{"id":49,"date":"2008-12-26T10:32:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-26T18:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/?p=49"},"modified":"2009-01-18T11:14:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T19:14:48","slug":"christmas-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yongpong\/sets\/72157611740878181\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"In front of the tree\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3111\/3144946076_d4d00be519_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christmas 2008 was a lot of fun, and very eventful.\u00a0 We started out on the 23rd, heading up to the Pong Sr. residence.\u00a0 As always, my mom likes to prepare food enough for fifteen people to eat, when there are only six of us!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gene and Kristine showed up later that night and we all took a trip over to visit the Gonzalez&#8217;.\u00a0 Wish I had brought the camera for some pics &#8211; but I forgot.\u00a0 We got to see the whole Gonzalez clan, as well as the Mullen&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Getting home that night and ready for sleep, Oliver promptly mauled Gene&#8217;s hand as he was trying to get into bed.\u00a0 That gave us something to take care of for an hour or so &#8211; psycho dog..<\/p>\n<p>This:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yongpong\/3143993035\/in\/set-72157611740878181\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"This dog is crazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3200\/3143993035_20ab5269a0_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leads to this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yongpong\/3144792236\/in\/set-72157611740878181\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pain\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3109\/3144792236_549af05511_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a great Christmas Eve &#8211; too lazy to narrate any more on it, so here&#8217;s a\u00a0pic before we took of to the Born parental household:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yongpong\/sets\/72157611740878181\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Standing in front of the tree\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3122\/3144961196_f2d510fd5d_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yongpong\/sets\/72157611740878181\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Strange guy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3222\/3143989827_669987c985_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yongpong\/sets\/72157611740878181\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Oh-face\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3204\/3144880488_f71571763b_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yongpong\/sets\/72157611740878181\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Abuse!\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3291\/3144957976_cbe1a7cba2_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yongpong\/3144029141\/in\/set-72157611740878181\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"I bring a smile to Genes face\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3077\/3144029141_47dc6828f3_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yongpong\/3144123835\/in\/set-72157611740878181\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Cheeky Monkey\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3243\/3144123835_72bb97e37d_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now on to the Born&#8217;s!\u00a0 We always spend Christmas Eve with my parents and Christmas Day with Jen&#8217;s parents.\u00a0 Thank goodness they&#8217;e only 40 minutes apart&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I wish that I had gotten a group picture of everyone at the Born&#8217;s, but its always so early that I can&#8217;t control my own body functions, let alone think.<\/p>\n<p>some random pics:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yongpong\/sets\/72157611747515313\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Luscious wine!\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3107\/3144376191_ff9ca26726_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yongpong\/sets\/72157611747515313\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Diego, the wonder dog\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3241\/3145398242_de00cdf6b4_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yongpong\/sets\/72157611747515313\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Volumizing Lift\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3251\/3144367261_37b7f93d38_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"This must be a box of bricks\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3111\/3144245715_77ffda4376_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yongpong\/sets\/72157611747515313\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Drowning out the voices in his head\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3226\/3144236309_67b5219345_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yongpong\/sets\/72157611747515313\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Jen and Grama\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3234\/3145029188_513d307616_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yongpong\/sets\/72157611747515313\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Yay!\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3226\/3144193651_02a35885fe_d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We had such a great time this Christmas, and even had a day after all the visiting to hang out at home and regroup before the following week and its two-day work schedule. Thanks to everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 2008 was a lot of fun, and very eventful.\u00a0 We started out on the 23rd, heading up to the Pong Sr. residence.\u00a0 As always, my mom likes to prepare food enough for fifteen people to eat, when there are only six of us!\u00a0 Gene and Kristine showed up later that night and we all &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chorpie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}