{"id":17356,"date":"2011-12-29T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-29T06:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/29\/christmas-eve-5\/"},"modified":"2011-12-29T00:31:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-29T06:31:53","slug":"christmas-eve-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/29\/christmas-eve-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The girls were so excited to begin the Christmas festivities!<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s SO hard to get a family picture these days\u2026 livin\u2019 the good life right here!<\/p>\n

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Rose found a card Noelle made for great grandma and was so excited to get her hands on it!  I love this picture of discovery!<\/p>\n

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Then we made our traditional cookies for Santa\u2026 the girls love this part!<\/p>\n

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They were concentrating very hard!<\/p>\n

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Mike\u2019s Dad taught him the best way to cut a turkey.<\/p>\n

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Like I said, photos of all the girls is a huge challenge these days, but we keep trying!<\/p>\n

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Kay Kay and Grandpapa gave the girls pillow pet sleeping bags.  They were ready to crash!  Not!<\/p>\n

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As you can tell, Noelle REALLY wanted the Build-A-Bear Smurfette!  <\/p>\n

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Elated and giving thanks!<\/p>\n

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Kay Kay and Gradpapa got Anna Kate this adorable outfit and a Dora tag book and baby Rosie and tea set!  Next, we iced and sprinkled cookies!<\/p>\n

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And then it was time for the reading of the Christmas story and \u2018Twas the Night Before Christmas, both Christmas Eve traditions for us.<\/p>\n

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To end the night, the girls went out in the yard to sprinkle reindeer food for Santa\u2019s reindeer (oatmeal and glitter).  They didn\u2019t miss a spot around the parameter of the yard\u2026 it was hysterical!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                 The girls were so excited to begin the Christmas festivities! It\u2019s SO hard to get a family picture these days\u2026 livin\u2019 the good life right here! Rose found a card Noelle made for great grandma and was so excited to get her hands on it!  I love this picture of discovery! Then we made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17361,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17356\/revisions\/17361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}