{"id":3798,"date":"2011-12-31T20:08:23","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T20:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/?p=3798"},"modified":"2011-12-31T20:13:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T20:13:19","slug":"welcoming-the-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/welcoming-the-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcoming the New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every New Year&#8217;s Eve we hang out with my sister&#8217;s in-laws (Alan&#8217;s parents) and we ring in the new year at their house.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve gone there since I was pregnant with Preston.\u00a0 This year, we will be attending a wonderful wedding for a precious, fun, and very deserving woman, Morgan&#8230;YAY! :)<\/p>\n<p>Since New Year&#8217;s Day is on a Sunday, we are going to push our annual Pancake Breakfast to Monday morning, which is actually Preston&#8217;s birthday.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll have the whole family over (or anyone willing to wake up and join us for brunch), and make our annual &#8220;YEAR&#8221; pancakes, plus celebrate my baby&#8217;s birthday&#8230;2 birds with one stone!\u00a0 Since we&#8217;ll be doing it on Monday, I thought I would post past pics of 2009, 2010, 2011.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll post 2012 next week.<\/p>\n<p>This is such an easy, fun tradition that the kids love, and I love seeing how much they change from year to year.<\/p>\n<p>The pancakes are no work of art.<\/p>\n<p>The kids are a sleepy, pj-wearing mess.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the way New Year&#8217;s morning is supposed to be!<\/p>\n<p>2009-Caleb (1 1\/2), Preston (5 on Jan 2), Lilly Katherine (2 1\/2)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/New-Years-Day-09-5a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3801\" title=\"New Years Day 09 (5a)\" src=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/New-Years-Day-09-5a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/New-Years-Day-09-5a.jpg 640w, http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/New-Years-Day-09-5a-270x300.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a>2010-Preston (6 on Jan 2), Caleb (2 1\/2), Lilly Katherine (3 1\/2), Truett (almost 1), AnnaLeigh (1 on Jan 5)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/New-Years-Day-002a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3802\" title=\"New Years Day 002a\" src=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/New-Years-Day-002a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/New-Years-Day-002a.jpg 640w, http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/New-Years-Day-002a-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a>2011-Truett (almost 2), Caleb (3 1\/2), Lilly Katherine (4 1\/2), Preston (7 on Jan 2), AnnaLeigh (2 on Jan 5)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/New-Years-Day-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3803\" title=\"New Years Day 001\" src=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/New-Years-Day-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/New-Years-Day-001.jpg 640w, http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/New-Years-Day-001-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a>2012 pic to come, then in 2013 there will be 2 more precious babies in the picture!!! :)\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait to see what they are.\u00a0 What a blessing and what a way to ring in the NEW YEAR!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">-kate<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every New Year&#8217;s Eve we hang out with my sister&#8217;s in-laws (Alan&#8217;s parents) and we ring in the new year at their house.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve gone there since I was pregnant with Preston.\u00a0 This year, we will be attending a wonderful wedding for a precious, fun, and very deserving woman, Morgan&#8230;YAY! :) Since New Year&#8217;s Day [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3798"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3807,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3798\/revisions\/3807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}