THE GARDOCKI FAMILY: Super Hero New Years

This year marked our 10th annual costumed New Year’s Party. The theme for the party was "Super Heroes".

Jay used this photo to show all the traits of a super hero. Throughout the evening, we played several games that utilized these traits. The goal was to find out who was the greatest superhero of all time.

The turnout this year was a bit on the low side, but we still had a great time. The guests included:

The Davis’

The Derstein's

The Defazio's

The Michalak's

The Shank's

The Schreier's

Mike Burn and Shannon Kearney

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And Us.

The kids also got dressed up and played in rooms throughout the house.

While we waited for evertone to arrive, we enjoyed some super hero food.

Before the games started, the guests enjoyed some social time.

The first game was called Toddler Theater and it tested the traits: Intelligent/Earns Respect. Jay recorded his nieces and nephew saying 20 lines from super hero movies. These recordings were played and the guests had to guess the name of the movie.

The next game was called “Ice Toes Challenge” and it tested the traits: Athletic/Has a Weakness. Jay filled a baby pool with several bags of ice, 100 marbles and water. Each guest was given 1 minute to remove as many marbles as possible from the tub, using only their toes.

Check out Amy's record time.

The kids even had an opportunity to play.

The next game tested the traits: Determined/Uses gadgets/Has a goal. The guests were broken into groups. The goal of this game was to remove a cork from a wine bottle using the items: Popsicle sticks, tape, paperclips, scissors, rope, clothespin, cup filled with a small amount of H2O, screwdriver, straws, and toothpicks. The only rule was that they could not break the bottle or damage the cork in any way. They were given 15 minutes to complete the task.

This was the moment that the first group successfully removed the cork.

The next game was played using the game Lightning Reaction Revenge and it tested the traits: Strong/Brave/Special Powers. Jay had purchased this game several months ago and was looking forward to seeing it in action. A bracket was filled out and each super hero went head to head. To start each round, the center button of the game was pressed. The game made an eerie sound which continued until the sound stopped and the light turned from red to green. The last player to press the button received an electric shock. Also, if they pressed the button too early, they also received a shock.

Congratulation to the winner, Dave Defazio!

The last game tested the trait: Role Model. The guests were given 15 minutes using only Playdoh to create a model of anything Superhero-ish. The results were pretty cool.

Everyone voted and the best model was created by Pete Shank.

The last voting of the evening was to find out who were Super King and Super Queen. After the votes were tallied, the winners were Sarah Davis as “Mange” and Shann Davis as “Absorbo”.

Finally, after all of the tokens from all of the games were counted, the winner, and the greatest superhero of all time was discovered. Congratulations to Shann Davis.