Games & Giggles

While we were in Utah over Easter weekend, we had an evening of group games. We had such a great time playing with family and laughing for hours!!!

The first game was a competitive Blokus (we pronounce it Blow-kus, Josiah says it's Block-us). The night before Easter, Mom & Tawna & Liz & I played multiple rounds and laughed and laughed because it was so funny trying to teach mom how to play!!! On Easter night, we played 3 rounds with everyone to determine the championship round players: Josh, Ammon, Josiah, and Tawna (sidenote, Micah placed 5th). First they played a lightning round and then a regular round before Josiah was deemed the grand champion.
The second game was the "bag game". You have to bend over, without the use of your hands, to bite off a piece of the brown paper bag. If you fall over, you're out. After biting into the bag, you rip off a piece where you bit, and the game continues to the next player. We played several rounds. It was funny to watch the taller guys, Josh and Ben, squat and contortion their bodies to reach the shrinking bag! Ultimately, the top players were Jonah, Tawna, Tabbi, and Josiah. After placing the bag below a step to make it more challenging, the only players to reach it were Jonah and Tabbi for a 2-way tie!!!
The third game was the marshmallow-stuffing "chubby bunny" game. You stuff your cheeks with 5 marshmallows at a time and have to say the words "chubby bunny" without marshmallows coming out of your mouth. Josh and Josiah and Liz were masters at this game. After Liz lost it, Josiah and Josh went head-to-head for several rounds until Josh became the winner with 200 marshmallows in his mouth!!! This was a big feat for Josh, because he absolutely HATES marshmallows--he refuses to eat them or eat anything with marshmallows in it! But since my mom offered a monetary reward for the winner, he was willing and determined to do it for that reason alone!!!

I had such a fun time with my family!!! I love spending time laughing with people I love, so for me, it was the perfect ending to the Easter weekend!!!