{"id":7602,"date":"2014-06-16T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T10:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7602"},"modified":"2014-06-15T21:48:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T02:48:07","slug":"weekend-shenanigans-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7602","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0084\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3895\/14429107811_0a3a42cfb0.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3895\/14429107811_0a3a42cfb0_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0084\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0086\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3866\/14245812329_f804981266.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3866\/14245812329_f804981266_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0086\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This past weekend we were lucky with beautiful weather and the company of our amazing friends. They have become our <em>best<\/em> friends throughout the past four years &#8212; they are there for us through thick and thin and have left us feeling humble, grateful, and continuously entertained, ha!\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0082\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5198\/14452641883_0ea0b1d69b.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5198\/14452641883_0ea0b1d69b_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0082\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0067\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2936\/14245804709_d850c2aa38.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2936\/14245804709_d850c2aa38_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0067\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0073\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3891\/14246007947_7f37610cfd.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3891\/14246007947_7f37610cfd_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0073\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0090\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3905\/14245856618_54e9d0fc52.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3905\/14245856618_54e9d0fc52_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0090\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0099\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5516\/14245816549_8c483c92b4.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5516\/14245816549_8c483c92b4_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0099\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We let the kids stay up extra late to catch fireflies and run amok in our yard while we all stalled, wanting the night to last longer but seeing that it would, like all things, have to come to an end at some point. They roasted marshmallows and played ball, chased each other and came up with hair-brained schemes like they always do (imagine clotheslining each other with the swing tied to a jump rope while one of them swung from it)&#8230; those kids can hang pretty tough!\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0107\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3871\/14245865520_b5324026d6.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3871\/14245865520_b5324026d6_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0107\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0117\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2908\/14452651343_86c1a61ce4.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2908\/14452651343_86c1a61ce4_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0117\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0119\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3865\/14429116921_6abdb48647.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3865\/14429116921_6abdb48647_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0119\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0127\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2931\/14245863288_0dd026149d.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2931\/14245863288_0dd026149d_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0127\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It felt like summer, like the real, genuine thing. Something about the fireflies and the marshmallows made it official! <a title=\"DSC_0128\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2921\/14431155882_ce00a7a77c.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2921\/14431155882_ce00a7a77c_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0128\" \/><\/a><a title=\"DSC_0146\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3871\/14431156782_42486029cf.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3871\/14431156782_42486029cf_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0146\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brent, aka the pied piper, made me truly appreciate the gentle yet physical way good fathers can be &#8212; both he and Andrew make me marvel at the way fathers engage kids like no one else can. There is a give-and-take, a balance that is magical when obtained, and the joy their children feel is palpable. It almost brought tears to my eyes!\u00a0<a title=\"DSC_0148\" href=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3903\/14452655303_e23b414fbf.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3903\/14452655303_e23b414fbf_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0148\" \/><\/a>Happy Father&#8217;s Day to those dads who bring it all and then some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend we were lucky with beautiful weather and the company of our amazing friends. They have become our best friends throughout the past four years &#8212; they are there for us through thick and thin and have left us feeling humble, grateful, and continuously entertained, ha!\u00a0 We let the kids stay up extra &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=7602\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Weekend Shenanigans&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[58,171],"class_list":["post-7602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","tag-friends","tag-yummy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602","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=7602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7612,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7602\/revisions\/7612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}