{"id":5241,"date":"2012-07-12T21:32:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T02:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=5241"},"modified":"2012-07-12T21:32:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-13T02:32:58","slug":"happy-anniversary-9-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=5241","title":{"rendered":"Happy Anniversary (9 Years!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is our 9th anniversary.\u00a0 It’s amazing how quickly 9 years has flown by!\u00a0 We were reminiscing about the years and everything that has changed over the years… new jobs, graduations, new house, new dog, lots of home-remodeling, two kids, new cars… well you get the idea.\u00a0 We were both astounded when we realized that we’ve been living in this house for 8 years<\/span> now!\u00a0 We moved in just before our first anniversary–we were so young!\u00a0 This was just going to be a starter home that we moved out of before we had a family… haha!\u00a0 I guess not!\u00a0 We’ve done so much over the years to this house, and even though we are busting at the seams I have such an attachment to this house.\u00a0 I went looking at houses online this morning (just for fun!) and I have to say it doesn’t look like we’ll be moving any time soon.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Tim took me out to Olive Garden tonight and I had the cheese ravioli–yummmmmm… it was a delightful (kid-free!) evening.<\/p>\n

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Look at my adorable insulated bread stick doggy-bag!<\/p><\/div>\n

I decided for our 9th that I would make something for Tim that he could use for a long time.\u00a0 Traditionally gifts for this year are “ceramic or wicker.”\u00a0 Yeah, those are weird materials.\u00a0 But I really wanted to use my creative side and not spend too much money, so this is what I came up with:<\/p>\n

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Tim's very own Candy Jar--filled with his favorite candy, of course (Starburst Jelly Beans) and etched with my cool "modified" Mountain Dew logo<\/p><\/div>\n

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I know it's technically not ceramic, but glass was cheaper! And since it's hard to see on the glass, here's the sketch of my new design based off of the mountain dew logo. <\/p><\/div>\n

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Here's the original logo design for those of you who don't have hundreds of cans strewn about your house... \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n

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I was a bit disappointed in the finished product with the glass etching, but it was my first attempt at it--and I ran into a TON of problems along the way, so with that in mind, I would say it turned out pretty well!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Then, just for fun, I wrapped it in gushers. Haha!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today is our 9th anniversary.\u00a0 It’s amazing how quickly 9 years has flown by!\u00a0 We were reminiscing about the years and everything that has changed over the years… new jobs, graduations, new house, new dog, lots of home-remodeling, two kids, new cars… well you get the idea.\u00a0 We were both astounded when we realized that […]<\/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\/5241"}],"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=5241"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5274,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5241\/revisions\/5274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}