By show of hands, who doesn’t have some LEGO bricks lying around their house?
If you’ve got young boys, chances are high that you’ve got LEGOs as well.
With the release of ‘The Lego Movie’ this weekend we’ve got LEGO on the brain. Our son Jaden saw the movie with his friends on Saturday and came back with a big smile on his face. And yep, I’m planning to see it soon too.
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There must be a lot of Trivial Pursuit lovers in the world because there’s an excessive number of Trivial Pursuit
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Now that we’ve rolled into 2014, we’re taking a look back at the best board games published 10 years ago
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As we dive into a new year, I love to look back over the board games, card games, and party games I’ve played during the past year.
For 2013, I’ve played 125 different games!
Thanks to BoardGameGeek.com as well as the cool app for it, it’s so simple to record which board games I play. After playing a game, I’ll simply click on “Record a Play” and boom, it’s done. Then I can easily pull reports of all sorts to review the games I’ve played.
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Our family just returned from a weeklong humanitarian trip to Tijuana Mexico and it was wonderful!
We spent the week building homes and helping on other service projects to help needy families in that part of the world. Giving service is always an uplifting experience – for those on both ends of the service.
And sharing it as a family made it even more special.
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We’d like to wish you all a Merry Christmas!
We hope you enjoy time with your family as much as possible over the next week. We know at times it’s easy to take our relationships for granted. But it’s times like this that prompt us to reflect on our blessings.
And we consider our family to be one of our greatest blessings.
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Lord of the Rings: The Confrontation is one of our favorite board games! And the long-awaited reprint of the game is now available! We’re so excited – not because we’ll get another copy, but because everyone we’ve touted it to for so long can get a copy!
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
So too is the value of a board game.
Having played a ton of different board games and card games, we can attest to the fact that not all board games are created equal. Some games are so compelling they’re hard to stop playing. Other games can’t end soon enough.
The value of a board game or card game can’t be judged on price or quality of the components alone.
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Where do your board games spend most of their time?
Your answer is probably: “on a game shelf” or “in the closet”.
Most board games are found resting on game shelves and in closets. That’s where they go to sleep off the exertion from being played.
And that’s okay.
It’s best to keep most games stored away in their boxes. As much as they love to be played, at the end of the day, they like to keep their own little family (components) safely tucked in.
But that doesn’t mean EVERY game needs to be put away at the end of play.
Read moreAs we mentioned in our last post, earlier this year we heard about a fantastic website: The Art of Manliness.
As the name implies, it’s a website dedicated to men. However, the thing that impressed us the most when we heard about it, is the dedication the site has to true manhood – honorable manhood.
The creators of the site didn’t like the way most magazines and sites focused on men delved too much into salacious material. They realized that the world needs more focus on things that build good character.
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