Tag: sequence

Beaten again and again

So Friday night is date night around Casa de Blundell. It’s been kind of inactive due to the holiday season.
So I think we both figured it was time to reenact this important piece of legislation.
The great thing about date night is there’s no requirements for what we do, where we do it or how we do it – just as long as we do it together – just the two of us.
We had a great time last night.

We made a huge dinner of homemade spaghetti and meatballs along with salad and bread.

dinner

Ok – it was homemade in that we put it all together for a full menu.
HEB had one of their great specials a week ago that I’m a super fan of. Buy a package of frozen meatballs, get spaghetti noodles and sauce for free. Awesome! $6 for the whole thing. Laurie bought some artisan bread and pre-packaged salad Friday evening and we put it all together. We also made a dipping sauce for the bread with crushed red peppers, olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

After dinner we talked a little more about the Casa de Blundell.com re-design and then headed to our local Starbucks to enjoy some hot drinks and reading.
She’s working on “Emily Ever After” that I got her for Christmas and I did some more reading in “Ragamuffin Gospel.”
Although with the girls working at Starbucks I found it hard to concentrate on what I was reading verses the latest gossip about their relationships.

We came home and I built the first fire we’ve had in our new house.

first fire

It was a rough start – hadn’t realized how small our fireplace actually was and the big log I put in never really got started. Glad we had some fire starters and Duraflame logs.

As the fire grew we played three rounds of Sequence. Laurie beat me again and again and again.

sequence

We started with one game, went to best of 3, then best of 4/5. Apparently she didn’t want to give me a chance to win ;-). That’s OK. She beat me three straight games. Everytime I started to get some offense built I had to jump over and play defense. And if I remember correctly I was usually three good cards away from beating her each game. But no excuses – 2nd place is the first loser :-).

After the games we had the pleasure of cleaning up after Presley and her upset stomach. We finally called it a night and crashed for the long night.

Great time! Doesn’t get much better than spending time alone with my life. I LOVE YOU BABY! Thanks for making my life fun and memorable.

Power Uno

Laurie and I just got back from Kara and Tim’s, we kind of invited ourselves over to hang out with my sister and her husband. They went to the Dallas Farmer’s Market today and picked up a bunch of fruit and veggies, so they provided the sides and a great blackberry cobbler and we brought the meat, sirloin steaks.

We had a great meal, a strawberry summer salad, green beans and new potatoes and the steak.
It all went down great with the hot cobbler and Blue Bell vanilla ice cream. MMMmmmm….

Afterwards we played a couple games, Imagine If, and Power Uno.

I think Imagine If maybe Kara’s new favorite game – but she cleaned house the first round we played so that may have something to do with it.

We ran into a couple snags though with Power Uno, since Laurie and I had only played it once a couple week’s ago at our Community Group meeting (it was a very spiritual week :-)).

I’m going to try and remember the situations and see if anyone has an answer to them. I can’t find any “official” rules or instructions for Power Uno on the web, although I did find some instructions for Super Power, No Sissies.

Just to set up the game/picture we were playing in this order, Jonathan > Laurie > Kara > Tim.

Situation 1: Going around the circle, it was my turn and I played a Draw 2 card. Laurie was next and she drew 2 cards from the deck. I then played another Draw 2 card (same color – identical card to what I laid down originally). We were confused on who would draw the next 2 cards. Would it be Laurie since I jumped in (out of turn to play a duplicate card) or would it be Kara (next in the circle after Laurie) since Laurie had already drawn two and I played at the end of her turn or the beginning of Kara’s turn?

Situation 2: When a duplicate card is played (as in above) who plays next? If I played a red 5 and Kara played a red 5 (out of turn) does she get to play again or would Tim play next since he was next in line after Kara?

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated – any Power Uno players out there let us know what you think.

Anyone else find any new games or variations on old games they love playing?

We’re enjoyed Power Uno, Imagine If and another game we played on July 4 with the Treadaways, Sequence. We haven’t purchased that one yet but we’ve been meaning to. I think we have a hard time justifying paying $15 for it when we saw it at Half Price Books for $6 :-). We’ve also enjoyed Boxers or Briefs but I think Imagine If may beat that one out as a top game. And if we can find it in a store, we’d like to purchase Dirty Laundry.