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Hey, everyone, Welcome back to another episode of We Are
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the Hansens, the show where family chaos is just part
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of the fun. I'm y A Hansen, and today I'm
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flying solo to bring you a story that will have
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you laughing, maybe crying, but mostly just wanting to gather
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your own crew for the night of friendly or in
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our case, fiercely competitive games. We're calling this episode the
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Ultimate Hansen Family Game Night. And let me tell you,
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when you have as many kids as we do, it's
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not just a game night. It's an event, a full
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scale production that requires snacks, strategy referees, sometimes even a whiteboard,
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and definitely a sense of humor. Planning a game night
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in a house full of kids, from young ones all
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the way up to adults is no small feat. First,
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you've got to pick games that everyone can play and
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actually wants to play. That's already a challenge. You've got Maddie,
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our thirteen year old, who is queen of strategy and
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insists on games like Monopoly and not the quick fifteen
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minute version either. Then we've got the younger ones, who
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only care if they can make noise, build something, or
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crash something and don't even get me started on the
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older boys because they like to be loud. So what
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do we do. There's several different games. We split the
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night into different times of games. So we'll play this
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game at this time, this game at this time. We
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just do it until the games are done. Whoever wins wins,
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so it's like a circus, but it's fun. Sometimes we
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have Uno, sometimes we have maybe Jinga, Sometimes we have Monopoly,
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maybe poker, Pictionary, charades. It's the Hansen Showdown. The Hanson
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Showdown started one night when all the kids were over
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and we made up teams, bigs versus littles, parents versus kids,
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even boys versus girls, and went through rounds of trivia,
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acting challenges in silly dares. It's grown every year since
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now that we have you know, a point system, team
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names scorekeepers, and yes we play games like hun and Monopoly.
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We liked the game Clue. That is the funnest game
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we have. It's always been a crowd favorite, especially when
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it's cold outside. The laughter, shouting, accusations, and cheating mostly playful, mostly,
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and usually someone ends up storming out and coming back
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in ten minutes for snacks. Let's talk about the snacks
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because game night snacks are just as important as the
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games themselves. You want everyone happy and not hungry, but
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also not so hyped up on sugar they're bouncing off
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the walls. That tends to happen a lot. Our spread
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includes popcorn, fruit, pretzels, nachos, cookies, you know, you name it,
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we pretty much have it. Chips and dip is one
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of the favorites. We do a fuel up break in
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between rounds and sometimes that's where alliances form. You'll see
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the kids whispering and pointing, and suddenly someone who was
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losing is now miraculously winning. Coincidence, I think not. We
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don't mind. Honestly, we love watching them scheme and plan.
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It's part of the joy of the game night seeing
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our kids work together and bond, tease each other and
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just be kids. We've got everything from classic games like
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Monopoly and Uno to the new games. Clue, like I said,
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has always been our favorite, and we even make up
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our own games. And when I see somebody cheating, I
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give the mom glare that right there, everybody knows I've
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caught them. One of the reasons I love our family
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game nights so much is because they've become a place
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where we've taught our kids without preaching. We're showing the
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kids how to win gracefully, how to lose with dignity,
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still working on that one a little bit, and how
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to take turns, how to think creatively, and how to
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enjoy each other's company without needing screens. In a big
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family like ours, it's easy for people to get lost
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in the shuffle, but game Night reminds us that every
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person matters, every person gets a turn, and every person
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contributes something to the joy. It is so fun just
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to be able to sit back and watch your kids.
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So we used to play this game. We haven't played
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it in a while. It's called Trivia Crack and it
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is on your phone, but we just read the questions
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on the phone and then we let we go around
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and let everybody answer the questions. We split into like
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two of teams and everyone gets to answer and then
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we see who won. That's a fun game. Granted, you
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still need the screen to read the questions, but we
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make it our own, you name it. We play at Battleship.
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It is so fun. Spoons and we even have made
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up our own games. So with that being said, our house,
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when it's game night. It is loud, chaotic, fun, filled
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with laughter and joy, and we all just have each
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other's company. Sometimes we do have friends that come over.
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We play Bemboozled. The kids really liked that. One last
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week we did Bimboozled with the hot beans instead of
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the nasty ones. The little ones could not do it.
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It had to be the older ones, but the older
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ones still had fun. Now. Of course, once the games
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are over, the cleanup begins. That's a lot because we
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find uno cards everywhere, we find playing cards everywhere, we
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find dice everywhere, a half eaten pretzel under the table,
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and someone has a draw mustache on all the dry
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race markers. The little ones are asleep, the boys are
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arguing over who really won, and Maddie is already asking
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when we can do it again. And that's how we
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know it was a success. And then you got the
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boys that decide that they may want to play play
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on the PS five and they play football. After everything
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gets cleaned up, they're playing football on the PS five
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and they're fighting over who won, or who's winning, or
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who had a trash throw, you name it, it happens.
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Our house is never dull, and I do have to say,
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Family game night at our home is the best night.
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It is so enjoyable and everybody is always like, what
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games are we playing? What games are we playing? We
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play as many games as we can. We have tons
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of games. We even have Aggravation, which is a game
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that has been in our family. Jeremy's grandma started it
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and it's just kind of slid down to the kids.
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So they all enjoy playing that, and it also brings
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back a lot of memories from when Grandma and Grandpa
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were alive, and they get to reminisce on Grandma and
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Grandpa's strategies and how they win the game and what
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dice to pick or what marbles to pick, because there's
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always the lucky marbles. Grandma Darlene and Grandpa Sonny always
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had lucky marbles or lucky dice, and every time they
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had them, usually they won. Grandpa's Sonny liked to sneak
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and cheat, but it was still fun and the kids
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try and do those same things so that they can win.
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So it is kind of neat to see and reminisce
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on times you had with loved ones that are no
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longer here. Another thing is just being together and seeing
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your kids interact with one another is such a wonderful feeling.
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It's like magic. And yeah, they bicker and they pick
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at each other and tease each other. But I could
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not go one night without seeing that because it would
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not be normal. And to us, that is normal, that
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is an everyday thing. So in our hands and home,
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it's absolutely normal and it's okay. And every kid knows
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how to defend themselves and come back with something better
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or funnier, and just listening to them bicker and pick
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at each other, I know they're having a lot of fun.
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So them are some of the things that we like
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to do. Our family game nights are a blast and enjoyable.
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Even our kids's friends that come over tell us that
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we have the funnest home on family game night, and
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we are the funnest family to be around because we
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actually do I'd rather do that, or sit down and
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watch a movie with my family then sit on my phone,
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or you know, anything like that. We even get good
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games of ghosts in the graveyard going with the neighbors.
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It's so fun, so fun, it's like the kids can't
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get enough of it. And by the time we look
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at the time it's already midnight, and we're like, oh man,
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we've really played a hard game of Ghosts in the graveyard.
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But that's all right because it always happens on a
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Friday night or a Saturday night, and you know, it's
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a weekend, so why not have fun and enjoy time
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with family and make them memories. So that's the story
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of the Ultimate Hansen's Family Game Night. It's wild, it's loud,
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it's definitely messy, and it's one of my absolute favorite
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things we do as a family. If you're listening and thinking,
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my family could never do that, I promise you can
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start small. One deck of Uno, one round of charades,
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and you're on your way, because at the end of
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the day, game night isn't really about the games. It's
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about connection, about putting our phones down, looking each other
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in the eye, and making memories that last a lifetime.
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gmail dot com. Until next time, make your dice roll high,
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your snacks be plentiful, and your game night be just
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the right amount of crazy