{"id":970,"date":"2008-07-29T14:11:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T21:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=970"},"modified":"2009-07-14T14:39:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T21:39:01","slug":"sunflowers-and-presents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/?p=970","title":{"rendered":"Sunflowers and Presents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin is still working crazy hours so I&#8217;ve been a little short handed around the house.\u00a0 I&#8217;m afraid my posting here has suffered.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 The girls and I have been enjoying our summer though.\u00a0 They may just have their mama&#8217;s gardening gene because they love to help me weed and water and admire all the flowers in our backyard.\u00a0 I decided to encourage this and bought them each their own sunflower plant.\u00a0 They helped me dig the hole, plant, and water them and now every morning they can&#8217;t wait to run outside with their little watering cans and take care of their own flower.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite sweet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/leinasunflower.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/leinasunflower2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/kuliasunflower.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/kuliasunflower2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also received a surprise package in the mail from Nana Walls full of home knit love.\u00a0 She made the girls their very own hooded ponchos!\u00a0 When I opened the package, Leina declared she wanted the blue one and Kulia wanted the rainbow.\u00a0 Which was perfect since the blue was larger.\u00a0 Phew!\u00a0 Don&#8217;t you just love it when it all works out?\u00a0 So here are the girls modeling their ponchos.\u00a0 They were quite confused by the lack of arm holes at first but quickly discovered how comfy they were and didn&#8217;t want to take them off.\u00a0 Look out fall weather, we are armed and ready for you!\u00a0 Thanks Nana Walls!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/leinaponcho.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/leinaponcho2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/kuliaponcho.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/kuliaponcho2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin is still working crazy hours so I&#8217;ve been a little short handed around the house.\u00a0 I&#8217;m afraid my posting here has suffered.\u00a0 Sigh.\u00a0 The girls and I have been enjoying our summer though.\u00a0 They may just have their mama&#8217;s gardening gene because they love to help me weed and water and admire all the [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kulia","category-leina"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Kqhb-fE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","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=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrissierocks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}