{"id":965,"date":"2008-06-22T11:05:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T18:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=965"},"modified":"2009-07-14T14:42:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T21:42:43","slug":"good-times-rollin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"Good Times Rollin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pops and the Toots have arrived!\u00a0 Hallelujah!\u00a0 Let the choir of angels sing!\u00a0 The Grandparents are here!\u00a0 They even brought some lovely hot weather with them so we decided to open up the backyard.\u00a0 While Tutu entertained the minions, Papa &amp; I set up the deck for summer.\u00a0 This involved dragging out tables and chairs and sun umbrellas.\u00a0 By the end of the day, our backyard was ready to play.<\/p>\n<p>We broke out the croquet set and the art easel.\u00a0 The kids adored both.\u00a0 They loved whacking the balls and creating masterpieces.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/paintgirls.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Leina went with a realistic landscape full of flowers and butterflies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/paintleina.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By the time she finished her pictures, she had worked up quite a sweat and had to cool off swinging for quite a while.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/paintleina1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kulia, on the other hand, took her painting very very seriously.\u00a0 Long after Leina had skipped off to the swings, Kulia was still diligently working on her brush strokes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/paintkulia.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I like to call her finish project &#8220;Jellyfish at Sunset.&#8221;\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite a smashing modern statement in my mind.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/paintkulia1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Every time my kids make art, I wish my sister was here to see them.\u00a0 I just know she&#8217;d love to dip in her brush and join right in.\u00a0 They loved showing off their creations to their adoring grandparents and the grandparents loved ooohing and ahhhing over every color choice.\u00a0 All in all, a very satisfying day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pops and the Toots have arrived!\u00a0 Hallelujah!\u00a0 Let the choir of angels sing!\u00a0 The Grandparents are here!\u00a0 They even brought some lovely hot weather with them so we decided to open up the backyard.\u00a0 While Tutu entertained the minions, Papa &amp; I set up the deck for summer.\u00a0 This involved dragging out tables and [&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":[17,15,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kulia","category-leina","category-papa-and-tutu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-fz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}