Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Pokemon!

    As a person who grew up in the 90s, Pokemon is a big part of my life! I remember learning how to play with my little brother.  My mom credits Pokemon with teaching him to read and I know it's helped my own kids with their reading and math skills! 

    This was another Pokemon heavy Christmas for our kids! I think they all got some form of Pokemon themed gifts!  Lucas got pint glasses, no he's not drinking alcohol yet, but they are fun for root beer floats! All three older kids got a TON of cards to add to their collection.  Percy and Sulley got a bunch of figurines too!













 

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Christmas Recap!

 As usual, for our game schooling family, we had a game heavy Christmas haul!  In the next few posts I'll be reviewing the games we've had the chance to try out!


We haven't been able to get the walls finished from the foundation work we had, right after we bought the house, so the unframed walls are featured in the pictures.  It is what it is.  


Our traditional, pose in front of the tree in matching jammies pictures...




As a family full of LEGO lovers, there were a lot of awesome LEGO gifts. 


Lucas checking out a card game.


The TikTok famous Minecraft magnetic cubes.  I found a couple brands on Amazon that had the .89" blocks at reasonable prices.  I'll do a mini-review of those in another post.


This game is a 100% winner, its called OK Play!


This was a random clearance aisle find, that actually is really cute and great for getting some ya-yas out indoors!


This boy absolutely LOVES playing with dominoes.  


More magnetic Minecraft style blocks.


This is the *BEST* version of Candy Land I've ever seen.   I have always liked the 80s art and felt that all the versions that have been out since I had kids were way too overstimulating, but this Bluey version is so calming. 


Jurassic Park "Ravenous Raptors"-- a themed version of Hungry Hippos. 


Sulley's haul-- I snagged the Sleeping Queens 2 right before Christmas in like-new condition, for $3 from the local BST page!


A game for mom!

Not the best "trouble" game I've ever played. 


Lucas' game haul.

Games for Vinnie:


So, that's most of the games we got for Christmas as a family. I'll be posting reviews of them as quickly as I can!  


I hope all our friends had a great Christmas too!