Game Night

Growing up, my family would play games on Sunday night. I LOVED spending that time together and continued with game night when I was single at the Y. When Ty and I were first married, we would play strategy games a lot together and then later we really got into movie and music trivia games like sceneit, shout about movies, and pop culture trivial pursuit. Now that Carter is getting older, I've found that he really likes memory games. I have a game called Husker Du that I got when I was in the fifth grade. My fifth grade class had Husker Du competitions every week for fast finishers. I LOVED the game. It's a memory game with small pictures that you can turn to change into a whole new set of pictures when you're finished. I started playing it with Carter a few weeks ago and found that he's actually really good. He has an amazing memory and tied me the first time playing. Last night, we pulled out some fun family games like CandyLand, Husker Du, and a Provo puzzle and held our own little game night. It was so fun! Carter helped us move our pieces by counting out the colors (he loves to count EVERYTHING...it's his new fun thing). Dad came out with the win, but it was almost a last minute upset by me...oh well. We started the 550 piece puzzle a little before bedtime, so Carter was only awake while we completed the outside frame of "Provo." By our bedtime, Ty and I had finished the puzzle. I was quite amazed at how good Tyson was at puzzles. I could only find the pieces that had obvious things like words or people, but Tyson got all the buildings, bushes, and trees. IT was fun to see all the little details about Provo in the puzzle. Our old stomping grounds....hmm. Here's to many more game nights to come