We recently had our cousins Brittany and Neal over for a fun evening of dinner and games. After a delicious meal of hamburger pie and biscuits, we busted out one of the few games that Eric and I actually own: The Game of Life. Before this occasion Eric and I had played the game a handful of times before, but generally with just the two of us (yeah, we're lame like that). It was a lot of fun, especially since there was a lot more "strategy" playing with four people and funny things kept happening. Like the fact that Brittany and I each hit almost every "It's a boy", "It's a girl" and "Twins" square on the board. Our little cars couldn't even hold all our kids but we tried valiantly to seat them all. Neal ended up with a lot of kids as well and somehow Eric didn't end up with any. The funniest thing is when we started the game, we joked that the point of the game/winning should be based on who has the most kids, not on who gets the most money (what a good moral this game has). Here's a picture of cars at the end of the game:
Another fun aspect that came up with more players was fighting/competing for the salary cards. We had both the highest salary ($100,000) and the lowest ($20,000) in play and they changed hands so many times it was ridiculous. We thought it was particularly funny that Eric who was the only one NOT to go to college kept rotating salaries between $90,000 and $100,000 while us poor college grads were getting our trashes kicked. And the fact that Brittany hadn't even graduated from college yet and she'd already won the Nobel Peace Prize. Yeah, she's good like that. :)
On another note, in our actual lives Logan just hit a milestone: he rolled over by himself! Okay, Eric doesn't actually think it counts because it happened while Logan was laying on our bed and he thinks indents helped him out, but I can't discredit Logan's achievement. He started on his back and slowly ended up on his stomach and that counts as rolling over in my book. Sadly his left arm was caught under his body and he couldn't pull it out so he decided to try and gnaw it off... ;) Here's Logan moments after the event:
Another fun aspect that came up with more players was fighting/competing for the salary cards. We had both the highest salary ($100,000) and the lowest ($20,000) in play and they changed hands so many times it was ridiculous. We thought it was particularly funny that Eric who was the only one NOT to go to college kept rotating salaries between $90,000 and $100,000 while us poor college grads were getting our trashes kicked. And the fact that Brittany hadn't even graduated from college yet and she'd already won the Nobel Peace Prize. Yeah, she's good like that. :)
On another note, in our actual lives Logan just hit a milestone: he rolled over by himself! Okay, Eric doesn't actually think it counts because it happened while Logan was laying on our bed and he thinks indents helped him out, but I can't discredit Logan's achievement. He started on his back and slowly ended up on his stomach and that counts as rolling over in my book. Sadly his left arm was caught under his body and he couldn't pull it out so he decided to try and gnaw it off... ;) Here's Logan moments after the event:
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Amy is jealous that we don't play games like that. She told me to get Life... Did she say get Life or get a life? Oh, she said get a life. How do you like that? If I'm a good boy next time we are hanging out, can I play life with you guys? How's the boy? Tell him his Uncle Samuel said hi.
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