{"id":50,"date":"2006-11-27T09:05:24","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2006-12-31T16:55:22","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T22:55:22","slug":"fashion-shows-and-christmas-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Shows and Christmas Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt and I were very excited about Thanksgiving weekend because it was four days with our little family together.\u00c2\u00a0 It was\u00c2\u00a0a very hectic four days with lots of cooking and visiting\u00c2\u00a0and travelling to and from San Antonio in one day\u00c2\u00a0to see Bruce&#8217;s gig (we had a very good time and enjoyed seeing Bruce out with his band very much &#8212; well worth the trip)\u00c2\u00a0and I made myself ill on Friday from eating sweets (I definitely have gestational diabetes &#8212; Matt threw out all the sweets in the house so I wouldn&#8217;t be tempted because they really do make me ill now).\u00c2\u00a0 But even with all the craziness, we had a <em>great <\/em>four-day family weekend.<\/p>\n<p>And we wrapped our weekend on Sunday with putting up Christmas decorations.\u00c2\u00a0 All three of us were wiped out from the previous days, so Matt made himself coffee and made me tea, and he put on Christmas movies. Using caffeine to boost our lagging energy, we put up the decorations.<\/p>\n<p>While putting up decorations, Lily and I put on a fashion show.\u00c2\u00a0 I was trying on a very pretty black dress that Mari, one of Carla&#8217;s co-workers, gave me.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a bit bold to wear because it&#8217;s made of lycra material and proudly displays the baby belly.\u00c2\u00a0 I was adding red ribbon to make it Christmas-y and seeing if it would work as a Christmas dress.\u00c2\u00a0 I kept trying different combinations and asking Matt what he thought (Matt continued to put up Christmas lights all around the living room with Christmas movies playing in the background while Lily and I played with clothes).<\/p>\n<p>So while I was trying on clothes and prancing in front of the mirror and showing Matt different choices, Lily started doing the same thing.\u00c2\u00a0 I think she came up with a lovely ensemble.<\/p>\n<div id=\"photo_v\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2006\/11\/Lily_underwear_socks_26Nov2006.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLily showing Daddy the clothes she picked out.<br \/>\n26 November 2006<\/div>\n<p>We also have pictures of Lily decorating the tree.\u00c2\u00a0 It was her first time to put Christmas baubles on the Christmas tree and she had a very good time.<\/p>\n<div id=\"photo_v\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2006\/11\/Lily_Christmas_tree_26Nov2006_2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLily decorating a Christmas tree for the first time.<br \/>\n26 November 2006<\/div>\n<table style=\"height: 1px\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\u00c2\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div id=\"photo_h\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2006\/11\/Lily_Christmas_tree_26Nov2006.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nLily decorating a Christmas tree for the first time.<br \/>\n26 November 2006<\/div>\n<p>The Christmas season has begun. Merry Christmas. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt and I were very excited about Thanksgiving weekend because it was four days with our little family together.\u00c2\u00a0 It was\u00c2\u00a0a very hectic four days with lots of cooking and visiting\u00c2\u00a0and travelling to and from San Antonio in one day\u00c2\u00a0to see Bruce&#8217;s gig (we had a very good time and enjoyed seeing Bruce out with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}