Top Ten: Favorite Games

Sometimes in circle time we pick a top ten topic and write a list in our yearly notebook. Our first top ten list this year goes along with the question I asked a couple of posts back. Board Games. It's really hard to pick. Sometimes how fun a game is depends on who you are playing it with it. And there are some I played growing up that I don't play anymore for no real reason.

I won't share everyone's Top Ten List, but I'll put the top two favorites.

Kayla: Rummikub, Freestyle Apples to Apples

Kaleb: King of Tokyo, Tsuro (Ty just got this one for Christmas, and we played it for the first time this week. )

Jasmine: Escape the Curse of the Jungle, Tsuro

Escape is a co op game where you have to work together to escape and survive.

Tyler: King of Tokyo, too many tied for second place

Ty is the one who finds most of the new games. He watches videos about games and learns about new ones he wants to try. Lately He discovered King of  Tokyo, Get Bit, Roll for It and Tsuro this way.

Me: 

I have a hard time choosing two favorites. On one hand, I love children's games and can't wait until River and Winter are old enough to play games. Candy Land and Shoots and ladder will be the first ones.

But the games I choose most often now are:

• Rummikub
• Roll for It (another of Ty's Christmas presents)
• Yahtzee
• Dominoes
• Battleship (I played it tonight literally for the first time in about twenty years)
• Boggle
• Catch Phrase
• Tsuro
• Apples to Apples(If I'm in the mood and we have the right group)
• Sorry
• Princess UNO

I haven't played Scattegories since I got married, so that's almost 30 years. It requires a lot of people to make it fun.

Ricks' favorites are Rummikub and Yahtzz

Your turn! What are your top two, or top ten, board games? And does your list change by who you are with?

Help Me Choose part 2

Last post I asked you to help choose the best photos of Kayla. Your favorites were 6 and 10 with 4 being a close second.

Here are the photos of Jasmine. Please help me choose the best ones.

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Please leave a comment with your favorites.

Help me choose

I did a photo shoot with two of the girls. I need a good photo of both. I'll be taking more later, because I actually need to make a composite, but I need help deciding what should be included.

I'll do Kayla this post, and Jasmine next post.

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Just for fun

Another one just for fun

Love these, but no one else can be in the picture. One of these three might go on my wall though.

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 Please leave your 2 or 3 favorites in the comment section.

Christmas and Beyond

Christmas was very low key this year. We did more celebrating on Christmas Eve when the adult kids were here than we did on Christmas Day. We really spent more time playing games together than anything. Here are a few pictures of our time.

Tyler got some sort of game where you get arms and legs bitten off by a shark. It's simple and it goes fast.

I think Rummikub is our official family game. I got several used copies, but they are missing a few pieces, so when I shop for used games for my flea market shop, I keep my eye open for them. We have a complete set, and now Jessica has a complete set for her family. We also played Apples to Apples freestyle a lot. Now that they've played freestyle, they don't want to play the traditional game anymore.

River helped make the birthday cake for Jesus.

Then River had her second birthday December 30th.

 I got her a sleeping bag because they like to go camping.

 Also got her crayons, markers and a coloring book because she's starting "writing" on my papers.

It was a pretty good holiday season, but we are dealing with some issues that I'll share more about once we know what is going to happen.

One of the best things we did was a photo shoot with the girls. I'll share those photos next time. 

In the meantime, please share your family's favorite board game.