{"id":1141,"date":"2009-05-09T22:16:44","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T05:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2009-05-09T22:16:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T05:16:44","slug":"time-for-celebrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Time for celebrating!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Today was beautiful in many ways&#8230;.we celebrated our son&#8217;s First Communion.\u00a0 Our big guy has been preparing for this\u00a0special day for quite some time and he woke up a little nervous but mainly very excited.\u00a0 There was a large group of First Communicants and it was so sweet to see all of the girls dressed in white with their veils, and the boys wearing their suit and ties.<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1142\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1142\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1142\" title=\"gabriels-first-communion-010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/gabriels-first-communion-010.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriel with Father Scalia\" width=\"410\" height=\"680\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriel with Father Scalia<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1143\" style=\"width: 420px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1143\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1143\" title=\"gabriels-first-communion3-019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/gabriels-first-communion3-019.jpg\" alt=\"Now a picture with PopPop\" width=\"410\" height=\"746\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now a picture with PopPop<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1145\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1145\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1145\" title=\"gabriels-first-communion2-0191\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/gabriels-first-communion2-0191.jpg\" alt=\"The whole family\" width=\"405\" height=\"385\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The whole family<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You can see in this family photo that Gabriel is proudly carrying his rosary.\u00a0 I was so happy to finish this a few weeks ago in time for his formal portrait.\u00a0 This rosary was made with love and included several components\u00a0that I chose specifically for him&#8230; his name and year is engraved on the back of the crucifix, the amethyst Swarovski crystals were used for his favorite color purple, and I chose a St. Gabriel center piece for the archangel that he is named after.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1146 aligncenter\" title=\"gabriels-first-communion4-028\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/gabriels-first-communion4-028.jpg\" alt=\"gabriels-first-communion4-028\" width=\"433\" height=\"577\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>And for all of you Mother&#8217;s out there&#8230;.here&#8217;s to YOU!\u00a0 I hope you enjoy <em>your<\/em> day!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1147 aligncenter\" title=\"happy-mothers-day\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/happy-mothers-day.jpg\" alt=\"happy-mothers-day\" width=\"400\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was beautiful in many ways&#8230;.we celebrated our son&#8217;s First Communion.\u00a0 Our big guy has been preparing for this\u00a0special day for quite some time and he woke up a little nervous but mainly very excited.\u00a0 There was a large group of First Communicants and it was so sweet to see all of the girls dressed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}