{"id":51791,"date":"2017-01-16T15:04:37","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T19:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/?p=51791"},"modified":"2017-01-16T15:12:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T19:12:37","slug":"pictures-from-our-winter-onederland-and-jason-angelini-photography-christmas-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/16\/pictures-from-our-winter-onederland-and-jason-angelini-photography-christmas-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures from Our Winter ONEderland and Jason Angelini Photography Christmas Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a fun, festive, and hectic holiday season this year! \u00a0Not only did we have all of the usual preparations and celebrations of this time of year, but we also had my sister’s rehearsal and wedding! \u00a0With family in town for that, we hosted a big New Year’s Eve party too! \u00a0With so much to celebrate, this year we combined our annual Jason Angelini Photography Christmas party<\/a> with our son’s first birthday party. \u00a0Everyone was invited to join us for our son’s Winter ONEderland<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Our son is an incredible baby. \u00a0He’s probably the most easy-going baby we’ve had! \u00a0Or else we’ve really lowered our expectations by this point \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0He was born just before Christmas and I had so much fun putting together the details and decor for a winter themed party. \u00a0We had yummy treats, games, crafts, and all of the things we traditionally have at our Christmas party every year, including Santa and his face painting, balloon twisting elf! \u00a0But a winter ONEderland wouldn’t be the same without SNOW! \u00a0We had a pool filled with snow and snow falling from the sky! \u00a0The kids had a blast! \u00a0They slipped and slid in the snow and had a snow ball fight. \u00a0Our kids were talking about the snow (and asking for more!) for weeks!<\/p>\n

Thank you to everyone who came over and helped us celebrate one year with our sweet baby boy. \u00a0We love him dearly and thank God for blessing our family\u00a0with him!<\/p>\n

Every month we took a picture of our son in the exact same outfit to show him growing into it, and then out of it, during his first year. \u00a0Those pictures were at the front table, along with the book “Snow” which we asked guests to sign with a birthday message or memory.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Because our son was born the weekend of the opening of the new Star Wars, his friend during his monthly pictures was Chewbacca. \u00a0These pictures of him in the same chair with Chewy every month hung in the hallway.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Scattered on the food counter were snowflake frames with pictures of our baby laying in his crib each month of his first year.<\/em><\/p>\n

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“In the meadow we can build a snowman…” \u00a0We tried to have a snowman or snow theme to the food. \u00a0There was a snowman making station with marshmallows, pretzel sticks, and carrots. \u00a0We had white chocolate covered pretzels to look like snowy branches. \u00a0The candy buffet had white and blue candy. \u00a0And every year the hot chocolate bar is a big hit! \u00a0Our kids would eat a cup filled just with whipped cream if they thought they could get away with it.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The activity table had a craft kit to make a beaded wreath ornament, stickers to create Santa’s Workshop, holiday themed tattoos, crayons and coloring books, puzzles, and a letter to Santa to fill out and bring to him. \u00a0A sign on the table let kids know there was more fun outside as well!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Eggz is one seriously talented elf! \u00a0She does the balloon twisting and face painting every year and the kids cannot get enough!<\/em><\/p>\n

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SANTA!!!!! \u00a0You can feel the excitement when Santa arrives! \u00a0The kids rush to the door to greet him!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Florida snow. \u00a0Maybe not as great as the real stuff, but still lots of fun to play in! \u00a0Now if only we had enough to build a snowboarding hill…<\/em><\/p>\n

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The birthday boy really didn’t want much to do with the snow.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Time for cake! \u00a0Considering his unenthusiastic reaction to the cake at his Smash the Cake<\/a> session, I wasn’t expecting him to be overly excited for this cake. \u00a0He tolerated sitting near it, but didn’t want to eat any.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It was an amazing day and bittersweet thinking back on how fast our baby’s first year went by! \u00a0Though he’s walking, saying some words, and teaching us more about his personality, thankfully he is still snuggly and sweet so I still get cuddles. \u00a0I hope he doesn’t grow out of that too soon! \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

And to end this party post, pictures with Santa are always a really special part of our annual Christmas parties! \u00a0Here are some of the Santa pictures from this year:<\/em><\/p>\n

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We had a fun, festive, and hectic holiday season this year! \u00a0Not only did we have all of the usual preparations and celebrations of this time of year, but we also had my sister’s rehearsal and wedding! \u00a0With family in town for that, we hosted a big New Year’s Eve party too! \u00a0With so much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,42],"tags":[856,443,409],"class_list":["post-51791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sessions","category-our-family","tag-annual-christmas-party","tag-holiday","tag-santa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51791"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52017,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51791\/revisions\/52017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}