{"id":7871,"date":"2014-01-13T12:03:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T17:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=7871"},"modified":"2014-01-13T12:03:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T17:03:58","slug":"emma-november-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=7871","title":{"rendered":"Emma: November 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

November was a blast at our house! \u00a0We celebrated\u00a0Emma\u2019s 5th Birthday<\/a>, went to\u00a0Homecoming at Georgia Tech<\/a>, and celebrated Thanksgiving. \u00a0And do we have a lot to be Thankful for!<\/p>\n

Our school<\/a> does a really awesome Veteran\u2019s Day service each year to honor the veterans in our community and to make sure our students are very keenly aware of the sacrifice made on their part. \u00a0We always intentionally connect this with the ultimate sacrifice when Jesus died on the cross on our behalf and rose from the dead to defeat hell, death, and the grave. \u00a0Emma\u2019s K4 class had the awesome privilege of singing My Country Tis of Thee to help open our program. \u00a0They did a wonderful job and it was such a blessing to our veterans!<\/p>\n

We were so blessed to have our families and so many sweet friends at Emma\u2019s birthday party. \u00a0She had her party at SkyZone this year and it totally fit with her adventurer personality! \u00a0She was jumping, flipping, and cartwheeling the entire time!<\/p>\n

Emma\u2019s birthday is right before Thanksgiving and we were so glad to have the whole week off of school! \u00a0The Strange 3 headed out right after school let out on Friday afternoon and drove through rain, dark, and crazy traffic to arrive in Memphis somewhere around midnight. \u00a0My sweet sister and her husband waited up for us and helped us get unloaded really quickly. \u00a0We spent that Saturday morning as a family at the memorial service for my uncle that passed away. \u00a0He and I were very close\u2026he was my 8th grade history teacher and just a blast to be around. \u00a0He was a very interesting man having served in Vietnam and he was a huge Cubs fan! \u00a0It was great to see our family and so many friends gather to celebrate Uncle John\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

We had a wonderful time visiting in Memphis for 5 days and then we came home and hosted Clint\u2019s family and one of our best friends for Thanksgiving. \u00a0All in all, it was a very relaxing week\u2026definitely a great opportunity to reflect on all we have to be thankful for! \u00a0This year Emma helped me a ton with preparing the Thanksgiving dinner. \u00a0I love how much she is growing up and how much she always wants to help. She is already telling me her ideas for Thanksgiving next year!<\/p>\n

November was a really fun month as we saw our sweet girl turn 5. \u00a0In the blink of an eye, she has grown up a ton. \u00a0We treasure every moment with her!<\/p>\n

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November was a blast at our house! \u00a0We celebrated\u00a0Emma\u2019s 5th Birthday, went to\u00a0Homecoming at Georgia Tech, and celebrated Thanksgiving. \u00a0And do we have a lot to be Thankful for! Our school does a really awesome Veteran\u2019s Day service each year to honor the veterans in our community and to make sure our students are very […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,32,18,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emma","category-family","category-marriage","category-north-cobb-christian","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871","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=7871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}