{"id":10525,"date":"2016-05-13T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=10525"},"modified":"2016-05-11T16:54:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T21:54:01","slug":"mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=10525","title":{"rendered":"Mother&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/family-picture-for-mothers-day-R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10528\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/family-picture-for-mothers-day-R.jpg\" alt=\"family picture for mothers day R\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/family-picture-for-mothers-day-R.jpg 683w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/family-picture-for-mothers-day-R-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had an exceptional Mother&#8217;s Day weekend. \u00a0Some of the highlights were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Got a nice family picture of us all dressed up. \u00a0Yup, that picture above&#8211;isn&#8217;t it cute?<\/li>\n<li>Jen brought me Caribou coffee&#8211;yummmmm&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>Went to the musical &#8220;Into the Woods&#8221; with Chloe (it was put on at a church here in town)<\/li>\n<li>Enjoyed Root beer floats<\/li>\n<li>Went with a group of church ladies to the Salt Caves in Minneapolis and then coffee afterwards<\/li>\n<li>Talked to my Mom<\/li>\n<li>Spent time outside in the gorgeous sunshine playing with the kids<\/li>\n<li>Jen came over and watched Maddie during church so she could get an excellent nap<\/li>\n<li>Went out to eat at Chili&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>Tim gave me the best card <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> roses <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">and<\/span> a Ninja! \u00a0(more on that below)<\/li>\n<li>We watched Ant Man. \u00a0It&#8217;s hilarious.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mother-day-with-kiddos-R.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10529\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mother-day-with-kiddos-R.jpg\" alt=\"mother day with kiddos R\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mother-day-with-kiddos-R.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/mother-day-with-kiddos-R-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See? \u00a0It was an amazing weekend!<\/p>\n<p>Tim got me a Ninja blender&#8211;this was super exciting for me, because I had been hinting (not so subtly) that I would love a blender that had more &#8220;umph&#8221; to mix up our smoothies. \u00a0The ice and frozen fruit was starting to take a toll on my little wimpy blender. \u00a0If I used it too long (I mean like more than 30 sec.) it would start to smell like burning electrical, and ooze black liquid. \u00a0Yeah, never a good quality in a blender. \u00a0But in my sad-little-blenders&#8217; defense, we did get it when we got married, so there <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">could<\/span> be a life expectancy on blenders, I suppose. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Either way, I LOVE my new blender. \u00a0It&#8217;s awesome. \u00a0An my favorite feature so far is that it came with some individual blending cups, so I can make myself a single serving right in the cup and then flip it over and viola! I just drink it right in that cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an exceptional Mother&#8217;s Day weekend. \u00a0Some of the highlights were: Got a nice family picture of us all dressed up. \u00a0Yup, that picture above&#8211;isn&#8217;t it cute? Jen brought me Caribou coffee&#8211;yummmmm&#8230;. Went to the musical &#8220;Into the Woods&#8221; with Chloe (it was put on at a church here in town) Enjoyed Root beer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10525"}],"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=10525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10531,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10525\/revisions\/10531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}