{"id":1722,"date":"2009-08-18T01:18:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T05:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=1722"},"modified":"2009-08-18T01:18:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T05:18:33","slug":"boys-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=1722","title":{"rendered":"Boys of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1723\" title=\"sunset-on-the-beach_2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_2.jpg\" alt=\"sunset-on-the-beach_2\" width=\"460\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_2.jpg 460w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_2-300x274.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_2-450x411.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greetings from the beach {again}.\u00a0 Please tell me you&#8217;re not tired of stopping by here to find <em>more<\/em> beach pictures!\u00a0 You know I can&#8217;t help myself&#8230;this is my favorite season!\u00a0 I&#8217;m savoring it for as long as I can.\u00a0 And believe it or not, I&#8217;m actually restraining myself from posting even more pictures! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Whew, what a day.\u00a0 I&#8217;m here with just the kids, and as luck would have it my littlest guy had a bit of an accident this morning.\u00a0 He was busy crawling and thump! hit his head on the metal bed rail &#8211; right next to his eye.\u00a0 I wasn&#8217;t sure if it warranted a trip to the doctors so I decided to be cautious and went with all 4 kids to the local urgent care center.\u00a0\u00a0 Let me tell you it was a painfully looooong wait.\u00a0 But the good news is he&#8217;s okay and no stitches were needed.<\/p>\n<p>We did something a little different and went back to the beach after dinner.\u00a0 Oh it was so PERFECT then.\u00a0 It was cool, the crowds were gone, and we had so much sand to ourselves.\u00a0 What a wonderful place to watch the sun go down.\u00a0 The boys had fun running in and out of the waves (and tumbling in them of course) that they didn&#8217;t want to go home.\u00a0 The baby fell asleep as I carried him on our walk home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1724\" title=\"sunset-on-the-beach_4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_4.jpg\" alt=\"sunset-on-the-beach_4\" width=\"460\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_4.jpg 460w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_4-300x204.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_4-450x307.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1725\" title=\"sunset-on-the-beach_5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_5.jpg\" alt=\"sunset-on-the-beach_5\" width=\"460\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_5.jpg 460w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_5-300x228.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_5-450x343.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1726\" title=\"sunset-on-the-beach\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach.jpg\" alt=\"sunset-on-the-beach\" width=\"460\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach.jpg 460w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach-300x228.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach-450x343.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1731\" title=\"sunset-on-the-beach_3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_3.jpg\" alt=\"sunset-on-the-beach_3\" width=\"475\" height=\"601\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_3.jpg 475w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_3-237x300.jpg 237w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/sunset-on-the-beach_3-355x450.jpg 355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now speaking of the boys&#8230;.look at this beautiful custom stamped pendant made just for me by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=6551334\">sTuck in the Coop<\/a>!\u00a0 I recently won Heather&#8217;s &#8220;Christmas in July&#8221; give away for one of her new &#8220;clam shell&#8221; designs.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t believe my great luck&#8230;you know I just love personalized stamped pieces!\u00a0 Her design is <em>so<\/em> clever &#8211; two domed sterling discs forming a clam shell with a name inside.\u00a0 If you stop by her shop, check out her profile&#8230;I just love how she came up with her shop name.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1727\" title=\"clamshell-pendant\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/clamshell-pendant.jpg\" alt=\"clamshell-pendant\" width=\"460\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/clamshell-pendant.jpg 460w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/clamshell-pendant-300x270.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/clamshell-pendant-450x405.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1728\" title=\"clamshell-pendant_2t\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/clamshell-pendant_2t.jpg\" alt=\"clamshell-pendant_2t\" width=\"460\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/clamshell-pendant_2t.jpg 460w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/clamshell-pendant_2t-300x265.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/clamshell-pendant_2t-450x398.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have a great week!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1732\" title=\"siggie6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/siggie6.png\" alt=\"siggie6\" width=\"138\" height=\"75\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from the beach {again}.\u00a0 Please tell me you&#8217;re not tired of stopping by here to find more beach pictures!\u00a0 You know I can&#8217;t help myself&#8230;this is my favorite season!\u00a0 I&#8217;m savoring it for as long as I can.\u00a0 And believe it or not, I&#8217;m actually restraining myself from posting even more pictures! \ud83d\ude09 Whew, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etsy-finds","category-give-away","category-life-and-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722","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=1722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}