{"id":798,"date":"2010-01-17T20:44:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T04:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=798"},"modified":"2010-02-21T14:52:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T22:52:02","slug":"christmas-2009-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=798","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2009, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We headed down to Houston to celebrate a late\u00a0 Christmas and New Year&#8217;s at my sister&#8217;s house. \u00a0We started off with a trip to one of my favorite college hangouts, a tex-mex classic called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chuys.com\/\">Chuy&#8217;s<\/a>. \u00a0We then had a round of Christmas gifts for the kids. \u00a0We took Claire on a visit to see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmns.org\/see_do\/butterfly_center.asp\">butterflies at the Houston Museum of Natural Science<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Will then showed Claire around his trampoline, which she really really enjoyed. \u00a0Not shown in the photos was the stomach flu that went around, but we all managed to get through it relatively unscathed. \u00a0And last but not least we took Claire for her first ice skating adventure at an outdoor rink at the local mall. \u00a0Click on the family group shot below for a slideshow.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"toggleborder\" title=\"slideshow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22311334@N00\/sets\/72157623224557812\/show\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4061\/4280595888_4e6555778b_m.jpg?resize=240%2C171\" alt=\"The whole family at Christmas 2009 in Houston\" width=\"240\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We headed down to Houston to celebrate a late\u00a0 Christmas and New Year&#8217;s at my sister&#8217;s house. \u00a0We started off with a trip to one of my favorite college hangouts, a tex-mex classic called Chuy&#8217;s. \u00a0We then had a round of Christmas gifts for the kids. \u00a0We took Claire on a visit to see\u00a0butterflies at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=798\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas 2009, Texas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,10,12,15,20,35,38,41],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aunt-laura","tag-christmas","tag-claire","tag-grandma-judy","tag-juliet","tag-travel","tag-uncle-rob","tag-will-v"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eQE-cS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}