{"id":770826,"date":"2020-09-12T21:28:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/?p=770826"},"modified":"2020-09-12T21:28:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T21:28:08","slug":"christmas-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/?p=770826","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in September?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we had our 2nd annual Christmas gift family name drawing. Until a couple of years ago Scott and I picked out the gifts for our kids. However, as the kids grew older they expressed a desire to be involved in the gift giving.\u00a0 With 8 kids, having everyone trying to get gives for everyone else would be difficult and expensive. So last year we tried doing a name drawing and it was a wonderful success.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_770828\" style=\"width: 146px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xmas2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-770828\" class=\"wp-image-770828 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xmas2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"149\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-770828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kara&#8217;s first attempt to paint a cake. I hope she practices this some more.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_770827\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xmas1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-770827\" class=\"wp-image-770827 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xmas1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"113\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-770827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Whose name will I get this year?<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_770829\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xmas3.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-770829\" class=\"wp-image-770829 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xmas3-150x148.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-770829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The little ones were very excited about the gifts.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xmas4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-770830\" src=\"http:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/xmas4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we had our 2nd annual Christmas gift family name drawing. Until a couple of years ago Scott and I picked out the gifts for our kids. However, as the kids grew older they expressed a desire to be involved in the gift giving.\u00a0 With 8 kids, having everyone trying to get gives for everyone &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/?p=770826\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":770831,"href":"https:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770826\/revisions\/770831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seedpearl.scottandsarabeth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}