Heidi's Games

We did a lot of different things in our neighborhood. We'd walk up to High Plains Elementary and play on the playground or baseball on the field. Like Mindy said, we played a lot of tennis on our street. Riding bikes was fun because we'd go up Rusty Hinge's hill, turn around and just coast back down. We played every kind of tag there is, and even made up some. Remember T.V. tag? Sometimes on summer nights we played flashlight tag. That's one of my all time favorites. In Colorado, there's plenty of snow to play with and David showed his creativity by making a nice tall igloo once. We had lots of fun with games in the snow building forts, having snowball fights and sledding.

Inside games were board games most of the time because we never had any playing cards (unless you count SkipBo, Uno and Pit). I think the official Lauritzen family game would have to be Spoons. Nice that you guys decided to play that AFTER I left in May, by the way. I enjoyed playing games with my family, even though I was a very poor sport. Encore and Trivial Pursuit were great. David made a game out of torturing us when he was babysitting. Matt was an expert at the human cannonball. Dave would lie on his back with his feet in the air, set Matt on his feet, then kick as hard as he could so that Matt went flying. We all got to participate in one way or another in this little circus, though none of us wanted to. It's no wonder we would cry when Mom told us David was babysitting us.