{"id":6629,"date":"2013-07-14T21:35:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T02:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?p=6629"},"modified":"2013-07-14T21:35:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T02:35:52","slug":"happy-anniversary-to-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/?p=6629","title":{"rendered":"Happy Anniversary to us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday Tim and I celebrated our 10th Anniversary. Yay for us!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=6630\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6630\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6630\" alt=\"DSC_0016\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0016-1024x680.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0016-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0016-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing how much has happened in the past 10 years&#8211;and how fast the time seems to whiz by.\u00a0 Marriage has been harder than I expected but so much sweeter than I could have imagined as well.\u00a0 I feel tremendously blessed:\u00a0 Blessed to have a husband willing to stick by me no matter what.\u00a0 Blessed to have such cheerful, darling children.\u00a0 Blessed to have a roof over our house (at least for now!).\u00a0 Blessed to be able to have a career I enjoy.\u00a0 I could go on an on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and did I mention&#8230;.blessed to have a husband who will be silly and laugh with me too!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=6631\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6631\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6631\" alt=\"DSC_0017\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0017-1024x680.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0017-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0017-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed a wonderful date (thanks to Patsy for offering to babysit for us!) at Cheesecake factory.\u00a0 Then we walked around the southdale mall looking for the perfect anniversary gift.\u00a0 I was really hoping that we would be able to do something really special to commemorate 10 years together, but alas, we are broke in the process of trying to get out from under our house, so we had to opt for a gift of $20 or less.\u00a0 It&#8217;s all good though, because we had a really fun time walking around the mall looking at our options.\u00a0 Believe it or not, we both agreed on&#8230;. wait for it&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>our very first family Bingo set!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/?attachment_id=6632\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6632\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6632\" alt=\"DSC_0025\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeusacademy.com\/family\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0025-1024x680.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0025-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/DSC_0025-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We agreed that, while Bingo is not the most romantic anniversary gift&#8230; it is something we could use for many years, and have fun as a family, and it cost exactly $20.\u00a0 So, that&#8217;s what we got!\u00a0 And the kids LOVE LOVE LOVE it!\u00a0 In fact Chloe was so excited that she could hardly go to bed that night&#8230; and the next morning Josiah played with the wheel for at least 45 min. before I pried it out of his hands.<\/p>\n<p>Tune back in tomorrow for the exciting conclusion to our hand railing adventure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday Tim and I celebrated our 10th Anniversary. Yay for us!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;s amazing how much has happened in the past 10 years&#8211;and how fast the time seems to whiz by.\u00a0 Marriage has been harder than I expected but so much sweeter than I could have imagined as well.\u00a0 I feel tremendously blessed:\u00a0 Blessed [&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\/6629"}],"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=6629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6635,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions\/6635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/friesens.inkingmythinking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}