Heather's Night to Pick
Agenda
Play a new board game - "Worst Case Scenario"
Watch a movie: Ernest Scared Stupid
Menu
Pizza, pizza, pizza!
Notes and game review
This was a good family night. Heather's nights are usually very good and for once we had a very good time with a board game (we have organizational issues when taking turns but that's a post for another time).
Before we review the board game let me just say that the movie choice was a stroke of genius. Everyone has those movies that they crack open only from time-to-time, and most times it doesn't seem like it will be a hit because "oh we've seen that 1000 times already" - and then you watch it. And it's funny all over again. That was what happened tonight. Huge fun! Great old movie. I'm a big Ernest fan and darn it Jim Varney, I miss you dude! Knowhutimean?
So the board game. I'd ... we'd been waiting to play this for a long time. And it didn't disappoint. It was fast-paced and educational as well .. along with being pretty doggone fun. It gets a high recommendation from yours truly. Gameplay is as simple as it gets. Take a turn, answer a question, if you get it right - you get to move .. next player. See? Simple.
Oh sure you probably can't have a steady diet of it. Some folks might get bored because this game doesn't provide distraction really. Its not flashy, not tons of fun colors or fancy bells and whistles ... but rather just a good game, providing a base of enjoyment that relies on family faces and relationships to mix in with it to make the evening fun ... but I think that's a good thing and rather like that about it :)
Monday, April 27, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Family night: 04/17/2009
Dad's night to pick
Menu:
Pizza from a new joint (to us) .. Stephanina's .. the word from us that its pretty good stuff. I still enjoy Heather's pizza better than this but I have guilt asking her to cook on family night. So I'm always on the lookout for really good pizza, on the cheap. This was pretty low cost and very good pizza - thin crust is all they do - and that's coolio with cause I'm all about the toppings. We kept it simple and went with beef and pepperoni. It was delish!
Agenda:
Pizza (duh, it IS family night at the Horton's - it's all we eat on Friday's folks).
Two movies: The Day the Earth Stood Still (the new version) and Bolt
Comments:
Quick review on TDTESS. I really enjoyed this. Even Josh commented on the fact that he liked it. Heather also thought it was pretty good. Honestly I guess the trailer to this movie had jaded me to it. From the trailer one got the impression that Hollywood was going to royally boof the old movie and try to reinvent it. It was very very close to the original classic. The effects were seriously updated and there were some twists that the original didn't have. GORT was very very cool - he's always been my very favorite movie robot. I got the feeling that if the technology had been up to the task back in 1951, that perhaps this is the story they would have told back then. I enjoyed this movie. And I still like Keanu Reeves; I've been a fan of his since he played Ted "Theodore" Logan. You have to admire a man who has built his entire career on the ability to say the word "whoa". Excellent work Ted.
Menu:
Pizza from a new joint (to us) .. Stephanina's .. the word from us that its pretty good stuff. I still enjoy Heather's pizza better than this but I have guilt asking her to cook on family night. So I'm always on the lookout for really good pizza, on the cheap. This was pretty low cost and very good pizza - thin crust is all they do - and that's coolio with cause I'm all about the toppings. We kept it simple and went with beef and pepperoni. It was delish!
Agenda:
Pizza (duh, it IS family night at the Horton's - it's all we eat on Friday's folks).
Two movies: The Day the Earth Stood Still (the new version) and Bolt
Comments:
Quick review on TDTESS. I really enjoyed this. Even Josh commented on the fact that he liked it. Heather also thought it was pretty good. Honestly I guess the trailer to this movie had jaded me to it. From the trailer one got the impression that Hollywood was going to royally boof the old movie and try to reinvent it. It was very very close to the original classic. The effects were seriously updated and there were some twists that the original didn't have. GORT was very very cool - he's always been my very favorite movie robot. I got the feeling that if the technology had been up to the task back in 1951, that perhaps this is the story they would have told back then. I enjoyed this movie. And I still like Keanu Reeves; I've been a fan of his since he played Ted "Theodore" Logan. You have to admire a man who has built his entire career on the ability to say the word "whoa". Excellent work Ted.
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Family night: 04/10/2009
Joshua's night to pick
Menu
Homemade pizza!
Agenda (Josh had a schedule for us)
6:00-6:30: Eat dinner
6:30 - 7:30: Abuse the parental units with a virtual flogging in Super Smash Bros Brawl on the Wii.
7:30: Watch movie "Bedtime Stories" starring Adam Sandler.
How it "really" shook out ....
Actually we came pretty close. We were a bit late starting with the eats (mom was on time but Dad and Thing 1 were late of course). The pizza was awesome! Heather should go into business making these and let me stay home, clean house, and blog all day - mental note to work on that master plan later - but this is really, really good pizza!
The flogging was dead-on. As usual. Joshua brought the pain. Its comical to watch the old people play video games but not so comical to be one. I resisted the urge this time to tell the "back in my day" stories of how simpler video games were and how awesome I was back then. Sigh. The glory days.
The pregnant lady did sorta fall asleep on the couch for a time during our intermission between gaming and movie. I used that time to research moves for Meta-Knight in hopes of someday NOT dying in the first 60 seconds of Brawling with Thing One.
And finally the movie. If you haven't seen this one yet, tis at least worth a rental. We enjoy Adam Sandler and his family-type movies are generally pretty fun. Don't look for any deep plot; just have fun with it - tis a good time.
That's all until next week!
Menu
Homemade pizza!
Agenda (Josh had a schedule for us)
6:00-6:30: Eat dinner
6:30 - 7:30: Abuse the parental units with a virtual flogging in Super Smash Bros Brawl on the Wii.
7:30: Watch movie "Bedtime Stories" starring Adam Sandler.
How it "really" shook out ....
Actually we came pretty close. We were a bit late starting with the eats (mom was on time but Dad and Thing 1 were late of course). The pizza was awesome! Heather should go into business making these and let me stay home, clean house, and blog all day - mental note to work on that master plan later - but this is really, really good pizza!
The flogging was dead-on. As usual. Joshua brought the pain. Its comical to watch the old people play video games but not so comical to be one. I resisted the urge this time to tell the "back in my day" stories of how simpler video games were and how awesome I was back then. Sigh. The glory days.
The pregnant lady did sorta fall asleep on the couch for a time during our intermission between gaming and movie. I used that time to research moves for Meta-Knight in hopes of someday NOT dying in the first 60 seconds of Brawling with Thing One.
And finally the movie. If you haven't seen this one yet, tis at least worth a rental. We enjoy Adam Sandler and his family-type movies are generally pretty fun. Don't look for any deep plot; just have fun with it - tis a good time.
That's all until next week!
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