!

Friends - Kalel and Marshall
We came back to our house for another full day of game playing!  We played "A Ticket to Ride", "Catan", and we borrowed the Wilding's game of Telestration (I have to get that game!).  What hoot!

Here is an example of one of our most funny games:
It started with Leopard

One of the last drawings was this:
And the final guess was this:
It was CRAZY FUN!

Comments

Jodi said…
Thanks for hosting such a FUN party! I seriously haven't laughed that hard in forever! Telestrations was so fun to play with you guys! Oh my gosh we need to get together MORE often!!!!
Tell Johnny now it's his turn to at least show up!
January 17, 2015 at 9:03 PM
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