Pointless Games: The Golden Run

Lisa and I like to make up pointless games just for fun.

One game we made up is called "The Golden Run".

Here are the rules:
1) Drive home from your mother-in-law's house.
2) Hit every green light on the way home.

That's it. If you hit every green light on the way home you've just completed The Golden Run and you win.

Here was our 15.2 mile course (we lived in Tempe at the time).
The green markers are stop lights (8 traffic lights in all).



Making it past the first light is critical. It takes skill and precision to hit your first green.



After the first two lights, the rest was a breeze until you hit downtown Tempe.



The best part was the steadily-building anticipation of the next light if we were on a roll.
There was always one unspoken rule though; during The Golden Run course, never mention The Golden Run or you'll jinx it.

There were also the less illustrious Silver Run (hitting 1 red light) and the Bronze Run (hitting 2 red lights). But those were for chumps.

I think we completed The Golden Run only twice.

Anyway, does anyone else have any pointless games?

We're Having Pigeon For Dinner.

Hannah has a ton of books.

She can barely sit through one book before casting it aside to read another.

There is one book that she wants us to read over and over...

... and over.

It's called The Pigeon Has Feelings Too! by Mo Willems Just wanted to share Hannah's all time favorite book.







































It's basically about a pigeon that gets tricked into showing his happy face.










































This morning she had a tantrum on the floor because I wouldn't read it for a fifth time in a row. She can't get enough of it.

Jared and I have tried to make reading this book less repetitive by reading it in one breath or backwards. Hannah calls us on it and cries until we read it normally. What's a parent to do?

What does your kid make you do?

Tons and Tons of Sand.

We went to the beach.



















It was so much fun!
















We buried Jared...













And built him a new body.
















We went with Marie, Alan, and Grace.

(Jared's sister, our brother-in-law, and neice)

Hannah liked the beach...




















But not the ocean.



That wave was bigger than we thought it would be.