{"id":614,"date":"2009-12-25T23:38:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T03:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/?p=614"},"modified":"2010-01-09T23:49:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T03:49:31","slug":"christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/?p=614","title":{"rendered":"Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas.   Things were different this year with a new baby in the house.   We had a quiet Christmas morning staying at home and opening gifts by ourselves, then had Oma &#038; Opa, plus Uncle B and Auntie V, and cousin Z over for the afternoon and evening.   I attempted to cook a roast beef for supper.  It was ok, except that it wasn&#8217;t done soon enough, so we cut it up and put it in the over in pieces.  This sped things up.  It was a nice holiday season.  Here are some of the pictures.<\/p>\n<p>R opening J&#8217;s gifts<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Albert-J-R-and-Opa-IMG_2776.jpg \" rel=\"lightbox[yapb]\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/yet-another-photoblog\/lib\/phpThumb-1.7.9\/phpThumb.php?w=200&amp;fltr[]=usm|30|0.5|3&amp;src=\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Albert-J-R-and-Opa-IMG_2776.jpg \" alt=\"A bit-o-sass\" title=\"A bit-o-sass\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>J looking his new bear in the eye<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/J-looking-at-his-new-polar-bear-IMG_2761.jpg \" rel=\"lightbox[yapb]\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/yet-another-photoblog\/lib\/phpThumb-1.7.9\/phpThumb.php?w=200&amp;fltr[]=usm|30|0.5|3&amp;src=\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/J-looking-at-his-new-polar-bear-IMG_2761.jpg \" alt=\"A bit-o-sass\" title=\"A bit-o-sass\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Uncle B, Auntie V and Z reading a book<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Brian-Verena-and-Zoya-read-a-book-IMG_2766.jpg \" rel=\"lightbox[yapb]\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/yet-another-photoblog\/lib\/phpThumb-1.7.9\/phpThumb.php?w=200&amp;fltr[]=usm|30|0.5|3&amp;src=\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Brian-Verena-and-Zoya-read-a-book-IMG_2766.jpg \" alt=\"A bit-o-sass\" title=\"A bit-o-sass\" width=\"200\"><\/a><br \/>\nOma opening her gifts<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Oma-opening-gifts-IMG_2785.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[yapb]\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/yet-another-photoblog\/lib\/phpThumb-1.7.9\/phpThumb.php?w=200&amp;fltr[]=usm|30|0.5|3&amp;src=\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Oma-opening-gifts-IMG_2785.jpg\" alt=\"A bit-o-sass\" title=\"A bit-o-sass\" width=\"200\"><\/a><br \/>\nOpa and J peaking around the corner.  Opa thought it was great fun to peak from behind the wall with J.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Opa-and-J-peeking-around-corner-IMG_2769.jpg \" rel=\"lightbox[yapb]\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/yet-another-photoblog\/lib\/phpThumb-1.7.9\/phpThumb.php?w=200&amp;fltr[]=usm|30|0.5|3&amp;src=\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Opa-and-J-peeking-around-corner-IMG_2769.jpg \" alt=\"A bit-o-sass\" title=\"A bit-o-sass\" width=\"200\"><\/a><br \/>\nR and Zoya are in front of our tree here.  Unfortunately my daughter was in a bad mood and she decided to let me know that in the picture!  Doesn&#8217;t she look miserable!?!?<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Zoya-and-R-by-tree-with-frown-IMG_2793.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[yapb]\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/yet-another-photoblog\/lib\/phpThumb-1.7.9\/phpThumb.php?w=200&amp;fltr[]=usm|30|0.5|3&amp;src=\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Zoya-and-R-by-tree-with-frown-IMG_2793.jpg \" alt=\"A bit-o-sass\" title=\"A bit-o-sass\" width=\"200\"><\/a><br \/>\nAnd here is our most precious gift this year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Joseph-under-the-tree-IMG_2864.jpg \" rel=\"lightbox[yapb]\" style=\"text-decoration:none;border:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/yet-another-photoblog\/lib\/phpThumb-1.7.9\/phpThumb.php?w=200&amp;fltr[]=usm|30|0.5|3&amp;src=\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Joseph-under-the-tree-IMG_2864.jpg \" alt=\"A bit-o-sass\" title=\"A bit-o-sass\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas. Things were different this year with a new baby in the house. We had a quiet Christmas morning staying at home and opening gifts by ourselves, then had Oma &#038; Opa, plus Uncle B and Auntie V, and cousin Z over for the afternoon and evening. I attempted to cook a roast beef for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thingsthatgrowinmygarden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}