DRAWING 2014 to a Close :)

In years past we've played Minute to Win It.  We've danced.  Last year it was about the drama.  This year, our New's Year Eve tradition of celebrating at the home of our friends Phil and Jetta continued...with ART being the theme and focus!

The art game that brought us hours of laughs this year was Telestrations, a fabulous group game combining Pictionary and Telephone.  In this game you draw a word from a card, pass your pad, guess what word the person next to you drew, write it, pass your pad, and make the person on the other side of you draw the word you guessed.  You do this for 12 rounds until your original picture has made its way around the large group circle.

As you can imagine, hilarity ensues!  An original word like "Hearse" becomes "Barfing" (below), "China" gets interpreted as "Evolution" by way of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle" or, our favorite of the night, "Walkie-Talkies" eventually becomes "Abraham Lincoln".

Add in friends who are artistically challenged and daughters (ahem, mine) who can't guess a single word, but instead write a whole story, and the confusion grows!  Our NYE Game Testing Crew gives Telestrations another thumbs up!  This is not a competitive game.  The rules actually state that you determine who wins by asking who had fun!  In this spirit, the prize I found to send everyone home with was pencils stamped with the sparkly words, "I'm a Winner!".

Good food, good fellowship, and great laughter.  This last night of the year is becoming something we start looking forward to well before the holiday season is upon us!

Thanking God for a 2014 full of fun and friends and wishing you, Dear Loved Ones, a blessed 2015!