Christmas, 2005. We are spending it with my side of the family. We play a game for the gift exchange due to the enormousity of our family. We simply call it 'The Dice Game'. We each buy 1-2 gifts (gags, serious, whatever), wrap it, and throw it in a big pile. We then circle the pile and start rolling a pair of dice (we normally have about 3 pairs in pie tins), we start out with one roll per pair, and if we get doubles, we then select a gift from the pile. We do this until the pile is gone. Then we set a timer and start rolling the dice again. Only this time when we get pairs, we 'steal' gifts from other peoples pile. This goes on for a set time (15-30 minutes). Every year there's a certain gift or two that everyone fights for.. more specifically during the 'stealing' session. This particular year, it was a big box wrapped in green Care Bear wrapping paper. When the timer buzzed, Shanna was the one that ended up with it. Since everyone wants to know what they were fighting for, she had to open that one up before anyone else opened their gifts. Inside that box, was another box. And inside that box was
a book labeled 'The Duct Tape Bound Tomb (big misspelling by me) . Everyone laughed.. Ha ha ha. Then Shanna
opened it . When she put the book down, I was on my knee and popped the question. It was awesome, because all the females in my family were crying. =D
Oh, and in case you were wondering how I was able to coordinate the timer with Shanna ending up with that gift.. My uncle was the only other person that knew the plan, and he ran the timer. So after awhile of the gift bouncing around person to person.. when Shanna got it, he adjusted the timer to go off.
Thanks to TheViking88 for the sig!!