{"id":1872,"date":"2014-01-02T06:36:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T06:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2014-01-02T06:36:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T06:36:21","slug":"1872","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/02\/1872\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy New Year! Last night Abe and I watched the entire Salt Lake valley explode into fireworks from our bedroom window. It was beautiful! I remember having New Year’s on my mission (in Salt Lake) and wanting so badly to see the fireworks, and with that memory in mind, I enjoyed the luxury of watching the fireworks a little extra last night.<\/p>\n

After Bikram this morning, I tried to make sure that I was heading into the new year with only positive connotations about everyone I know. To the best of my knowledge, I think I’m heading into the new year with happy and grateful feelings about all of my friends and acquaintances; if I had any official resolutions, the first would be to keep it that way all year long. If you’re in my life and reading this, know that you are appreciated, respected and loved. If you’re in my life and not reading this, then you’re still appreciated, respected and loved…and I’ll have to try to find ways of communicating that throughout this coming year.<\/p>\n

Here are today’s pictures:<\/p>\n

We took the girls to the playground today, since it was actually pretty nice out.<\/p>\n

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In their winter clothes, they made the jogger soooo heavy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lydia<\/a>
Lydia fell asleep on the way to the playground, so Mary got some attention all to herself.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"She<\/a>
She loved going down the slide.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"I<\/a>
I loved cuddling her, but she was wriggling to get down and play some more.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"...and<\/a>
…and then Lydia woke up and bravely walked across the wobbly bridge. I love the way she cautiously holds on (an inherited trait from my side of the family).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After dinner, Lydia was in a snuggly mood.<\/p>\n

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We missed FHE on Monday, so we had it today. We acted out the walls of Jericho three times, and then Abe built a mountain out of pillows which the girls proceeded to repeatedly climb for the next thirty minutes.<\/p>\n

\"Circling<\/a>
Circling the “walls of Jericho.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mary was in heaven climbing this mountain of pillows. She’s a happy girl, but Abe remarked that he’s never seen her that happy…and we suspect she would have kept climbing for days–given the opportunity.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_6180\"<\/a> \"IMG_6185\"<\/a> \"IMG_6182\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Happy New Year! Last night Abe and I watched the entire Salt Lake valley explode into fireworks from our bedroom window. It was beautiful! I remember having New Year’s on my mission (in Salt Lake) and wanting so badly to see the fireworks, and with that memory in mind, I enjoyed the luxury of watching … Continue reading Happy New Year!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,21,30,31,32,34,40,49,52,58,63,69,77,87,95,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abe-pics","category-book-of-mormon","category-cooking","category-ensign","category-errands","category-exercise","category-family-movie-at-home","category-floor-time-with-my-children","category-k","category-lily-pics","category-lydia-pics","category-mary-pics","category-old-testament","category-piano-practice","category-reading-to-my-children","category-scriptures","category-time-outside","category-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}