Ravensburger Tryazon Party!

  This month I got to host a Ravensburger Tryazon game promoting their new "Oh My Pigeons" game as well as a "Pop Culture" version of "That's Not a Hat"!

    I am so grateful to Tryazon for selecting me for so many board game parties! We love gameschooling, our friends are mostly all avid gamers and we love trying out new products to see what will be a great fit for our family and friends!  

                                         

Oh My Pigeons! is another adorable game!  The purple pigeon plush and the pin were awesome freebies that they sent along for me to give away!  The game is advertised as ages 8 and up, but our youngest player was 6 and she could play on her own! She even won the most rounds so she got to take the sweet purple pigeon home!

   

    I like to have lots of other products from the brands on hand if I own them, so we had several other Ravensburger games for the kids to play with while they waited their turn on the 2 new games. 

    Heidi enjoyed the sweet little bird characters! 

       Ravensburger is one of the greats when it comes to games and puzzles and these two will make great additions to any families game closet!  

Dion's Pizza Field Trip

Last week, Percy, Sulley and I got to go on their first field trip!  Sulley's school enrichment program hosted a behind-the-scenes field trip to Dion's Pizza.  We had never been and so we were excited to try out a new pizza place locally!

Every kiddo got a neat coloring/work book to entertain them while we waited for their tours to start.  They had PK-2nd grade books and 3-6th grade books. 

You know we're all about that LEGO life, so I had to get a picture of the LEGO pizza!

The staff was so great with the kids. There were lots of oohs and ahhs and giggles coming from the kitchen.  The restaurant is designed so you can watch what's happening in the kitchen at all times, so we were able to see/hear the presentation from the lobby.  

After their tours, each kiddo got to have pizza and apple juice.  I had a chicken Caesar salad and it was really good!  

Before we left, each kiddo got a Dion's pizza shirt. :) 

 

Piggy Piggy! Tryazon

 

    I was selected to review the new Hasbro game, Piggy Piggy, by Tryazon!  We received a copy of the game to try out with our friends and family!

Before we had a chance to try out the game as a family, Percy (5) and Bruce (4) got a hold of it and had a great time playing with the adorable little pigs!  I had to keep chasing after them so they didn't misplace the pigs before we got to play the game! 

    We sat down for a family game night one evening to try out this game.  Lucas is almost 15, Vinnie just turned 13, and Sulley is 7 and a half, but has several special needs.  

    I had previously read through the instructions but we gave Tim a chance to read them as well and then he and I taught the kids how to play while we played the first round. 

    As a game schooling family, Sulley (and even Percy) are very used to how games work with turn taking and being a good sport when winning or losing.  

The art work on the cards is adorable.  As far as we could tell, they were all unique too!  

    The game play is relatively simple in concept but does leave a bit of strategy and luck to be figured out as well.  Each player is attempting to have the largest stash of food for each pig.  Each colored pig has a favorite food: donuts, tacos, fries, ice cream and sushi.  You can use goats to steal food cards from other players increasing your chances of winning a pig!  There is a unique scoring system that is easy to figure out and a round lasted about 25 minutes when we were learning and 15-20 minutes for each round after that!  

The only down-side to this adorable game is the case!  While the shaped case is cute, it just isn't practical for a gaming family like ours.  It will live in the "bucket" of games because it doesn't easily stack on the shelves with the other card games.  Also, as you can see in the following pictures after the game has been played a few times the cards just do not fit back into the case.  We had to kind of smoosh them down and then quickly stick the lid on the game.  

    The game is less than $10 online so it would be a great travel game or a quick birthday gift!