{"id":33787,"date":"2013-10-08T00:38:32","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T05:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/?p=33787"},"modified":"2013-10-29T14:25:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T19:25:14","slug":"happy-big-3-0-brother-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/08\/happy-big-3-0-brother-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Big 3-0, Brother Man!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We had so much fun weekend before last with my parents and brother\u2019s sweet family celebrating John\u2019s big 30th birthday!  Nancy, Saylor (4 months), Harper (2 years 2 months), and John Boy are a ladies and gentleman kind of family too (no little boys)!  Anna Kate, Harper, Noelle, and Rose had the time of their lives spending the weekend together under one roof.  There\u2019s no better time than cousin time, and we can\u2019t wait for our Ebert cousins to live in the US again soon and join in the fun! <\/p>\n

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Poppa time!<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re ThePondFam5, having a good time\u2026 having a good time! (I\u2019m a dork\u2026 but are you singing the song?) \"Winking<\/p>\n

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The Banks girls!<\/p>\n

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This child of mine!  <\/p>\n

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Sweet Noelle and Poppa games with Rose<\/p>\n

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Cake time!  When we went to pick up the cake earlier that day, they showed it to us, and I was like, \u201cIt says Happiest 30th Birthday?\u201d  They said, isn\u2019t that what it\u2019s supposed to say?  Umm\u2026no!  Have you ever seen a cake that said that?  I was so confused because I was the one that placed the order.  I\u2019m thinking at this point and said out loud, \u201cWho would order a cake that didn\u2019t just say Happy (insert number) Birthday, (insert name).\u201d  That\u2019s pretty standard birthday cake lingo in the biz, right?  Anyway, everyone at the cookie company started laughing about it and pointing fingers at each other, trying to figure out who wrote it to pick on them.  So, you know me, I said, \u201cCan you just take a couple bucks off and we\u2019ll be good to go?\u201d  So they took $5 off, gave Noelle a bonus cookie\u2026 which is all fine and good, but the best part was all the laughs that I knew would continue on throughout the day and into the cake reveal (John\u2019s always been a jokester and loves goofy\/silly\/funny things), so I knew he would crack up.  What the cookie company\/that artist didn\u2019t know is that their mistake actually made the day even that much more fun!  We got so many laughs out of those few extra letters on that cake and then some\u2026<\/p>\n

Out of all the 30th birthdays you\u2019ll have in life, John, we hope this one is your best!  It was just too much fun!  I guess you had to be there\u2026 maybe you\u2019re following this late-night story I\u2019m trying to tell you, maybe not.  Who knows?  Regardless, we got a cheaper cake and priceless entertainment!  That\u2019s what you call a win-win!<\/p>\n

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Happiest 30th Birthday, John, lol!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  We had so much fun weekend before last with my parents and brother\u2019s sweet family celebrating John\u2019s big 30th birthday!  Nancy, Saylor (4 months), Harper (2 years 2 months), and John Boy are a ladies and gentleman kind of family too (no little boys)!  Anna Kate, Harper, Noelle, and Rose had the time of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33787"}],"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=33787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34249,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33787\/revisions\/34249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pondfam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}