The party idea actually came to Betsy and Anna as they were
opening their Christmas gifts for each other.
The look on their faces told me that they had a good idea just waiting to be unleashed and put into action. Since many of Alatheia’s friends wanted to see her before her departure to KS, Anna and Betsy’s going away party sounded like the perfect plan.
New Year’s Day looked to be the best day for an evening get together. Sadly, several of the intended guests couldn’t make it so we ended up with a small, yet energized crowd.
The first game, called Celebrities, consisted of two teams and lots of slips of paper. Every other person belonged on team one or team two. Everyone got three pieces of paper on which they wrote a person, a place and a thing.
We told everyone to get specific. Boy! Did they ever get specific. One of them wrote “in my right red shoe.”
Each team had to guess exactly what was on the paper. The first round started with a person who pulled out a piece of paper and tried to describe the phrase without using any of the words on the paper. He or she pulled out and described as many as they could in 30 seconds.
Then the container of papers was handed on to the next player on the opposite team. For the second round you had to silently act out the aforeguessed phrases. During the third round you could only say one word to describe the phrase. Even if that word was “umm” you couldn’t take it back.
By then your teammates had enough of a grasp of what was in the basket so they could guess correctly. After the game, the points from each round were tallied up with the high score winning.
The look on their faces told me that they had a good idea just waiting to be unleashed and put into action. Since many of Alatheia’s friends wanted to see her before her departure to KS, Anna and Betsy’s going away party sounded like the perfect plan.
New Year’s Day looked to be the best day for an evening get together. Sadly, several of the intended guests couldn’t make it so we ended up with a small, yet energized crowd.
The first game, called Celebrities, consisted of two teams and lots of slips of paper. Every other person belonged on team one or team two. Everyone got three pieces of paper on which they wrote a person, a place and a thing.
We told everyone to get specific. Boy! Did they ever get specific. One of them wrote “in my right red shoe.”
Each team had to guess exactly what was on the paper. The first round started with a person who pulled out a piece of paper and tried to describe the phrase without using any of the words on the paper. He or she pulled out and described as many as they could in 30 seconds.
Then the container of papers was handed on to the next player on the opposite team. For the second round you had to silently act out the aforeguessed phrases. During the third round you could only say one word to describe the phrase. Even if that word was “umm” you couldn’t take it back.
By then your teammates had enough of a grasp of what was in the basket so they could guess correctly. After the game, the points from each round were tallied up with the high score winning.
Tacos and ice cream were the main fare of the evening which we enjoyed in between games. Since school was starting up the next day for
many of the people present, it was not a late evening.
We had time for one more game...Signals. This one was played in the Beasley’s loft where it was a little cooler. People were dozing off in the toasty, warm living room in between turns, and we wanted all the players awake and alert for Signals.
To play Signals, everyone sat in a circle with the person who was ‘it’ standing in the middle. Every player had a signal…for example tapping on their nose or shrugging their shoulders. After all the participants learned each other’s signals, the person in the middle closed their eyes, counted to ten, opened them again and started guessing who had the signal. We had many lucky guessers in our crowd who would open their eyes and point right to the unfortunate person who had the signal. The person in the middle had to wait a little in between guesses otherwise the signal never got passed. Once they picked the right person, they were no longer ‘it,’ and they started the signal off as the new person in the middle counted to ten. Our group had a few false starts where several people thought they received the signal when they hadn't so there were multiple signals going around. Besides the confusion and debates over who had the signal, we had a great evening laughing and spending time with Alathiea before she headed off for her new job in Kansas. Love you, Alatheia. We miss you and will be praying for you.
We had time for one more game...Signals. This one was played in the Beasley’s loft where it was a little cooler. People were dozing off in the toasty, warm living room in between turns, and we wanted all the players awake and alert for Signals.
To play Signals, everyone sat in a circle with the person who was ‘it’ standing in the middle. Every player had a signal…for example tapping on their nose or shrugging their shoulders. After all the participants learned each other’s signals, the person in the middle closed their eyes, counted to ten, opened them again and started guessing who had the signal. We had many lucky guessers in our crowd who would open their eyes and point right to the unfortunate person who had the signal. The person in the middle had to wait a little in between guesses otherwise the signal never got passed. Once they picked the right person, they were no longer ‘it,’ and they started the signal off as the new person in the middle counted to ten. Our group had a few false starts where several people thought they received the signal when they hadn't so there were multiple signals going around. Besides the confusion and debates over who had the signal, we had a great evening laughing and spending time with Alathiea before she headed off for her new job in Kansas. Love you, Alatheia. We miss you and will be praying for you.
Hope things are going well, Alatheia. We'll try to keep your parents busy so they won't miss you quite so much.
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