Marshall

My memory of playing games is when we all played Loaded Questions for one of the first times in St George. It had to have been 2006 or '07.  The question asked for something that all of the guys quickly saw as an opportunity to answer in a perverted fashion, to which we all obliged. It was funnier and funnier each time you realized that someone answered the same as you. But I remember really losing it when we realized that one of the girls (Lindsey) also answered the same way. We couldn't believe that any of the girls we as bad as us!

Cynthia

Dad and I began playing Gin Rummy when we were first married. I always liked playing word games like Boggle and Scrabble. Scattegories came next. We played card games with the kids  it seems like every Sunday night. It was a good way to spend the Sabbath and promote family unity. When Haley and Ian came along we had to find games that could appeal to the younger two. We played "Smurf on your neighbor" and "7 Eleven".

 Later,"The Great Dalmuti" was introduced to us by our neighbors, that calls for a King who is the Great Dalmuti and during their round in the Kings seat they get to pronounce some commands such as, whenever you play a 5 the boys have to do a 'Disco Dance' or sing, 'I am a Little Teapot". I find it interesting that a couple of the boys really enjoyed heckling and singing and trying to disrupt and irritate the girls sometimes...the girls were more serious players and hated waiting for their brothers to finally make a play in a hand. 

One of my favorite memories is when Eldon, Haley, Ian and I were playing a dice game that as you rolled them you ha to create words out of the pictures that were posted on a particular side of the die. Once Eldon rolled a stomach and dance and he came up with the word Belly dance. In that round he had to demonstrate what that was. So he grabbed his belly and jiggled it up and down. I will never forget how hard the kids laughed because obviously dad didn't know how to properly do a belly dance at all.

Eldon

One of the favorite game night memories were on Sunday nights, we would gather in the extended family room to watch a Disney or church movie.  Invariably this evening would turn into a wrestling match between dad and children. It would usually start by me taking my shoes off and trying to relax on the couch.  One of the children usually Britt, Joe, Lance would try and sneak up and try to pull off my socks.  The commotion that would occur following that was usually quite exhilarating and the kinds would try every ingenious way they could to distract Dad so one of the others could get his socks off.  It was on a rare occasion that they were able to accomplish that feat.  Haley at the time was probably 3 or 4, and she would call it , " lets try to be feet Dad"  That would usually get us laughing.

Lindsay

A fun game memory I have is playing Bananagram with the family. Haley and I struggled against everyone else in the game. Especially Eldon, Lance and Cynthia. They seemed to win every round. Haley and I couldn’t seem to beat them, no matter how hard we tried. I could not believe the types of words that they could come up with. Compared to my simple words-cat, are, rag.etc. I have a lot to learn from all of you and your big words. Although I got my butt handed to me each round, I have a great memory of that game and the laughs we had while playing.                       -Lindsay

Ian

Mine is I remember playing banana grams on new years eve. Me and Haley were having a blast but I was kinda getting mad because she kept beating me at it then we just kept playing! When we got home we went and bought the game and played for the rest of the day while listening to Christmas music

Lance

Game Night story- Story of me, joe, and britt. We would watch the show supermarket sweep. Where you try to put as much food from a supermarket into your cart in a certain amount of time. so one day we decided to pretend to do this in our pantry in provo. I dont really remember who won but I remember doing that and having fun.

Brittany

November 9, 13

Brittany Hooper

The theme is game night:

I remember being a little kid and we would always play cards as a family.   I think that it was on Sunday evenings but I don’t really remember.  The one we always would play was 7 up.  Rook cards, the person with a 7 on the right side of the dealer would go first.  Then we would all play.  Up to 14 down to 1.  It always helped the little kids in learning their numbers and it was a strategy game so lance really liked it.   The fun thing was that everyone from Ian on up could play.