The Koehn Family: Ramos Christmas Eve Party 2007

Every Christmas Eve Lolo and Lola like to put together a big Christmas party for the whole family. This year it was at our house again and Lola had planned all her fun games for us to play. First was the money jars. She puts together money jars for the adults and kids where we have to guess how much money is in the jar. It is a very hard game since you have no idea how much money is in there. Plus if you guess over the amount you are automatically out of the running. Daddy has said in all the 9 years he has been with Mommy, he has not won the money jar once! Poor Daddy, I guess he is just not a very good guesser! After everyone arrived we had dinner. It was all very good food! Lola Ayette made pork Adobo which everyone LOVES! It is our families favorite Filipino dish! Lola Li made puncit, Mommy made her green bean casserole, Auntie Missy made corn bread and regular bread. Auntie Tesa brought pop, and everyone else brought lots of desserts especially cookies! My Auntie Olivia makes the best cookies and snacks! She is a VERY good baker! After we ate Lola went straight to the games. For us little ones she had us sing a song and if we did we would get money. Both me and Nicholas sang Jingle Bells. TJ sang Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. All the kids sang a song except for Maria and Noah. They were both too shy to sing. After that we played our Mean Santa game. Every family buys a gift for $20 and we play our game. This year was the best year because people actually stole from each other. Here is how the game works. We put all the family names in bowl and we pick one out. The first name that is picked gets to pick from the pile of gifts. They open it and after that it is up for stealing if another family wants it. So the following families that are picked either gets to steal from the gifts that are open or pick from the pile of presents. So really you want your name to be one of the last ones to be picked. You can only get stolen from 3 times and the 4th gift that you pick is your to keep. It was a good game this year because everyone was stealing from each other. When we have played in the past we wouldn't steal because the kids were younger and they would get upset if their gift was stolen. Only Anthony got upset this year, but he got over it pretty quickly. After that Lola had her game for the adults. Every year she imitates the latest game on TV. In the past it has been Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, Wheel Of Fortune, Price Is Right, and last year was Deal or No Deal. This year was Don't Forget The Lyrics. It was great. She picked Christmas songs so Mommy thought it was going to be easy, but when it was her and Daddy's turn she didn't even know the song they had! Thanks goodness Daddy knew the song and the Lyrics! They ended up winning $60 in that game. After that game was done Lola announced the winners of the Money Jar games. First was the kids jar. The amount in it was $39 and I won the money jar! Daddy had told me to guess $39 & he was right! Well I guess he guessed one right in his 9 years with Mommy! Now for the adult Money Jar......Total in that one was $89! And Mommy won that one! It was a Koehn sweep! We were all excited! Daddy right away said we could buy the Wii Guitar Hero with the winnings. We all got addicted to that game while we were in Oklahoma for Thanksgiving. After that it was time to open gifts. It was a mad house! Mommy wasn't really able to take a lot of pictures because there was so much going and and she was having too much fun video taping. She did manage to take a few though. I hope you enjoy and Merry Christmas! Thanks to all my aunties, Uncles and Lolos and Lolas for all your gifts!