The Annual Hadley Christmas Extravaganza

***so click on this picture.

Q says you can always tell who has your back by seeing who shows up to your party in the middle of a freakish, demonic, insanely monstrous snow storm. As for us, we have exactly 12 such friends.

Last night we held Q's yearly yule tide bash and it was, in his words, "a smashing success," despite the fact that two thirds of our invitees were snowed out. Pretty rare to be blasted back home by snow in SGU, but it happened. We kept getting broken up calls of people turning around in the blizzard and heading for a boring, but safe evening back in their living rooms. The survivors... or shall we say, risk takers of the group participated in a slew of events that will be documented and memorialized for the masses who missed out below:

First item of business: Play in the snow! Nick, Bryce, Q, Julie, and Sarah rigged up the sled and snow skate to the four wheeler and took some rides for the records. I heard something about the four wheeler pulling the sled through the snow instead of over the snow... cold, covered in snow, snow down coat, four wheeler not stopping.... but that's about all I could make out.


BELOW: The "in" crowd... and when I say "in"- I mean INSIDE! Dude- it was freezing outside... and quite frankly, after driving up in the beastly weather, I think most of us needed some detox time in front of the fire relating sliding and spinning stories.

Next: Choice of Taco Soup or White Chicken Chili

Followed by: Guess Who game complete with buzzer system on loan from SCMS. Critical information obtained in this game: Someone sat on a pencil the painful way(OUCH), someone wipes cheeto fingers on their socks, someone had a really rough day unsuccessfully making it to the restroom... twice, and Bryce watches Hannah Montana (this last fact became critical information later in the evening).


THEN: Our "Prohibition" game from our cancelled 1920's party. We voted on our favorite root beer and, let me tell you, Barks came in dead last! Good thing we had Codey ready to calculate the scores... again, how did that work? "Confuscious!" Which brings me to SILENT FOOTBALL... but I'm getting ahead of myself... Let's not forget the GUESS THAT CHRISTMAS MOVIE QUIZ


TIME FOR THE GIFT EXCHANGE:
...in which THIS BEAUTY stole the envy of everyone
(I never thought anyone would out-do Q's boot lamp from 2002, but he did it again. Tighty Whity purse? Q, where do you get this stuff? His mom helped out with the technical aspects).



...and then BRYCE (who, as you recall, watches Hannah Montana) STOLE THIS delux gift package from Nick!


Onto the classics: the ANIMAL game and SILENT FOOTBALL. Clip soon to follow as words cannot adequately express:

"walrus-ssssss,ssssss-chomp,chomp-bzzzzzzt,bzzzzzzt-ROAR"

Oh the DARES... Somehow, so much more fun in college, yet still mildly entertaining!


So sorry to have missed some of you. I laughed so hard my stomach hurts today. Upon request: Valentine's Day party to follow.

***Thank you to everyone
who risked their very lives to attend!!!!
Q said it was one for the books (that's good).