{"id":11161,"date":"2017-12-22T17:48:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T22:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=11161"},"modified":"2017-12-22T17:48:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T22:48:21","slug":"emma-and-eli-november-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=11161","title":{"rendered":"Emma and Eli: November 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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November got off to a great start when my mom came to visit for the weekend! \u00a0We were so glad to have Mimi in town for a few days. \u00a0We started our visit with a family dinner at Henry\u2019s\u2026the ultimate welcome to Acworth\u2026before Mimi and Emma spent the evening birthday shopping and Clint and I took Eli to the NCCS football game. \u00a0We all had a great time together and on our separate adventures! \u00a0Saturday morning, Emma and I went with Mom up to Cartersville for a Christmas craft fair and then shopped our way around town. \u00a0We found some cute shops and got a jump on some Christmas shopping. \u00a0The evening took us down to Atlanta for a fun dinner at Superica. \u00a0It was great to show Mom one of our favorite Atlanta places as we hung out at the Krog Street market. \u00a0Mom headed home early that Sunday morning. \u00a0After church, we took the kids up to school to play some basketball and wrapped up a great weekend!<\/div>\n
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The next week headed into Emma\u2019s birthday. \u00a0She turned 9 on November 15th and we celebrated for a week! We went out to The Diner (her choice) the night before her birthday on our way to the school art show. \u00a0Emma did a great job drawing her Converse shoe for their 3rd grade shoe project. \u00a0We celebrated Emma\u2019s birthday at school with Moe\u2019s for lunch and her classmates sang Happy Birthday to her. \u00a0Emma has been working hard the last several months to raise money for a return mission trip to Haiti. \u00a0We gave Emma 9 $5 bills and put a different picture of Emma from Haiti on each of the bills. \u00a0She loved it! \u00a0My sister sent Emma some facial masks that she\u2019s been wanting and we had a lot of fun with those too!<\/div>\n
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Clint and Eli had a great time cheering on Georgia Tech at home in a big win over Virginia Tech. \u00a0We have really enjoyed watching Eli fall in love with football. \u00a0He loves to play it all day everyday. \u00a0Right now he is most interested in kicking and he does a good job with the coordination of punting. \u00a0He also loves practicing his tackling! \u00a0Eli and Clint also had fun at the end of the month cheering on the Jackets against Bulldogs. \u00a0Alas, the Dawgs were victorious this year\u2026but our Jacket spirit remains strong!<\/div>\n
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We wrapped up Emma\u2019s birthday week with Thanksgiving celebrations at NCCS. \u00a0Our K4 traditionally does a great Thanksgiving play reminding us of how much we have to be thankful for. \u00a0This year our sweet Eli was one of the \u201cBig and Brave\u201d Native Americans. \u00a0He looked so handsome! \u00a0Clint snapped a great picture after the play of Eli pushing his friends on the tire swing. \u00a0He loves to play outside with his friends! \u00a0Clint also had a chance to be the mystery reader for Eli\u2019s classroom and that was a fun surprise!<\/div>\n
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The Sunday before Thanksgiving we loaded up and headed to Disney World for the week. \u00a0Clint and I got a great deal on a nice condo through the NCCS Auction back in the spring and we had been looking forward to a fun family getaway. \u00a0We arrived in Orlando mid-afternoon and spent the rest of the day getting settled and wandering around Disney Springs. \u00a0Eli was especially happy to find the Under Armour store and both kids were excited about the fake snow falling in the Disney Christmas Tree Forrest.<\/div>\n
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We had a wonderful time at Disney World. \u00a0We intentionally didn\u2019t load up the week so that we could have fun without totally wearing ourselves out. \u00a0We spent Monday at the Magic Kingdom, Tuesday at Hollywood Studies, Wednesday just hanging out at the condo, Thursday (Thanksgiving Day) at the Magic Kingdom, and then drove home on Friday beating the traffic back into Atlanta.\u00a0 We did a lot of familiar things at Disney World, but we did one new thing and it was a blast!\u00a0 I read about the Jedi Training at Hollywood Studios, so we planned to get there early so that we could sign the kids up before all the spots were gone.\u00a0 We arrived at the park before opening and made our plans.\u00a0 Clint was prepared to hustle over to be one of the first in line for Toy Story while the kids and I rushed over to the Jedi Training reservations.\u00a0 We hit the jackpot as both ended up working out!\u00a0 Jedi Training was lots of fun as both kids have developed a bit of an interest in Star Wars.\u00a0 They learned how to use the light sabers and then each kid took a turn fighting Darth Vader.\u00a0 Emma and Eli both did a great job and seemed to be having lots of fun.\u00a0 When Darth Vader confronted Eli, Eli shook his fist at him, and everyone laughed.\u00a0 What a fun memory!<\/div>\n
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As always, Space Mountain, Toy Story, Dinner at the Sci-Fi Drive-In, Tower of Terror, and Seven Dwarfs were big hits\u2026Eli rode Space Mountain for the first time ever and immediately insisted on riding it again and again! \u00a0The weather was beautiful all week and we had a great time together! \u00a0It was a special treat to start Thanksgiving Day with a character breakfast at The Crystal Palace before bumping into sweet friends in line at Peter Pan, and then ending the day with dinner at Cracker Barrel.<\/div>\n
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As soon as we got home, Emma sat down with the computer to journal some of her thoughts from the week. \u00a0We spent the rest of the weekend together cooking and getting ready to jump into the Christmas season! \u00a0We had taco night on Saturday evening and Emma insisted on making Moe\u2019s at Home. \u00a0It was a big hit!<\/div>\n
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November was lots of fun as our girl turned 9, we celebrated both kid\u2019s birthdays at Disney, and we were able to spend lots of time together!<\/div>\n
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November got off to a great start when my mom came to visit for the weekend! \u00a0We were so glad to have Mimi in town for a few days. \u00a0We started our visit with a family dinner at Henry\u2019s\u2026the ultimate welcome to Acworth\u2026before Mimi and Emma spent the evening birthday shopping and Clint and I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35,25,37,12,16,32,18,33,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-creative","category-education","category-eli","category-emma","category-family","category-marriage","category-north-cobb-christian","category-restaurants","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}