{"id":702,"date":"2007-12-27T10:27:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T10:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.131.168.108\/wordpress\/?p=702"},"modified":"2014-01-04T03:17:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T03:17:57","slug":"702","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2007\/12\/27\/702\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold;\" size=\"5\">HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KAREN!!!<\/font><\/div>\n<p>I think we&#8217;re having a family party on Sunday for her, but here&#8217;s a little something for her actual day!<\/p>\n<p>Eric is back to work today, so I am on my own.&nbsp; I started a cleaning project that I think is going to turn into something a bit more complicated than I&#8217;d originally intended.&nbsp; Oops!&nbsp; Well&#8230;at least this will keep me from buying stuff somewhere because I have nothing better to do!<\/p>\n<p>The weekend was good, but very busy.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s the quick recap:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Saturday<\/span>: Did some baking and wrapping and cleaning up at my house before heading to Mom&#8217;s for the party.&nbsp; Lots of babies and children, lots of food, lots of gift cards.&nbsp; (Most importantly, I ended up with TWO gift cards to Victoria&#8217;s Secret since, after I&#8217;d gotten one earlier, Eric chose the final package and that&#8217;s what was inside.&nbsp; So now I have lots of money for underwear.&nbsp; And the big VS sale is now\/soon&#8230;so I can get even more!!!)<\/p>\n<p>Sunday: Got up for church, then left immediately from first service to drive to the farm.&nbsp; Had dinner, opened gifts with the in-laws, and then hung out.&nbsp; Both sets of grandparents came over for supper, so we had another small exchange with just us, since we wouldn&#8217;t see them on Christmas.&nbsp; Then an early bedtime&#8230;so nice!<\/p>\n<p>Monday: Hung out with my in-laws for most of the day.&nbsp; We left for home about 5, and we relaxed at home for the evening, which was very nice.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Tuesday: Opened our presents and then headed to Cedarville for the day.&nbsp; We did a family Christmas, had egg casserole, and then played, chatted and goofed off in the afternoon.&nbsp; Chris &amp; Deb (and the girls, of course) headed for Michigan mid-afternoon, and the rest of us just relaxed at Mom&#8217;s house.&nbsp; We had a yummy ham dinner, and then Eric and I headed home about 9.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday: Yesterday was a pretty lazy day at our house.&nbsp; We both had headaches and sore necks from sleeping wrong or something.&nbsp; So we weren&#8217;t ambitious by any stretch.&nbsp; I organized the gifts under the tree and put away the wrapping stuff.&nbsp; Eric got the weekend&#8217;s pictures ready to post (look for an email to come soon), and we went to a movie in the afternoon (National Treasure 2&#8230;pretty good).&nbsp; Then we had a light supper and relaxed all evening. <\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s the recap&#8230;later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KAREN!!! I think we&#8217;re having a family party on Sunday for her, but here&#8217;s a little something for her actual day! Eric is back to work today, so I am on my own.&nbsp; I started a cleaning project &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/2007\/12\/27\/702\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2668,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/2668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elhogue.com\/shannah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}