{"id":10062,"date":"2015-12-30T21:40:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T03:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=10062"},"modified":"2015-12-30T21:40:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T03:40:49","slug":"and-then-it-was-christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=10062","title":{"rendered":"And then it was Christmas Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were many memorable moments on Christmas Day&#8211;enjoying time together with the Friesen side of the family&#8211;eating and laughing and opening gifts. \u00a0However, one of my favorites was bright and early before we opened gifts Tim read the Christmas story from the Bible to the kids. \u00a0He had Chloe write down all the characters (including animals) and then she assigned roles and we acted it out again. \u00a0It was fun.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10068\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kids-christmas-jammies-2015-R.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10068\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10068\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kids-christmas-jammies-2015-R.jpg\" alt=\"Traditional Christmas Eve Jammies!\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kids-christmas-jammies-2015-R.jpg 680w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/kids-christmas-jammies-2015-R-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10068\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Traditional Christmas Eve Jammies!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10067\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/funny-outfit-R.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10067\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10067\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/funny-outfit-R.jpg\" alt=\"Jen's crazy outfit!  If you've ever seen the movie &quot;Elf&quot; you'll understand her sweatshirt.  ;)\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/funny-outfit-R.jpg 680w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/funny-outfit-R-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jen&#8217;s crazy outfit! If you&#8217;ve ever seen the movie &#8220;Elf&#8221; you&#8217;ll understand her sweatshirt. \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10066\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/funny-outfit-jen-R.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10066\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10066\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/funny-outfit-jen-R.jpg\" alt=\"Her onsie says it all!\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/funny-outfit-jen-R.jpg 680w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/funny-outfit-jen-R-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Her onsie says it all!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10071\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/veggie-tree-R.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10071\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10071\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/veggie-tree-R.jpg\" alt=\"We had a vast array of delicious appetizers--and this year I assembled a Veggie Christmas tree to help with all afternoon snacking... \" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/veggie-tree-R.jpg 680w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/veggie-tree-R-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We had a vast array of delicious appetizers&#8211;and this year I assembled a Veggie Christmas tree to help with all afternoon snacking&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10065\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/family-christmas-2015-c-R.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10065\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10065\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/family-christmas-2015-c-R.jpg\" alt=\"The whole crew!\" width=\"960\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/family-christmas-2015-c-R.jpg 960w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/family-christmas-2015-c-R-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The whole crew!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were many memorable moments on Christmas Day&#8211;enjoying time together with the Friesen side of the family&#8211;eating and laughing and opening gifts. \u00a0However, one of my favorites was bright and early before we opened gifts Tim read the Christmas story from the Bible to the kids. \u00a0He had Chloe write down all the characters (including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10072,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10062\/revisions\/10072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}