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<\/a><\/p>\nMel, Mary Clare and I enjoyed a not-so-quiet* dinner out tonight and are now tucked into pj’s with full bellies watching the fire in the fireplace waiting on the ball to drop.\u00a0 My kind of New Year’s Celebration.\u00a0 We passed up a couple of invitations to ring in twenty-ten with friends, but opted for a quiet, lazy evening with family. McCanless would have been a part of our small celebration, but being my little social one, decided to go with the Forts to her idea of heaven on earth, The Great Wolf Lodge<\/a> in Concord, NC.\u00a0 (An overnight lodge\/indoor water park)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 *Mary Clare has decided that singing at the top of her lungs any and everywhere is her thing.<\/p>\n \n 2009 proved to be more exciting, crazier and full of more laughs than any year so far for us.\u00a0 We are loving our life and can’t wait to see what 2010 holds!<\/p>\n Mel, Mary Clare and I enjoyed a not-so-quiet* dinner out tonight and are now tucked into pj’s with full bellies watching the fire in the fireplace waiting on the ball to drop.\u00a0 My kind of New Year’s Celebration.\u00a0 We passed up a couple of invitations to ring in twenty-ten with friends, but opted for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Happy New Year, Friends!<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"