{"id":811,"date":"2008-03-11T10:07:41","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T16:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2008\/03\/11\/congratulations\/"},"modified":"2008-03-11T10:07:41","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T16:07:41","slug":"congratulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=811","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images?q=tbn:8ftB4j4l9s4J:www.iweddingclipart.com\/freecontent\/thumbs\/party\/celebration_clipart_party_4.gif\" alt=\"party\" \/>  Wooo Hoooo!  We have reached our 2000th comment here    <img src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/images?q=tbn:_mkY1NtXjxgJ:www.redsword.com\/clipart\/wedding_clipart\/clipart\/party\/party10.gif\" alt=\"confetti\" \/> on this old blog of mine! <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.clipartheaven.com\/clipart\/occasions\/parties\/party_favors_3.gif\"\"height=400 width=300\" alt=\"party\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did balloons fall from the sky and confetti pop out of your screen?  Well, it didn&#8217;t happen here, either.<\/p>\n<p>But my 200th comment came from&#8230;.My Mom!  Seriously, it was her comment on the big squish that earned her the coveted prize pack for the 2000th comment!<\/p>\n<p>So, Mom, here&#8217;s what you win: (drumroll, please)<\/p>\n<p>\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153my favorite little IKEA spatula<br \/>\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A $10 Toys R Us gift card, (and since there are grandkids with birthdays coming up, I&#8217;m sure you can use this)<br \/>\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Two free Kids\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 Meals at TGI Fridays (oh, for when you take your grandkids out to dinner!)<br \/>\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Two Tickets to the Hale Center Theater in Orem (I know you like plays)<br \/>\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153An entree and soft drink from the California Pizza Kitchen (to eat before or after you go to the Hale Center Theater)<br \/>\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Two free kids meals to Mimi\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s Cafe (again with the grandkids, right?)<br \/>\n\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The book The Maker&#8217;s Diet.  <img src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/519J1VS43FL._OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg\" alt=\"book\" \/><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t really know if it&#8217;s a good book, or a good diet, to tell you the truth, but it was given to me, and I know you love diets, Mom, so I&#8217;m giving it to you!<\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re on the subject of my mom, can I just let you know how much I love her?  She&#8217;s a great mom, and she&#8217;s always been very supportive of me and my brother and sisters.  She and Dad love their grandkids and come to as many events as they can.  They even took Cole and his cousin Braeden on a road trip to Arizona!  That&#8217;s at least 24 hours in the car with two kids who apparantly did far too much chatting and laughing.  So, Mom, I love you, and Congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wooo Hoooo! We have reached our 2000th comment here on this old blog of mine! Did balloons fall from the sky and confetti pop out of your screen? Well, it didn&#8217;t happen here, either. But my 200th comment came from&#8230;.My Mom! Seriously, it was her comment on the big squish that earned her the coveted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}