Easy Family Game Night #dipdiphooray

Hope you’ve been hav­ing a great Labor Day week­end! We cer­tainly have had a fun-filled one with lots of games involved– like  col­lege foot­ball games, swim­ming games (we took Baby Brother for his first dip in the pool), The Hunger Games on DVD home movie date night, and a fam­ily game night! Super fun!

With all that activ­ity, we kept things really sim­ple for din­ners this week­end. I didn’t want to spend a bunch of time in the kitchen while every­one else was hav­ing all the fun. So, for din­ner last night we decided on game day left­overs (like the veg­gie tray & chili cheese dip), some Tyson Chicken Nuggets,
Ore Ida French Fries, plus some required dips like ranch & Heinz Ketchup !

While I was shop­ping at Wal­mart for our easy din­ner menu items & a few things for break­fast, I decided to browse the board game selec­tion to see about pick­ing up some­thing fun & new (you can see my whole shop­ping trip on Google+ here). For the lit­tle ones, we have Chutes & Lad­ders, Mem­ory, and Sequence for Kids. But, I knew the boys would LOVE some other clas­sics like Hi Ho Cherry Oh, Hun­gry, Hun­gry Hip­pos or Cootie. Sadly, I wasn’t hav­ing any luck and then way back on the bot­tom shelf, tucked behind some other games, I found Cootie. I used to love play­ing it when I was a kid & for less than $8, I thought it would be a per­fect one to own!After my  quick trip to the store, we went to Grammy & Grampy’s house for a swim. The chicken nuggets & fries baked while we went for a swim. Super con­ve­nient! There was NO way I was spend­ing time in the kitchen when I could be in the pool with this sweet lit­tle guy! After our swim­ming fun, the boys were eager to eat! It was so nice to have a con­ve­nient meal ready to go. The kids had the reg­u­lar ‘ole Tyson Chicken Nuggets and we had Honey Bat­tered Chicken Ten­ders for the adults. Yum! Then, it was finally game time! Big Brother was SO eager to play! He’s at a per­fect age for this! We had two Has­bro preschool games to choose from and he of course chose to start with the new one!We all had such a fun time play­ing! I was pleased with the patience of both lit­tle guys as I didn’t remem­ber how long it can take to roll the “right” num­ber in this game! Great lessons in tak­ing turns & patience while build­ing silly bugs.And, all of Big Brother’s patience paid off as he was the first to build his Cootie bug! Yay for our Labor Day fam­ily game night win­ner!

What kind of fam­ily games does your fam­ily like?

For some addi­tional Fam­ily Game Night fun, you can check out the Dip to Play site. There you’ll find a place to enter the UPC codes of the #DipDipHooray prod­ucts (Tyson nuggets, Ore Ida Fries & Heinz Ketchup) to unlock the Has­bro game of the week, plus have chances to win a fun $1000 Has­bro Game Night sweep­stakes (see full details/rules, here)!

Dis­clo­sure: I am a mem­ber of the Col­lec­tive Bias™ Social Fab­ric® Com­mu­nity.  This shop has been com­pen­sated as part of a social shop­per insights study for Col­lec­tive Bias™ Tyson and Heinz #CBias #Social­Fab­ric #DipDipHooray. As always, all opin­ions and expe­ri­ences are my own.