{"id":529,"date":"2006-06-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=529"},"modified":"2006-06-12T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T04:00:00","slug":"graduation-celebrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2006\/06\/graduation-celebrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation Celebrations!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month, our daughter graduates from High School. Because we had some family members in town to celebrate our anniversary this weekend, we decided to extend the celebration to the next day and host a celebration barbecue in our daughter&#8217;s honor. In all, we had 14 people over.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/320\/Dana%27s%20Grad%20BBQ_Norma%27s%20pictures%20005.0.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/>Every great celebration starts with food!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/320\/Dana%27s%20Grad%20BBQ_Norma%27s%20pictures%20008.0.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/>Dana and her Dad were in charge of the cooking.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/320\/Dana%27s%20Grad%20BBQ_Norma%27s%20pictures%20012.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/>The weather was great! We timed the eating perfectly. Mid afternoon after we were through eating, a big storm blew in with wind and rain and chased us inside. We had already eaten and opened gifts so it was ok. It made it challenging for family pictures though as we squeezed into the living room to take the pictures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/1600\/Dana\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/320\/Dana%27s%20Grad%20BBQ_Norma%27s%20pictures%20050.0.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> This is Dana and her very proud grandparents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/1600\/Dana\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/320\/Dana%27s%20Grad%20BBQ_Norma%27s%20pictures%20043.0.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a> This is Dana and my brother&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/1600\/Dana\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/320\/Dana%27s%20Grad%20BBQ_Norma%27s%20pictures%20054.0.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>This is a picture of our son, Matthew, Dana&#8217;s boyfriend, Matthew&#8217;s girlfriend, and Dana.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/1600\/Dana\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/1365\/2049\/320\/Dana%27s%20Grad%20BBQ_Norma%27s%20pictures%20033.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>This is Dana and her godmother &#8211; my aunt, her great aunt. What a treat to have here here for a visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, our daughter graduates from High School. Because we had some family members in town to celebrate our anniversary this weekend, we decided to extend the celebration to the next day and host a celebration barbecue in our daughter&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2006\/06\/graduation-celebrations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}