{"id":870,"date":"2007-10-22T12:33:35","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T16:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/wordpress\/?p=870"},"modified":"2007-10-22T12:33:35","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T16:33:35","slug":"traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"Traditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you love traditions?  I love the feeling of continuity it brings when I bring out certain decorations or make a special dish for dinner.  It just gives you a sense of time.  Now that my girls are here, I&#8217;m always looking for traditions they can remember and love too.  One of these is our annual pumkin run.<\/p>\n<p>Right after Leina turned 2, we heard about a little local farm that had a nice pumpkin field, animals to pet and a little hay maze.  It&#8217;s not the ginormous affair that happens on Sauvie Island.  It&#8217;s much calmer and smaller but it suits us just fine.  Even better, they have some cut outs that they put out every year and I make sure to snap a picture of the girls in front of them.  This is our third trip so I finally have enough pictures for comparison and man, how time flies.<\/p>\n<p>Here we are our first year, 2005, when Leina was only a 2 years old.  Kulia was lugged around in the backpack and didn&#8217;t make it into the shot.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/pictures\/leina05.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Kulia joined in the fun.  She was a wee thing but totally game.  Can you believe how much Leina grew in just one year?!?!?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/pictures\/girls06.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Today, we added the 2007 entry to our montage.  Now it&#8217;s Kulia&#8217;s turn to amaze me with her growth spurt.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/pictures\/girls07.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>When we got home, they wanted to do some dress-up and I snapped these pictures.  They have nothing to do with Halloween but since this has turned into a photo blog today, I thought I&#8217;d throw them in for free!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/pictures\/dresses.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/pictures\/kuliascarf.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you love traditions? I love the feeling of continuity it brings when I bring out certain decorations or make a special dish for dinner. It just gives you a sense of time. Now that my girls are here, I&#8217;m always looking for traditions they can remember and love too. One of these is our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-e2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}