Dinner at Mom's

Sunday - October 12th. First of all we woke up to the song "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas". This is a view from my back door looking South-East.

I have a couple of pictures to post, and we had a lot of people there. With as many people that fluctuate through living in and out of state - they all seem to be here in UT. Denni and Burke were there with their kids and Keri and Mike came too. We decided that it was probably the first time that we'd seen Keri since her wedding like 5 years ago.

We had a pasta bar at someone's suggestion. Jenni made these awesome meat balls! We had marinara and Alfredo sauce, and assorted pasta, and breadsticks. It was quite a meal. Matt didn't make it, but with that exception all of the regular in-state-ers were there.

We played a fun game. Simple but it works well with a large group. Basically - everyone sits in a circle and there are chairs for everyone +1. Then everyone writes their name on a slip of paper. You have everyone draw a name. They are now assigned a new name. (You can have your own name). Then you determine a target location. Usually the couch that holds 3 people works best. Teams are Men vs. Women. Object: get 3 men in a row at target location (for the men). Object for the Women - opposite, get 3 women in a row. How it works: sit in approximately a boy-girl-boy pattern. Target location starts with one guy and one girl with the "+1" seat on the target location. The person with the vacant seat to their right gets to take a turn. Simply - they state who they would like to have sit next to them. So they say: "I want Sarah to sit here" and whoever is now assigned the name of 'Sarah' sits there - even though it's really 'David'. Make sense? So the Goal (men) is still to get 'Mike', 'Neil', and 'David' on the couch - even though their names are 'Mom', 'Sarah', and 'James'. One more rule: the same person can't move twice in a row. So it's a game of memory. Try and get people off of the couch who you don't want there and try and get people on the couch that you want there. 3 went too fast for a group of 20 people so we upped it to 4 people on the couch. Sound fun - try it!