Telephone Pictionary is, at this point, the only thing I have in the Play section of my web site. It's a fun game involving drawing pictures, figuring out what they mean and writing it down, and then having someone else draw what that represents, and so on, until the meaning is hilariously twisted. Always a fun group game, and we played it this year.
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Carina is playing, and Catherine is amused at the bottom right corner of the...(more)
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Catherine and the other person in red are looking up and to their right, while...(more)
Of course what party would be compete without food. People tend to bring a variety of things, in addition to the good things provided.
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I did not take this picture (I think Stephanie gets credit), and I've no idea...(more)
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Carina's door. I found it amusing. She's got a way before she's a teenage, at...(more)
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Catherine demonstrates the making of the origami crane, which will be cast into...(more)
A few years back, Catherine and Cabot started a tradition involving a nice fire outside, right around midnight. Guests are invited to write down something from the ending year that they want to let go. And then they write down something they want (to achieve) in the new year. Before midnight, they throw the crane into the fire and let it fly away up upon the flames. At midnight, they put the second paper in to let the words fly free.
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Cabot tests the fire with his hand. Actually, there's a sequence of pictures...(more)
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It's always easy to find the Dison household, as the front yard is a festival...(more)
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Now it was my turn, and I gave Allie the camera to take a spooky picture of me....(more)
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And then a "bat-shit crazy" one without my glasses here (I wanted to avoid the...(more)
The other Dison tradition is playing the game Attacker-Defender shortly after midnight. Normally, we play in the street, but it was snowy, sloppy, and icy enough that we played in a rather confined area in the driveway before it reaches the sidewalk.
The rules are simple. Before starting, everyone (silently) picks one person to be their attacker and one person to be their defender. And then when the game starts, they move (by walking) to place their defender between their attacker and them. Of course, everyone else is doing the same thing and chaos, mayhem, and hilarity ensue.
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People move around, trying to align themselves, while screwing up the plans of...(more)
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After a while, it dawned on me that as I moved, everyone kind of moved parallel...(more)
Bananagrams was another game we played, after midnight.
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Allie had some good words. I must admit though, I'm doubtful about words that...(more)
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Catherine made words like 'damnation', 'rabble', 'wheelie', and 'shimmering'. ...(more)
