{"id":1922,"date":"2014-12-03T21:10:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T02:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2015-01-16T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T00:00:28","slug":"the-making-of-the-2014-obrien-family-christmas-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1922","title":{"rendered":"The Making of the 2014 O&#8217;Brien Family Christmas Card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BYQrIKdpREE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no secret that we love Christmas- everything about it. \u00c2\u00a0From decorating to the Christmas Pageant to the many family traditions in between, it&#8217;s our favorite season. \u00c2\u00a0So it should come as no surprise that our family finds a way to share our joy and excitement, and hopefully make a few people smile, with our Christmas card. \u00c2\u00a0We like others to know they are thought of at this special time and what better way than with a good laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Two years ago, when Brendan was old enough to start giving input, we began talking about &#8220;fun&#8221; Christmas cards. \u00c2\u00a0That year our theme was <a title=\"2012 card\" href=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1028\">&#8220;Deck the Halls&#8221;<\/a> complete with Brendan taped to a wall. \u00c2\u00a0Last year Aidan was upside down on a ladder while both kids were tangled in lights. \u00c2\u00a0We started thinking in August about what we could do this year.<\/p>\n<p>Our initial plan\u00c2\u00a0was &#8220;All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0Back in August Bren had a wiggly front tooth. \u00c2\u00a0It seemed like the timing would be perfect. \u00c2\u00a0The wiggly tooth just fell out two weeks ago and the second front tooth is still wiggly. \u00c2\u00a0Clearly there was a need for a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0back up plan.<\/p>\n<p>While talking about Christmas\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"2013 Christmas\" href=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1491\">things we did last year<\/a>, going to <em>A Christmas Story<\/em> the musical came up. \u00c2\u00a0Perfect! \u00c2\u00a0Our boys are the same age as the Ralphie and Randy! \u00c2\u00a0Ideas began flying and the next thing you know pieces of\u00c2\u00a0a leg lamp and a pink bunny costume were being delivered to our house!<\/p>\n<p>We put together this video of the making of our Christmas card since it became such a fun project. \u00c2\u00a0We hope you enjoy it!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas-story.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1954 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas-story-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"christmas story\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas-story-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas-story-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PS We now have a new Christmas decoration- a leg lamp!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s no secret that we love Christmas- everything about it. \u00c2\u00a0From decorating to the Christmas Pageant to the many family traditions in between, it&#8217;s our favorite season. \u00c2\u00a0So it should come as no surprise that our family finds a way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/?p=1922\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1955,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/1955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obriensr.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}