{"id":2716,"date":"2019-02-18T18:15:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T08:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2019-02-18T18:17:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T08:17:15","slug":"christmas-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/?p=2716","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to think cold thoughts to cool off during these hot summer days and that reminded me to write about our Christmas-time trip back to the US. It&#8217;s full of warm fuzzy memories though so it didn&#8217;t help with the heat.<\/p>\n<p>Our first stop was Austin, TX to see the Handel family. We enjoyed catching up with everyone over a rousing game of Top Golf and an afternoon at the Austin Zoo among other activities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2729\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2729\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TX-Handel-Family-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2729 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TX-Handel-Family-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick, Natasha and Sara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2730\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TX-Handel-Family-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2730\" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TX-Handel-Family-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jon, Mary and Gene<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2731\" style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TX-Handel-Family-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2731 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/TX-Handel-Family-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"657\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nick and Jon feeding a hungry goat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our second stop was the DMV where we did all sorts of fun things with all sorts of fun people. Photo evidence of some of the fun follows below, but sadly not all the fun was captured. It was so great to catch up with so many people!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2722\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2722\" style=\"width: 491px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Guiness2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2722\" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Guiness2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2722\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guinness Brewery &#8211; Lyon, Alison, Sara, Jon, Kris, Amanda, Michelle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2717\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2717\" style=\"width: 491px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Adam-and-Cubello-Kids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Adam-and-Cubello-Kids.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2717\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam, Tyler, Lizzy, and Zach &#8211; taking a &#8220;nice&#8221; picture at my request \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2727\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2727\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sara-and-Becky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sara-and-Becky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2727\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hanging out with Becky at the Wharf<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2726\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Mike-and-Jon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Mike-and-Jon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike and Jon enjoying lunch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2724\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2724\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Hockey-Night-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2724\" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Hockey-Night-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2724\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hockey night &#8211; Adam, Sara, Mom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2723\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2723\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Hockey-Night-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2723\" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Hockey-Night-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2723\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hockey night &#8211; Lyon, Jon, Alison and Adam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2718\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2718\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Braly-and-Jon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2718\" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Braly-and-Jon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Party night in Irvington part 1000 NYE Chris and Jon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2728\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sara-and-Holly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sara-and-Holly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Party night in Irvington part 1000 NYE Sara and Holly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2732\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Wiffle-Ball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2732\" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Wiffle-Ball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wiffle ball! &#8211; Adam, Lyon and Jon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2725\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jon-and-Adam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Jon-and-Adam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pre-shoot antics &#8211; Adam and Jon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2721\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2721\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Family-Photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Family-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family photo shoot &#8211; Lyon, Adam, Jon, Alison, Mom, Sara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Luckily, it didn&#8217;t take quite as many takes to get this photo as it did last year.<\/p>\n<p>Our last stop was California where we got to see Jon&#8217;s Mom and his brother Jeff as well as partake of all Jon&#8217;s favorite childhood foods &#8211; Round Table Pizza and In n Out Burger and Noah&#8217;s Bagels.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2719\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2719\" style=\"width: 444px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CA-Handel-Family.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CA-Handel-Family.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeff, Jon, Kathy and Sara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>More to come soon (maybe) on our latest shenanigans in Australia. Until then, stop being such a cotton headed ninny-muggins \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Elf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2720 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Elf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"388\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was trying to think cold thoughts to cool off during these hot summer days and that reminded me to write about our Christmas-time trip back to the US. It&#8217;s full of warm fuzzy memories though so it didn&#8217;t help with the heat. Our first stop was Austin, TX to see the Handel family. We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/?p=2716\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas Memories<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handelblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}