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How We Do Family Game Night

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As much as our family is always on the go, go, go, we also like to take it nice and slow every so often and just be in our home, just the 6 of us…and our dog, lol, so make that 7! Family time is super important to us because it allows us to spend some time with our children without devices, phone calls, and text messages so we try really hard to make it a point to do something together as a family at least once a week. In the winter we love family movie nights (especially with all the holiday movies!) but after a while we need to stretch our minds and Family Game Night is always welcomed with open arms by all!How We Do Family Game Night // SmashedPeasandCarrots.com

How We Do Family Game Night // SmashedPeasandCarrots.com

We love all the old school favorites like Monopoly, Uno, Sorry!, checkers, and chess, I mean how can you beat such timeless games, am I right? But lately, every year at Christmas my youngest sister has been sending us new family games like Blokus (first pictures in post). I love learning new games with my kids. Instead of my husband and I teaching them how to play, we learn together! Yep, even moms and dads make mistakes when reading directions, right?!

I also love the idea that these newer games will have the nostalgia that Monopoly and Uno have for my husband and I. Games make great childhood memories and associating them with fun family time will hopefully evoke even more warm and fuzzy feelings as they grow up and have their own children. 🙂  One part of family time, whether it is Family Game Night, Movie Night, or Karaoke Night is that we always do a fun dinner. Sometimes it’s appetizers and finger foods, other times it’s dessert for dinner, but many, many, many times it’s pizza! Pizza is always a winner in our family 🙂 How We Do Family Game Night // SmashedPeasandCarrots.com How We Do Family Game Night // SmashedPeasandCarrots.comWe love the ease of having RED BARON® Classic Crust pizza as it’s the happy medium of being not too thick, not too thin, and has just the right crunch for all of us. It’s a timeless pizza that’s a favorite for family pizza night…no matter when you grew up! My kids love the pepperoni or the sausage and Clif and I like the veggies on the supreme! How We Do Family Game Night // SmashedPeasandCarrots.com How We Do Family Game Night // SmashedPeasandCarrots.comOnce the pizza is ready we set up our game and then eat, and play, and eat, and play. With a whole bunch of laughing and joking…and a small amount of telling the littlest child he is playing wrong and needs to wait his turn! Eventually we just let him do his own thing and play around him, ha! How We Do Family Game Night // SmashedPeasandCarrots.com At least he is cute eating all the pepperoni off the pizza!How We Do Family Game Night // SmashedPeasandCarrots.comIf you’d like to learn more about Red Baron pizza you can visit them on their website. Now for a chance to win a $100 Visa gift card, tell me in the comments below, how do you spend your special family night?

Thanks for stopping by today! Love, Maggie  

 

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    Comments

    1. Jen Baedke says

      We love family nights! We love doing family movie nights and have pizza. Our favorite family nite is whenever we play Disney Headbands! We laugh a lot especially at my youngest who always seems to giveaway who we are somehow. So thankful for this time!

    2. Sandra says

      We try to keep Friday clear and use that night as family game night or family movie night. It’a always a great way to wind down after the week.

    3. Tracie M says

      We like to stay in on Sundays and relax. No friends, no work, just quiet family time before another hectic week begins

    7. Chelsea M says

      In the winter we spend family night watching family movies. In the summer we go to our neighborhood park to play in the splash pad or go to a park concert. We really do different activities never really the same 🙂

    9. heather says

      Our special family night is making dinner together and enjoying a nice family movie or playing a board game together.

    11. Jeffrey says

      Our family night in the winter months is usually spent playing cards or watching movies. In the summer we love to swim.

    14. claudia davis says

      We usually do a game night or a movie night when we want to spend time together.

    18. Natalie says

      My family loves to spend family nights playing card games and dice games together. We also like to watch movies together or binge-watch shows on Netflix!

    42. Margaret Smith says

      On most weekends, we’ll have a family night. Either we’ll watch movies together or play board games. We also make special treats like pizza or popcorn. Thanks so much.

    46. Jannifer says

      My husband and I are both in elementary education and that can keep us very busy so we also set aside one night a week, usually a Friday or Saturday, for family time. The kids get to choose dinner that night. Sometimes it’s breakfast or nachos and sometimes it’s BLTs, but more often than not it’s Pizza. Some nights we watch a family movie and other nights we play board games, have nerf battles, or family arts and crafts time. No matter what it is our kids choose my husband and I give them our 100% attention. These are the things that memories are made of…and we love making them with our kids.

    49. Jenn says

      We really value our nights at home as a family! We eat dinner at home together and either play games, watch movies or just hang out together. So glad we have those nights in place as our oldest enters the teen years!

    51. Annie Halfpenny says

      We make dinner together and play a game or watch a movie or TV show we both like!

    52. Anastasia Falling says

      For family night, I love getting a chance to eat together and do something fun! Like play games or watch a movie! Spend some time together and relax after a long week of work 🙂

    54. Elle says

      We like to play board games together and if it’s in the spring/summer, spend time in the backyard.

    58. Susan Smith says

      We spend out special family night by bringing in a pizza and playing games and watching a movie.

    63. Cynthia C says

      We would sometimes all help make dinner and then have a night of playing card games like Uno or War.

    73. Allison Swain says

      We usually have pizza and game night together.

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    78. Elizabeth Pergande says

      We love to spend our family night with pizza and a game. Fun times! truckredford(at)gmail(D0t)Com

    81. angie says

      We are pretty basic here. hahaha! A movie on Netflix and a pizza is about as special as it gets. But I love it!

    88. Tabathia B says

      We either watch a family movie with popcorn or play board games with pizza

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    98. Kathryn C says

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      We love playing scrabble or charades together as a family

    104. Sarah L says

      I live alone so don’t have a family night. When I was growing up we always ate dinner together.
      Thanks for the contest.

    109. shelly peterson says

      we like to have family movie nights and game nights and cook up some pizza.
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