Thursday, January 8, 2009

Game Anyone?

Now I understand why Kaitlin told me after cleaning out the game closet, "We do not need ANY new games this year for Christmas." We have always been a "game playing" family. Although it seems we find less time to play games in these last few years. As I look at this pile, I'm not sure if we've ever played Are you Smarter than a 5th grader or Apples to Apples. One of my funnest game times was several years ago. My Mom and Dad had sold their house in Minneapolis and were moving up to the U.P. All 10 of my siblings and I went home for a weekend with no spouses. It was a blast! We played Balderdash and laughed until we hurt!

6 comments:

Laura Jean said...

That is quite the collection! However, I am not seeing Taboo...I'm assuming it just accidently didn't make the shot, because no collection is complete without it! ;)

Yvonne said...

our family too loves games. we played "catch phrase" at Christmastime and had an absolute blast - the more the merrier for this one. try it, you won't be disappointed, you can never have too many games.

Anonymous said...

Laura, we did at one time have Taboo but it looks like it's missing.

Yvonne, We do have Catch Phrase(I think there are more games behind the pile) and the kids have spent hours with that one.

Anonymous said...

I remember going to your Southfield house and playing Hi Ho Cherrio (I think that was the name)
Annu

Amanda Kay said...

That does look like a lot of games...too bad we didn't play any at Christmas..

Anonymous said...

I was bummed we only made it to a round or two of Speed Scrabble! It would've been fun, but that's the way it goes.

Hi Ho Cherry-O! My kids got that for Christmas last year (2007). I had to get it because it reminded me of when we were kids.