How the Men Spend LOTS of Time

They play THIS....

But of course we need THIS.

AND now THIS, from Father's Day!!
We just hope, at the end of the game, that they are all smiling AND talking to each other!

Bilby men tend to be a BIT competitive!!!

Five Little Monkeys

One of Chloe's favorite series - besides Charlie and Lola - right now are the Five Little Monkeys books.  So, when I saw THIS - I knew she would LOVE it!!!  And, smart mom that I am  :) - I was right - we got it in the mail this week and played it today!  What a hit - this is a great game that says ages 3 and up - so I was worried it might be TOO easy for her, but no - she just loved it - and, don't tell, but the boys wanted to "help us out" too.  So - it's just another Christmas idea for you all - yes, Joe will tell me I should have saved it for Christmas too, but we needed a diversion today!!!

(Don't forget - if you click from this link - we get a portion donated to our adoption fund.)

Game Review

I have not done a game post for sometime now, but we've been playing a fun game lately that I thought I would share.....

30 Second Mysteries for Kids by University Games is our new family favorite! This is a great travel game (or around the bonfire, our favorite!!). It's a book format and you choose the "Who", "What", "When", "Where", "Why", or "How" category. Once you have your category then you read to the others what is printed on the page - their task? To answer your riddle questions. It reminds me of the riddles that we used to ask each other as kids - the ones that had just enough missing information to keep you guessing. We are having so much fun with this game - and I'm thinking it would make a great game for in the van while we travel!!! Be sure to check it out - it's lots of fun!

My Christmas Wish

People always ask for kids to make Christmas lists but no one has asked me for my list - there really isn't much on it............except this..........................
Bookopoly - Yes it's a "book" game - it has Becky Bilby written all over it. And then, the day after Christmas, it's a book party game at my house!!! (Complete with Eggnog!!)


Just check out this description:

Roll the dice and advance to Read. Collect Bookstores and trade them in for
Libraries. Who knows! You may soon be elected President of the Book Club or you
may be tossed out of the game for three turns and sent to WATCH TV!

Sounds too good to be true!!!!

Games, Games, Games

This is my new occasional post - I was inspired by Katrina over at Callapidder Days. She does a weekly feature on games that they are enjoying and, being another "game family", thought I'd post some fun ones we've been playing as well.

So, for my first game suggestion -

It is Faces by Buffalo Games. We played this for the first time last week and I am telling you -get ready to laugh and laugh and laugh. It is a lot like "Apples to Apples" where you are trying to guess what others would choose, but yet SO different. To play, faces are drawn from the deck and placed in a lineup. Player One draws one of the 174 Impression Cards, which might read "The one who loves being a dentist" or "The one who is obsessed with neatness." All players vote for the face that best fits the description. Other players advance if they match Player One's guess, while Player One advances one space for each match. Play then rotates to the next player. There are almost 200 comical faces to choose from such as vintage female faces, old time male faces or crazy animal faces. It says 10 and up for age, but Aaron loved it and he's only 8 1/2 so you can really gear it down if you need to! We just loved it and HIGHLY recommend it!

You can get this at Boardgames.com for $21.95 or Amazon.com for $18.99.
For 3 - 8 players. Ages 10 and up.