Game Night

We finally got back into the routine of Game Night at Jim + Shawna's this weekend. John's new job has guaranteed 2 day weekends now, and it usually lines up well with Jim's schedule. We are all just in disbelief that we will soon collectively have 4 babies running around, at least 3 of them little boys! So much for game nights then! But Alex and Lucas were very good last night and either entertained themselves, watched tv, ate, sat in one of our laps and finally slept. Alex's favorite movie is Ice Age, and Lucas' is veggietales 'Jonah', but they were polite and watched each others movies lol. I thought this was so cute, because Alex doesn't like kids or babies and their crying, so this was a big deal for Alex to want to be close to Lucas and play next to him, even smiling at him at some points. Plus, it's so cute that Lucas stares at Alex and wants to play with him. These videos are not very clear, but I think you can still see the 2 cute boys befriending each other:


As for the adults, we tried a new strategy game called "Oltre Mare" (your guess is as good as mine for the pronunciation) and it's really fun! I won the first game of it, but that doesn't count does it Jim? It was only $10 online! And then we played the usuals. I won Citadels, and then (since that's the only game Jim doesn't win) he got to pick the next one, which was Acquire, a game about stocks that I usually suck at...I won, with $63,400--possibly the new high score! (Jim keeps a record of every score..lol)
And John won Ticket to Ride:
Shawna won the game of games, Settlers, which was the first one we started game night with, about a year ago (wow, it's a year long tradition already!):
I am going to start taking more pictures of our game nights but here are the few I took:




My pictures/video aren't as clear as usual, because I usually use Susan's camera which is really new (ours is ~3 years old) and Susan took hers to California with Norman for their vacation--hope you guys are having fun and taking lots of pictures! Lucas misses you (and we kinda do too).