{"id":2874,"date":"2015-12-16T19:52:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T22:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandybeachgirl.com\/?p=2874"},"modified":"2015-12-16T20:08:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T23:08:41","slug":"santas-lost-his-mojo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandybeachgirl.com\/?p=2874","title":{"rendered":"Some Christmas FUN!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had reason to revisit some of my vlog videos recently and thought it would be fun for y&#8217;all too!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Emily &amp; Lydia doing their mother daughter skating routine for Fairfax Ice Arena&#8217;s 2013 Holiday Show. Suzanne brought Harlee from Baltimore so the support group was strong. Yes, you can indeed hear me screaming to excess trying to help Harlee wave to the girls in the finale skate around. Such a docile child I am.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lPtJdf8YKxc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And here they are in 2012. Yes, we are going backwards. What fun is conventionality?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tpyWnGXD5fU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And the entire clip of Lydia in the 2011 Holiday Show. Plus Emily. And Martin showing his board breaking skill.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qLoztYkl-a8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had reason to revisit some of my vlog videos recently and thought it would be fun for y&#8217;all too! Here&#8217;s Emily &amp; Lydia doing their mother daughter skating routine for Fairfax Ice Arena&#8217;s 2013 Holiday Show. Suzanne brought Harlee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sandybeachgirl.com\/?p=2874\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26,70],"tags":[427,425,426],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-family","tag-emily-desjardins","tag-fairfax-ice-arena","tag-lydia-desjardins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5CT4u-Km","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7657,"url":"https:\/\/sandybeachgirl.com\/?p=7657","url_meta":{"origin":2874,"position":0},"title":"Hamilton TO Hadestown","author":"sandy jett ball","date":"September 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"May 18, 2019 It is sometime in the early spring of 2018 when daughter Emily calls me up and asks what we might be doing May 18, 2019. 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