A drawn representation of "The Lances" breakfast cereal with Jer, Ger, and all three dogs in front of a bowl of cereal. The text reads "Happy Holidays from The Lance's"

2022 Lance Family Holiday Card

Happy Holidays from Ger, Bowser, Yoshi, Koopa, and Jer!

Both Ger and I fondly recall playing the games on the backs of cereal boxes (or looking on with envy at the much cooler games on the backs of sugar cereals were were not allowed to consume, in some cases!!), so this year’s card theme is a cereal box replete with games and nutritional information!

The card can be found below, and below that, the answer key to the games, so be careful scrolling if you don’t want spoilers!

A drawn representation of "The Lances" breakfast cereal with Jer, Ger, and all three dogs in front of a bowl of cereal. The text reads "Happy Holidays from The Lance's"
A connect the dots puzzle and a maze from the inside of the card. Text reads "connect the dots to make a picture!" and "brr...it's cold out there! help Jer to find long pants!"
A crossword puzzle and three very cute dogs
The Nutritional facts, the link to this page, and a holiday message that reads: "To quote the movie Forest Gump, Life is like a box of cereal, so enjoy this cereal representation of our little family. The cards of the last few years have felt very "us" focused, so this year we thought we'd bring you the gift of games to play and puzzles to solve. Games and puzzles created by us and brought to you by us. We did this. Us. LOVE US! Happy holidays and happy gaming!"

And now, the answers:

I hope you all had as much fun playing as we did making these (but I doubt it!). Happy holiday!

If you didn’t get a physical card, it either means we don’t have (or no longer have) your address, we didn’t want to be presumptuous in assuming that we’re at the “holiday cards” friendship level, or we’re mortal enemies. If you’d like a card and didn’t get one (and we aren’t mortal enemies [or, honestly, even if we are]) email me your address and we’ll get that corrected for next year!*

* This is in no way a promise that there will be a next year or that next year’s cards will be entertaining in any way, YMMV, void where prohibited, offer not valid in Pueblo, CO.