{"id":620,"date":"2011-01-24T17:09:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T23:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=620"},"modified":"2011-01-24T17:09:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T23:09:17","slug":"christmas-in-cove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Cove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Christmas was at our house.<br \/>\nMost of my family was able to come, as were Dave&#8217;s cousin and his family. It was pretty chaotic, but lots of fun. We had a brunch and a dinner on Christmas Eve, then some family spent the night and we read Luke 2 that night and did stockings and such on Christmas morning. It was fun to have 14 stockings line our mantle Christmas morning. And just have everyone together.<\/p>\n<p>Bridget at the kid table&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas01.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Autumn&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas02.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Francine&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas03.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don and Holly&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas04.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dave and Dan&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas05.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dixie and Karla&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas06.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Food&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas07.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stockings hung by the chimney with care&#8230; and HILARIOUS white elephant gifts (paintings)&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas08.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bridget&#8217;s letter to Santa&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas09.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karla, Abby, and Bridget&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas10.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Illyana&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas11.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dave&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas12.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spencer, Illyana, and Abby&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas13.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Grandpa had a ball pulling them around the house on the sled. They loved it too!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas14.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bridget, Spencer, and Abby&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas15.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The kids in the first fort we built! (Santa brought Crazy Forts for Christmas)&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas16.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas17.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01.24_Christmas18.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These pictures are only a fraction of the pictures I took that night. I didn&#8217;t get one with everyone in it, but there were about 25 different people at our house on Christmas Eve!!<br \/>\nIn attendance&#8230; Dad, Mom, Tina, Dave, Bridget, Spencer, Abby, Livia, Teylor, Ethan, Kyler, Donald, Holly, Isaac, Karla, Brian, Alice, Chris, Illyana, Francine, Dixie, Dan, Emily, and Autumn. We missed Barry, Wyatt, and Grandma Harmer due to various illness.<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas day, some of my family was able to spend the morning with us, and that afternoon Dave&#8217;s parents came up to visit.<\/p>\n<p>It was altogether a fabulous Christmas!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, Christmas was at our house. Most of my family was able to come, as were Dave&#8217;s cousin and his family. It was pretty chaotic, but lots of fun. We had a brunch and a dinner on Christmas Eve, then some family spent the night and we read Luke 2 that night and did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-family-life","category-siblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}