The women won the trivia cup this year. Let’s get that bit of information out of the way, shall we?
This year’s party was going to be tricky to organize with Max’s 1st birthday party in the afternoon on the same day. We managed to get 90% of the party set up on the Friday night before and then lo and behold, it turns out that people were sick at Max’s party so we decided not to attend with Sierra. Ah well, we shall catch him on his second birthday party!
The party was a great success this year and of course my plan to not stay up too late failed miserably and I believe I went to bed around 3am and woke up around 7am with Sierra. That’s what I get for having a few more drinks with Rob! Highlights of the night included chatting about Raspberry Pi’s downstairs with the boys, playing some vintage Nintendo and realizing that Alan is a master at Super Smash TV, and the card blowing activity went over well I believe. With any trivia challenge, it gets a little heated at times and there was one instance where I miscounted the number of correct items that the boys had provided for an activity and that unleashed Hell on Earth. No matter, we all emerged unscathed!
I can’t tell if Sierra was more interested in Mina’s glasses or his beard.
James showing me the ropes on proper baby holding.
Holly demonstrating proper blowing technique. The goal of the game was to blow the card to the edge of the table so it would hang over and not fall to the floor.
Shannon helping Maureen out with the task at hand.
This year there was no gift exchange so the losers of the trivia cup ended up with a snowman plate…
…and the Jesus clock! Turns out that Mina’s mom who was visiting from Egypt found this clock and hung it up in his kitchen for the month of July!
Rob was very enthused to receive the snowman plate again.
As always, we generally forget to get a group shot so we managed to remember to sneak one in when a bunch of people were on their way out around midnight.
Merry Christmas to all!