{"id":45,"date":"2008-12-28T16:56:49","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T00:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dansmith.cc\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2008-12-28T17:04:07","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T01:04:07","slug":"christmas-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Christmas celebration!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas!\u00a0 I certainly did!\u00a0 My brother Dave picked me up at my house at around 12:30PM on the 24th of December.\u00a0 We braved a bit a traffic on our way to our parents house in La Crescenta<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We arrived after Sally & Roger did, so Dave & I needed to take a few breaks before secretly wrapping our gifts without the little girls finding out what they have received!<\/p>\n

We enjoyed a tasty dinner of burritos and tamales, but not before stuffing ourselves full of cookies \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 After dinner, we unwrapped presents.\u00a0 Leila made me an aluminum robot.\u00a0 It’s pretty cool.\u00a0 I’ve placed it in my room.\u00a0 We had a standard gift exchange, and Jenny<\/a>‘s boyfriend, Gavin<\/a>, bought me an iTunes gift card, which is always very useful!<\/p>\n

We also had a joke-gift white elephant exchange.\u00a0 I scored with a handheld 100 vs one electronic handheld game.\u00a0 The best present was brought by Sally, and it was a football which held snacks.\u00a0 Each time the football was opened, it played an NFL-themed song.\u00a0 Leila was happiest with her gift of a 5 pound chocolate Easter Bunny.\u00a0 She wouldn’t let anyone get near it.\u00a0 Keana was able to open up more presents than anyone else!<\/p>\n

I bought a few books for Keana and Leila, and I also bought them some Remote Controlled Helicopters.\u00a0 I thought that they would really like them, but they both weren’t too excited about that gift when they opened them.\u00a0 Sally was amazed, and she was pretty stoked, so hopefully they enjoy those presents!<\/p>\n

On Christmas Morning I woke up and opened up our stockings.\u00a0 We were given the standard stuff (toothpaste, shampoo, etc).\u00a0 I also found out my parents gave me some new lock cores for my Yakima rack, and some random binoculars.\u00a0 (4×30)<\/p>\n

Later, we opened presents.\u00a0 My parents also bought me an iPod Nano (to give me something to ski\/run with) and a really cool Coleman Fishing Pen<\/a>.\u00a0 My brother also bought me an iPod Nano (4G), but I took it back to Fry’s and bought an Airport Extreme Base Station instead.<\/p>\n

I bought Dave some Tahitian beer and a bottle of Scotch<\/a>.\u00a0 Dave & I pooled our money together to get some ceiling speakers for my parents.\u00a0 They weren’t really sure what they wanted, so we owe them a rain-check.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, I’m lucky to have a great family!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas!\u00a0 I certainly did!\u00a0 My brother Dave picked me up at my house at around 12:30PM on the 24th of December.\u00a0 We braved a bit a traffic on our way to our parents house in La Crescenta. We arrived after Sally & Roger did, so Dave & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dansmith.cc\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}