{"id":113,"date":"2008-12-27T19:38:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T00:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ardoria.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2012-05-29T14:46:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T19:46:25","slug":"the-holiday-rundown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"The Holiday Rundown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Big<\/a><\/dt>\n
Big Christmas Tree<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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Small Christmas Tree<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas.\u00a0 Christmas Eve was spent at home getting ready for the\u00a0 Big Day!\u00a0 Last minute baking and some precooking.\u00a0 I managed to burn up another mixer!!!\u00a0 It kind of sent me into a tizzy since I had plans to make a dessert for after Christmas dinner but that was not going to happen.\u00a0 Then it was all about getting everyone’s gifts together and under the trees and hanging the stockings.<\/p>\n

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\"Stockings<\/a><\/dt>\n
Stockings Hung with Care<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

This year I painted paper mache sleighs for gift baskets for our parents.\u00a0 I like putting together gift baskets and this year I found these sleighs and thought they would work out great.\u00a0 I like how they turned out but like everything around the holidays, I tend to push things to the last minute .\u00a0 I am vowing that next year if I paint or make any gifts that they will have to be done a lot earlier….<\/p>\n

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\"Sleighs\"<\/a><\/dt>\n
Sleighs<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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\"sleigh\"<\/a><\/dt>\n
Back of Sleigh<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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Side of Sleigh<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

We had a very nice Christmas.\u00a0 Our son every year announces, “this is the best Christmas ever!” and this year was no different. \u00a0 He is a Christmas fanatic.\u00a0 We spent Christmas day here at home with my parents and Brandon’s parents.\u00a0 We had a very nice day.\u00a0 I look forward to having everyone at Christmas.\u00a0 We eat lots, open gifts, visit and eat some more.\u00a0 Then when our parents go home there’s no time to relax because it’s time for Brandon and me to play with our son and all his new things.\u00a0 We all received wonderful gifts and I got a stand mixer!!!!!\u00a0 No more burning up my mixer every time I bake.\u00a0 It at least has a two year warranty so if I do burn it up I can return it!!<\/p>\n

Here are some assorted pics of our Christmas decorations and some gifts….<\/p>\n

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\"Santa<\/a><\/dt>\n
Santa decorated by son and his friend<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Watering<\/a><\/dt>\n
Watering Can with greenery from around the yard<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Potting<\/a><\/dt>\n
Potting bench with greenery from around the yard<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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\"Greenery<\/a><\/dt>\n
Greenery Arrangement from my sister<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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\"My<\/a><\/dt>\n
My New Bumble from Brandon’s mom and dad\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n
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Our Kitchen Tree<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

This year our son got sick with a cold prior to Christmas and now Brandon is down with the cold\/flu and I am getting it.\u00a0 Every year someone has to be sick over the holidays, this year it’s all of us…. argh!\u00a0 But now it’s time for us to get well and get back to the normal daily grind, well at least until New Years….<\/p>\n

Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n

Melissa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big Christmas Tree Small Christmas Tree I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas.\u00a0 Christmas Eve was spent at home getting ready for the\u00a0 Big Day!\u00a0 Last minute baking and some precooking.\u00a0 I managed to burn up another mixer!!!\u00a0 It kind of sent me into a tizzy since I had plans to make a dessert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[21,298,27,28],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","tag-add-new-tag","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-decorating","tag-christmas-gifts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandonetto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}