{"id":2160,"date":"2007-02-27T01:33:22","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T07:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2160"},"modified":"2007-02-27T01:33:22","modified_gmt":"2007-02-27T07:33:22","slug":"great-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/great-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Great weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well I do believe this year’s birthday (28 – geeze) may have been one of the best. I’m really blessed with a great family and great friends.
\nI think what may have made this year’s birthday so great may have simply been spending it with Laurie<\/b> and the fact that I really didn’t expect anything for my birthday yet I got a number of great, thoughtful gifts, especially from unexpected places.
\nFriday night Laurie and I babysat for her brother and sister-in-law in Forney. Jake<\/b> and Brooklyn<\/b> are definitely one of a kind. I taught Jake how to play checkers and he didn’t want to do anything else the rest of the night. Now I need to teach him chess and see if he can beat me 4 games to 1 in that as well.
\nBrooklyn on the other hand went right to bed after dinner at Chick-Fil-A and sharing her ice cream cone with me. That was a fun and very messy experience.
\nSaturday morning Laurie and I had our first wedding shower at our parent’s church<\/A>. I was the only guy in the room until my cousin Delaina<\/b> brought her six-month old son Matthew<\/b> to the party. I made sure to hang out with him for as long as I could. Of course me holding and feeding Matthew at a wedding shower had all those church ladies talking.
\nI’m quite certain that everyone believes Laurie and I will have our first child well before my sister Kara<\/b> and her new husband, Tim<\/b> — which is somewhat understandable considering Kara’s only 22 — but we’re in no rush either. Give us a year at least<\/i>.
\nSaturday evening Laurie and I returned to an old haunt, Schezuan Pavilion for dinner.
\nI spent many birthday’s there in high school and it was great to be back — especially with Laurie. Their Chinese buffet is still one of the best on my list.
\nAfter dinner we went to watch Amazing Grace<\/I> and I loved it.
\nIt really opens your eyes to the true meaning behind the song and the abolitionist movement in the U.K.
\nGranted, I’m a big baby but there were several points where I got teary eyed watching the movie.
\nIt was also great to see a movie with a pretty strong Christian message that didn’t suck.
\nI thought the editing was a little weak at times and it occasionally reminded me of a Hallmark movie feature but otherwise I thought it was a great true story with actors who came across as truly passionate in their craft.
\nI’m a big fan of Albert Finney<\/b> since his role in Big Fish<\/I>. I thought he played the role of John Newton<\/b> with great passion and skill.
\nDefinitely a must see. (read more on the WDL blog<\/A>)
\nSunday of course was another great time at encounter<\/A>, followed by Jose<\/b> helping me install my new Sirius satellite radio and then Laurie joining me for entry Sunday night.
\nAll in all, a full, busy and tiring weekend but well worth it — and no pictures on my part to remember it by. Doh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well I do believe this year’s birthday (28 – geeze) may have been one of the best. I’m really blessed with a great family and great friends. I think what may have made this year’s birthday so great may have simply been spending it with Laurie and the fact that I really didn’t expect anything … Continue reading Great weekend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-mi-familia","category-reflections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-yQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}