{"id":973,"date":"2007-10-23T10:09:50","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/23\/family-update-2\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T15:09:50","slug":"family-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/23\/family-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi folks.<\/p>\n

It’s been a busy busy busy week and weekend which has cut into my posting schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 Nikki and I went to Syracuse this past weekend to get our Christmas shopping done.\u00c2\u00a0 We had a great time and were quite successful, and thanks go to Nanny and Poppy for watching the kids and dog while we were away.\u00c2\u00a0 It was fun to get away and do some serious people watching in the States.\u00c2\u00a0 Nikki and I both agreed that most people were extra friendly and the Carousel Mall there is simply humungous.<\/p>\n

So we got the kids picked up again and the only small hiccup was that Quinn didn’t want to leave Nanny’s house.\u00c2\u00a0 In fact he hid under the covers in the bed and asked Nanny if we had left yet, hoping we wouldn’t notice that he wasn’t with us.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s a good problem to have, I suppose, and it certainly says a lot about how much fun they have there.<\/p>\n

On another note, Jordy has been saving her allowance money for an iPod Nano and last night we decided she was close enough to actually order the darn thing.\u00c2\u00a0 Her only condition was that she be allowed to hold all of her money she has been saving before she spends it all.\u00c2\u00a0 We got some pictures of that which will be posted at some point.\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say she is more than thrilled and agonized over the engraving.\u00c2\u00a0 So now it’s a long, painful wait for it to get here.<\/p>\n

So there you go, a little update for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi folks. It’s been a busy busy busy week and weekend which has cut into my posting schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 Nikki and I went to Syracuse this past weekend to get our Christmas shopping done.\u00c2\u00a0 We had a great time and were … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-fH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}