Tremayne's Christmas Party!

A couple of weekends ago we drove up to Conway for Tremayne's company Christmas party.  He invited us along with some other people from Kris' office.  His parties are pretty well known and we have heard about them for a while.  He owns Harris Concrete.  His party was for all his employees, lots of his family, and some friends.  They served bbq, had a dj, gave away some awards/bonuses, and played Let's Make A Deal.  

The kids were excited to get to see Tremayne's kids again. Here's Layton with Trey.

Tremayne is a mess.  He knows how to crack a joke and make you laugh.  He also knows how to treat his employees.  He has been really successful with his business and totally believes in sharing his success with others--passing on the blessings.  So, that is what he did at his party.

Lincoln getting his groove on.  Ha!

It took Hannah a while but she finally got out there with Tremere.

Like I said, at his party Tremayne likes to give back to people.  One of his ways of doing this (and to have a good time) is to play Let's Make A Deal.  He taped about 25 numbered envelopes to the wall.  When you walked into the party, you were given a ticket with a number on it.  Even the kids got tickets.  Then, throughout the night (in between awards, eating, etc) he would pick someone to come and draw a number out of his sack.  He would usually talk about that person--tell how he knew them and compliment them in some way.  Then, the person who had the matching number would come up and pick an envelope off the wall.  He would immediately tell them that he would give them x dollars for the envelope.  They would have to decide if it was worth the risk or not.  The envelopes were filled with $500, $300, $250, $200, $150, $100, $75, and $50.  There were several of each amount.  So, you just didn't know what you were going to get. It was so fun to watch people and their reactions.  Tremayne would bargain with them sometimes a time or two.

The whole night Hannah would get so excited when they would draw a number and just hoped that hers would be drawn.  Well, surprisingly it was!!!  I could not believe it.  It was the funniest thing!!!  What was even funnier was that as soon as she realized it was her number, she marched right up to Tremayne with her ticket.  There were probably close to 300 people there, so I was shocked that she was so bold.  He just dyed laughing!!!

She picked her envelope off the wall.  He asked her if her daddy had talked to her about money.  She said no.  Ha!  Then, he asked her something about the most money she'd ever had.  She immediately said, "I have $44.80 in my piggy bank."  It was the cutest thing!!!  The funny thing is that we had just counted all her money in her piggy bank a few days before so she knew to the penny!  I had told her that she would have to buy most of an American Girl doll if she wanted one.  That is why she wanted to know how much money she had.  Anyway, everyone thought she was so cute.  Tremayne told her that he would give her $200 for her envelope.  She immediately said, "I'll take it!!"  Hahaha!!!  Kris and I were laughing so hard--along with the whole room.  So, Tremayne had her open her envelope.

It had $250 in it!!!  He told her that because she was so sweet, he was going to let her have the whole $250.  It was hysterical.  We know he said $200 because of who she was and it was so kind of him to do that.  At the start of the night, he had told everyone that when they got money they needed to tip the dj and tip his grandma.  He had two cups next to the dj table for the tips.  His grandma just recently lost her husband and he was trying to do something nice for her (as well as be funny).  So, Kris told Hannah to put $20 each in the two cups for tips.

That left her with $210!!  Now I looked over at Lincoln and he was a little sad because his number hadn't been called.  I mouthed to Kris something about trying to get Hannah to give Lincoln some of her money.  He whispered something to her and she immediately went over to Lincoln and handed him a $100 bill.

LOVE his reaction.  He was so happy!

Kris and I were super proud of Hannah for being so willing to share.  It was really neat.  She was so excited because she knew she now had enough money to get her American Girl doll.

A few minutes later Tremayne called Kris up to give him a plaque.  He called the award the "Making Sure Our Checks Don't Bounce Award".  Ha!  Since Kris is the Controller for Cone Construction and he's such good friends with Tremayne, he has been good to make sure Tremayne gets paid for work they do on their projects in a timely manner.  They work a lot together and have just become really neat friends.

We had a great time at the party.  It was quite the experience.  It was a treat to see Tremayne's generosity and appreciation for people.  We have really been blessed by the friendship we have with the Harris'--in more ways than one!!  :-)