The Ballerina and the Handyman (Jen and Dave Wilcox)
The CNA and the guitar shop employee (Summer and Chris Warmoth)
The jazz choir performer and the hunter (Wendi and Bret Reynolds)
The nerd (he's wearing Chris' shirt that Chris currently wears) and the pageant queen (John and Mimi)
The ballerina and the homeboy (Ashely and Jake Tracy)
The cheerleader and the letter man (Jennifer and Mike Maddock).
The super broken out teenager and the BYU football fan...so I get to explain more on this one. Chris used some melted wax to make large zits on his face. Then he colored them with skin foundation and topped them off with red and white paing to make them really juicy whiteheads. How disgusting! The awesome part is that shirt he is wearing is a high school original, it is almost dust...he still wears it all the time. It used to be a really dark blue color. I have only ever been a true fan of any team my brother's played on. However, it was fun to hold season tickets when I was a BYU student and go with a bunch of friends to the home games. Unfortunately, back in the day, I didn't do a lot of face painting...because I painted while looking in the mirror and wound up with "UYB" awesomely painted on my face. SWEET.
The Disney enthusiast and the former BYU golfer (Carol and Gary Colvin)
Safeway employee and homes (Anne and Dillon Eugenio)
Track and field runner and an ex-Marine (Stephanie and Nick Mondrut)
Amanda and her husband didn't get the dress up memo.
She used to have short hair (that is a wig) and he was a Boy Scout. (Jennifer and Jeff Frink)
David and Uxua are from Spain...he was in the military and she was a nurse there.
We played a game using baby pictures from each person who came. It was fun, some people got every single one right!
We also played a game where the women were all in a row and the only thing showing was our toes. The men had to identify which lady belonged to them...just from the toes. Some dudes did not win any points on this game. Chris definitely knows my toes.
After that, we played a different kind of white elephant. This is the game people were still talking about the next week...it's just so fun, in spite of not sounding that fun. So we played this like five years ago at a Christmas party with another group of friends. You can only play once, because in this game, the women come with a white elephant gift all wrapped up and the men just don't really pay attention to this...standard procedure right? So the women are all in on the joke that the gift they brought is something from home that their husband treasures that they would NOT want to be given away. Ideally, this is something believable, like the first time we played, I wrapped up some really ugly ties that Chris has of his grandpa's. Of course they are meaningful to him, and I wouldn't ever give them away, but I do complain if he tries to wear them...so it was believable to him that I might think I wanted to get rid of them. So there is one gift per couple, and the dudes just really don't question much about what was brought if the wives don't say much about it. IT IS SO FUNNY to see this all unfold, because the guys are seriously sweating the loss of their prized possessions...and the wives are seriously in the dog house. I heard one super nice man tell his wife, "If my dad finds out that you gave that away, he will disown you." AKA, "that hunting knife is more important to my dad than you are." As someone in the know, it is just basically non-stop fun, as you see something opened and then scan the crowd for the ticked off dude whispering in his wife's ear and waving his arms around wildly. Knowing what you know now...these pictures need only really vague narration...
Some of the dudes were really excited about their score...even at the expense of their friends...look at John and Dillon eyeing Dave's valuable comic collection carefully preserved in plastic covers...they look pretty excited...what about Anne...she no doubt is feeling Jen's pain...because Dave is totally freaking out (but also trying to save face a little bit, I mean, he isn't a toddler...the inner conflict is eating him alive...
"Is that my grandma's coin collection?"
"I WANT MY JEANS!"
"Is that my Pearl Jam concert t-shirt?"
"Who is Pearl Jam, anyway, honey?"
"Honey, I'm trying not to make a scene, but that t-shirt is not something you just give away."
"Those are my ______ medals! They only give one of those to one soldier each year on each base..."
I like Jake's expression (right). "What is he going to do? His wife just gave away his favorite (and expensive) golf shirt."
"This hat was worn by a dude that paid $60k to kill a polar bear?" For the animal loving reader: Apparently, the Inuit tribe is issued a certain number of permits to kill polar bears for their livelihood each year, and they sell the permits and the hunters go make the kill and return the whole bear to the tribe for their consumption.
After all the games were over with we just turned on some tunes and had a little dance party on the dance floor. Chris and I hid behind the DJ station, which was a super crazy, state of the art mixer with a ton of super easy and amazing options. It was so fun...even if it is a tough job to play music that everyone will be excited about...I thought it was fun to break out some of the oldies...think about Bel Biv Devoe, folks.
There is that swagger again, woah...that's a sexy, pimple infested high schooler!
Jake and Ashley at the DJ station.
