{"id":1298,"date":"2012-01-09T23:41:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T03:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2012-01-15T21:19:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T03:19:35","slug":"december-at-grandmas-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=1298","title":{"rendered":"December at Grandma&#8217;s (Pt. 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7173\/6592319543_a0a5aaf067.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0213\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The big boys. The cousins. The cool kids.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Yikes. At this rate, I will still be blogging about December in February. We&#8217;ll get through this. Stick with me. I promise things are actually happening. But life keeps getting in the way of these memories! Yeesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7169\/6592316107_3ae14c75a1.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So where were we? My mom&#8217;s house. Well, she hosted yet another wonderful delicious feast for the entire family. And as with last year&#8217;s celebration, it was a whirlwind of fun and chaos and noise and it all went by so so fast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7015\/6592315795_4e4fba46da.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0172\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7002\/6592319001_2ed98f24d7.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0206\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This year, Uncle Jon was quite a hit while roughing up the wee ones a bit. Which lasted a whole five minutes before there were tears from two out of three of my boys (not Jon&#8217;s fault).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7171\/6592318637_6c4c6d47d1.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0203\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7150\/6592318321_5fbd0f2586.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0202\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Tired, cranky baby. Kind, patient Uncle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7021\/6592317501_27ccaba219.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0196\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>And my lovely sister Krista who consistently out-crafts us all with her creative inventions (she made the coolest ornaments out of Sculpty this year, and is seen here just sewing away by the fire. A real-life Martha Stewart. You know, without the record).<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7159\/6592317143_dc97d901a5.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0192\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7023\/6592317843_6626522d66.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0200\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And there&#8217;s really not much more to say about that. Other than, thank you, Mom, for hosting us all yet again. I know we all appreciated everything you did to prepare and make this celebration special for all the wee lads. And thank you, family, for being quirky and funny and crazy. I love you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7017\/6592316797_6f78719de1.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0187\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Merry Everything.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big boys. The cousins. The cool kids. Yikes. At this rate, I will still be blogging about December in February. We&#8217;ll get through this. Stick with me. I promise things are actually happening. But life keeps getting in the way of these memories! Yeesh. So where were we? My mom&#8217;s house. Well, she hosted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=1298\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;December at Grandma&#8217;s (Pt. 2)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,100],"tags":[60,66,54],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-favorite-places","tag-extended-family","tag-holidays","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","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=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}