{"id":12290,"date":"2016-07-13T05:06:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T11:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/?p=12290"},"modified":"2016-07-13T00:07:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T06:07:41","slug":"the-weber-carnival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/2016\/07\/the-weber-carnival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"The Weber Carnival 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

We gathered at the family cabin for the first time since the death of my grandparents, who were so good at making these gatherings special. In loving memory (and instead of a funeral) we held a parade and carnival for my grandmother. My mom carried Grandma’s\u00a0patriotic umbrella and we all decorated our bicycles, hats, and scooters… and the handcart.\"1-DSC_1671\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_1662\"<\/a>\"1-DSC_1673\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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I wore my grandmother’s red boots.<\/p>\n

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For carnival games, we had a fishing pond, doughnut eating contest, darts, ball games, and face painting.\"1-DSC_1716\"<\/a>\"1-DSC_1705\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_1710\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_1712\"<\/a>\"1-DSC_1718\"<\/a> The kids made little boats to race in rain gutters.\"1-DSC_1725\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_1726\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_1728\"<\/a><\/p>\n

My aunt showed up wearing the old fox stole and the dogs went crazy over it.\"1-DSC_1734\"<\/a>My aunt and uncle brought their own brand of silly to the party, which is always expected at a\u00a0gathering at the Weber.
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We revisited\u00a0the tradition of a sawdust candy hunt.
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Next came the rubber ducky races down the river.\"1-DSC_1753\"<\/a> \"1-DSC_1756\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The winners were all adults.
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Once the duckies came out of the river, we watched the kids tube down the river for hours.<\/p>\n

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Oh, that Paige and her winning ways.<\/p>\n

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Mark and Timothy had a good time in the river. Daniel was at youth conference this day.\"1-DSC_1801\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"1-DSC_1810\"<\/a>One theme of the gathering was gratitude, for a legacy of family traditions, a beautiful cabin, and one another. This day would have made my grandmother and grandfather smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We gathered at the family cabin for the first time since the death of my grandparents, who were so good at making these gatherings special. In loving memory (and instead of a funeral) we held a parade and carnival for my grandmother. My mom carried Grandma’s\u00a0patriotic umbrella and we all decorated our bicycles, hats, and … Continue reading The Weber Carnival 2016<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventurous-kids","category-extended-family","category-family-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12332,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12290\/revisions\/12332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.angelaross.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}