My dad comes up with a code for the gifts every year. Originally, i think it was because some of us (Kristin) would spend hours looking at all the gifts, and figuring out what they were based on who they were for. So the code was made to diguise who each gift was for. The game is then to figure out the code as the evening goes on. This time I think we did quite well... without any hints from mom, we (I) were(was) able to figure out the code within 3 or 4 gifts. (I was given gifts labeled "New Jersey", "Thomas Jefferson", and "Olney". New Jersey was the 3rd state in the Union (and thus the 3rd Quarter released), Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd president, and Olney was the road we lived on in Kalamazoo... the 3rd place my parents lived after getting married. I was the 3rd child born in the family, and that's why those gifts went to me. Other labels included "Courtney Cox Arquette" (Amy, because she's the 2nd child, and Courtney is the 2nd in alphabetical order of the Friends cast), "birds" (Kristin, as the song goes "4 calling birds". There was also a "hens" and "doves") Other labels referenced the 10 plagues, 12 sons of Jacob, the Kings of the Old Testament, husbands of Elizabeth Taylor, Empires of the Ancient world, etc.