Amy's Games

We are a family that loves games - maybe not as much as the Parkinson's, but we do love them. Where do I begin? Jeny and I used to stay up all night playing games. We played Pit and Sorry and Throw the Ball back and forth, anything we could think of to keep us awake. We played the bird game a lot since we had bunkbeds. The one on top would stick their hand down between the bed and the wall to the one on the bottom and swing it back and forth and the one on the bottom would try and catch it (was that how we did it Jeny?). We played Dumb Dora as a family and a lot of Trivial Pursuit. Jeny and Stephanie would go through the cards during sleepovers and try to memorize them. When we went to Grandma Breckenridge's house we would always go down in the dark scary basement to the game closet. Usually it was Life or Mousetrap. We also played dress-up in the bedroom down there. At Grandma Lauritzen's we played dress-up with the ice-cream bowls full of costume jewelry. Always there was a fight about who got the Santa Clause earrings. And we learned to play Casino from Grandpa. Alex and I play that a lot now - he's pretty good! In our neighborhood in Utah there were a lot of kids my age so we played all the time. Lots of bike riding and roller skating. Kristin and Rachael and I used to go behind the Borba's house and play in the plum trees or the creek. Or we would go to Chadwicks and play Batman and Robin on the jungle gym (when they still lived on Clover Circle). When we moved to Colorado there were no kids my age and not a whole lot to do, so I don't really remember playing much, except Asteroids on the Atari and Jai Alai on the little tiny TV.