{"id":2785,"date":"2009-12-21T08:58:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2009-12-21T08:58:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T14:58:20","slug":"lets-get-down-to-the-serious-business-of-celebrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=2785","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s get down to the serious business of celebrating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;ve been a little preoccupied lately.  What with the concerts and rehearsals and the broadcast this morning, I haven&#8217;t done everything I&#8217;ve been wanting to do to celebrate.  You know, the fun stuff of Christmas!    But even with our busy schedule, we&#8217;ve managed to do quite a few fun things, like&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2009-12-20\/img_9068.sized.jpg\"height=300 width=400\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\ngoing to lunch with some dear friends,<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2009-12-20\/img_9085.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2009-12-20\/img_9087.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\ndecorating cookies with the kids,<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2009-12-20\/img_9096.sized.jpg\"height=400 width=300\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\ntake goofy pictures,<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2009-12-20\/img_9116.sized.jpg\" \"height=400 width=300\"alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nattend John&#8217;s Kindergarten Christmas program,<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2009-12-20\/img_9129.sized.jpg\"height=300 width=400\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nhave lunch with some more dear friends,<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2009-12-20\/img_9147.sized.jpg\" height=300 width=400\"alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nattend a family party where Ryan went a little crazy over the cute babies,<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2009-12-20\/img_9156.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2009-12-20\/img_9155.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nplayed some games,<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2009-12-20\/img_9176.sized.jpg\"height=400 width=300\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nsaw Santa,<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2009-12-20\/img_9181.sized.jpg\"height=300 width=400\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nRyan bothered the kids,<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2009-12-20\/58_G.sized.jpg\" height=300 width=400\"alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nvisited with Santa some more,<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2009-12-20\/img_9070.sized.jpg\" height=300 width=400\"alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nand don&#8217;t forget, we&#8217;ve spent lots of time arranging and playing with baby Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas is four days away, and we still have lots of celebrating to do, so let&#8217;s get on with the fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit I&#8217;ve been a little preoccupied lately. What with the concerts and rehearsals and the broadcast this morning, I haven&#8217;t done everything I&#8217;ve been wanting to do to celebrate. You know, the fun stuff of Christmas! But even with our busy schedule, we&#8217;ve managed to do quite a few fun things, like&#8230;.. take goofy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,16,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2800,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}