{"id":11040,"date":"2016-04-25T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=11040"},"modified":"2016-09-07T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:36:06","slug":"weekend-shenanigans-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=11040","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0123\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1549\/26562581541_685387b517_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0123\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1549\/26562581541_f545cdb094_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0123\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1516\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, thank you, thank you for your responses to last week&#8217;s posts. I loved reading the comments and emails and was so touched by you sharing pieces of your life and thoughts with me. Thank you! You are all awesome!<\/p>\n<p>Andrew and I spent our 9th anniversary well. The night before, I snuck around the house after Andrew had already gone upstairs and hid 9 little gifts (mostly inside jokes) along with clues leading to the next gift. It was a lot of fun to do and even more fun the next morning hearing him (he wakes up at 4:30 every morning, that crazy guy!) quietly tiptoeing around the house finding the gifts. That night, he took me out to dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourseasons.com\/stlouis\/dining\/restaurants\/cielo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cielo<\/a> at the Four Seasons in downtown St. Louis. I requested fancy, and man was it fancy! Plus, the view of the city was gorgeous. So romantic!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0121\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1480\/26562577361_6aa2bc3378_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0121\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1480\/26562577361_a273504d6c_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0121\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1063\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0114\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1718\/26024454303_1955a3f40c_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0114\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1718\/26024454303_01ff6f0a6f_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0114\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1143\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0120\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1566\/26024456103_2a8d71ed13_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0120\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1566\/26024456103_236438ebb6_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0120\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1143\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0110\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1530\/26354685130_2b590829de_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0110\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1530\/26354685130_8b7c32a3f6_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0110\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1143\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0112\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1668\/26024452403_30d28c25a5_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0112\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1668\/26024452403_5db7a76c81_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0112\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1069\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0125\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1496\/26534798412_42c059f3f3_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0125\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1496\/26534798412_af0a51bc90_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0125\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1063\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0127\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1603\/26354687290_8a4ab0caac_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0127\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1603\/26354687290_f78ccbf265_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0127\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1063\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The food was amazing. A real treat. We capped the night off by binge watching\u00a0<em>The Office<\/em> on Netflix, ha ha! But really, it took us back to the days before kids so we reminisced in such a sweet way.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of sweet&#8230; these two in a rare loving embrace:\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0131\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1612\/26534799182_4156f740ea_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0131\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1612\/26534799182_36d52ffde4_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0131\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1143\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0138\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1510\/26534799932_d54df7f3d1_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0138\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1510\/26534799932_f1b08f637d_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0138\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; not to be overshadowed by this ham, who now jumps in front of the camera whenever he gets the chance.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning we rewarded Emil&#8217;s good behavior with a new babysitter (yes, we had to reward good babysitter behavior&#8230; obviously a funny story behind that one) with a trip to the fire station! He was completely star struck. Now he really has the firefighter bug!<a title=\"DSC_0148\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1654\/26022317794_50baa29043_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0148\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1654\/26022317794_00f8f5aa95_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0148\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1181\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0151\" href=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1582\/26022318784_1ba9e71699_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0151\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1582\/26022318784_e401e03c3e_h.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0151\" width=\"1063\" height=\"1600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a beautiful, special weekend, and made me so look forward to more beautiful warm days. This summer is going to be amazing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, thank you, thank you for your responses to last week&#8217;s posts. I loved reading the comments and emails and was so touched by you sharing pieces of your life and thoughts with me. Thank you! You are all awesome! Andrew and I spent our 9th anniversary well. The night before, I snuck around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=11040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend Shenanigans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,185],"tags":[101,66,88],"class_list":["post-11040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-stlouis","tag-emil","tag-holidays","tag-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11043,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11040\/revisions\/11043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}