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I’ve been wanting to write up this blog since Sunday,
\nbut it has been a super busy week! We had an awesome Mother’s Day weekend
\nstarting out Sunday morning when Analise and I worked on this picture frame
\nfor Kristine during Sunday School at our church. Then after church
\nwe met my parents, my brother, and my grandmother at CiCi’s pizza for
\na nice Mother’s Day no-cooking \/ no-cleanup dinner. We had a nice relaxing
\nmeal and lots of pizza!<\/p>\n
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\nThen while Kristine and Analise were napping, I went for a short bike ride
\naround Hoover inspired to find the steepest hills in our city. Along the
\nway I stopped by my parents house to say hi again to mom on mother’s day.
\nI also road on Deodara Drive, named for this Deodara pine tree found next
\nto Star Lake. Finally, I made it up the steepest hill in Hoover near our
\nhouse (which would be just behind the trees on the left on the near ridge).<\/p>\n
\nLater in the evening on Sunday, we went to the snow-cone place in Pelham
\nto satisfy Kristine’s late pregnancy craving before returning home to watch
\nthe final episode of West Wing. All in all, I think Kristine had a wonderful
\nSunday for mother’s day.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Both Friday and Monday were fun too. First, on Monday, my I’ve been wanting to write up this blog since Sunday, but it has been a super busy week! We had an awesome Mother’s Day weekend starting out Sunday morning when Analise and I worked on this picture frame for Kristine during Sunday School at our church. Then after church we met my parents, my brother, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkzLf-37","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toonesalive.com\/blog\/family\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"\/family\/heytoes.jpg\")
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\ndepartment at Samford threw us a baby shower and gave us this cake to welcome
\nour baby boy when he comes. We had a great time eating, chatting, hanging out
\nand opening presents. Analise loved playing with Steve’s kids so we could relax
\nand not have to worry about taking care of her. We also had a nice relaxing
\nFriday evening to kick things off. Analise goes crazy over toes, and we’ve got
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