{"id":1746,"date":"2010-01-02T07:33:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T15:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2010-01-02T07:33:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T15:33:41","slug":"happy-birthday-to-me-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/?p=1746","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday To Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well December 23, 2009 has come and gone and so has another birthday.  But what a birthday it was!  It started out with my wonderful husband making me a homemade red velvet cake.  He did such a fabulous job!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0633.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0633-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_0633\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1747\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0636.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0636-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_0636\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1748\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>[My three layers cooling and waiting to be frosted.]<\/em>  <\/p>\n<p>It was getting late so I went to bed and this amazing guy stayed up and finished the project.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning I was greeting with lots of kisses and birthday wishes.  Very nice indeed.  Then my friends Li-Li and Louise came over with lunch.  We ate and chatted.  It was so fun!  Scott came home early and we went with Roberta and family over to Veronic&#8217;s house (one of Roberta&#8217;s friends that I have grown to love and so she volunteered to host my birthday dinner).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0639.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0639-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_0639\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1750\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>[Not sure what the fascination is, but we all thought this was totally funny that the kids were drinking out of wine glasses, especially my kids!!]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0644.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0644-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_0644\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1751\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>[The &#8220;kids&#8221; table.  Notice no Jaime??]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>She was so fancy with her meal preparation and setting of the table.  We all had such a good time!  I felt VERY spoiled!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0646.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0646-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_0646\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1752\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>[Super yummy dinner.  And in the picture it just looks so perfect with all the different colors.  The dinner not only tasted good, it looked and smelled good too!]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0647.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0647-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_0647\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1753\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>[Adult table.  See Jaime??]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After being spoiled the kids played some Wii and the adults chatted around the table.  A truly relaxing time!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0649.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0649-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_0649\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1754\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After that we went into the piano room and sat around singing Christmas carols together.  Another VERY fun thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0653.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0653-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_0653\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1755\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>[Jaime walked right in and enjoyed the piano right away.  She is getting really good and will usually sit at any piano and tink out a tune!]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0660.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0660-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_0660\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1756\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0661.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0661-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_0661\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1757\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After signing we did cake and ice cream and presents.  What generous friends and family I have.  I got my cake and some marshmallow cream from my VERY thoughtful husband (if you only knew how awesome it was for me to get marshmallow cream you&#8217;d realize how awesome Scott is).  From Roberta and fam I got new p.j. bottoms and some fluffy slippers.  Veronic gave me a gift card.  All wonderful, all fun and so memorable.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0666.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0666-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_0666\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1759\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0670.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/img_0670-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"img_0670\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1760\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well December 23, 2009 has come and gone and so has another birthday. But what a birthday it was! It started out with my wonderful husband making me a homemade red velvet cake. He did such a fabulous job!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1761,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unboundpotential.com\/sami\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}