{"id":9875,"date":"2026-01-04T14:03:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T13:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/?p=9875"},"modified":"2026-01-04T20:27:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T19:27:50","slug":"jingle-jingle-part-the-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/01\/04\/jingle-jingle-part-the-second\/","title":{"rendered":"JINGLE JINGLE, PART THE SECOND*"},"content":{"rendered":"

As usual, I was living in the moment and didn’t take nearly enough photos of our time in the States, but I was apparently better than the rest of my family. Martin says he only took 2 photos the entire time, haha. Here’s the photo dump from our holidays!<\/p>\n

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\nEssie, Danely, and Karin decorating cookies<\/p>\n

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\nKarin and Martin decorating cookies<\/p>\n

\"Karin
\nKarin outdoes herself with a cookie too pretty to eat!<\/p>\n

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\nAnders, Essie, Karin, Grandma Linda, and Martin – ready to open presents<\/p>\n

\"Danely
\nDanely is also ready to open presents<\/p>\n

\"Bryce\"
\nThe elusive Mr Bryce<\/p>\n

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\nMe and my mom (who is not actually taller than me)<\/p>\n

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\nEssie opening her present from Sarah’s family<\/p>\n

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\nSarah and mom opening the photobooks I made<\/p>\n

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\nKarin with the Xmas dogs: Rocco and Maia<\/p>\n

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\nFancy Xmas dogs!<\/p>\n

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\nGrandma Linda and Martin walking Little Sugar Creek Greenway in the nearly 80F weather<\/p>\n

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\nMartin with me and Grandma Linda, out walking in the sunshine<\/p>\n

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\nContrary to popular belief, Maia did not deign to eat Martin or anyone else<\/p>\n

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\nSarah took the girls horseback riding<\/p>\n

Some of the things we did besides Christmas and New Years: visited Waxhaw, Carolina Place mall and Southern Lion, Sleepy Poet antique mall, Charlotte Premium Outlets. Had dinner twice at Yama, and once at Copper Premium Pub, lunch at Red Sake and Emmets Table, breakfast at Coney Island. Various people had Arby’s, Chick-Fil-A, Popeyes, Chipotle, Wasabi as well. Horseback riding, ice skating, running\/walking, walking at Little Sugar Creek Greenway and seeing James K. Polk’s childhood home. Tom and Anders went to the Nascar Museum. Playing 20 Questions, Hygge, IncoHEARant, Hues & Cues, Travel Yahtzee (both Anders and I rolled a yahtzee on our first turns!). Putting together Martin’s mushroom jigsaw puzzle. Watching Klaus <\/em>at home (the kids all went to see Avatar 3<\/em> in the theater). And eating amazing food at home including rib roast, turkey, spaghetti bolognese, Tom’s pizzas, artichoke dip, and more. <\/p>\n

A fun vacation in most every way!<\/p>\n

*Part the first was in December 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As usual, I was living in the moment and didn’t take nearly enough photos of our time in the States, but I was apparently better than the rest of my family. Martin says he only took 2 photos the entire time, haha. Here’s the photo dump from our holidays! Essie, Danely, and Karin decorating cookies Karin and Martin decorating cookies Karin outdoes herself with a cookie too pretty to eat! Anders, Essie, Karin, Grandma Linda, and Martin – ready to open presents Danely is also ready to open presents The elusive Mr Bryce Me and my mom (who is not...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,14,27,12,10,7],"class_list":["post-9875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-famdamily","tag-goodthings","tag-holidaze","tag-karinbean","tag-martinbean","tag-obiterphotos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9875"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9901,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9875\/revisions\/9901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}