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<\/a><\/p>\nThe next morning was full of errand running- cake pickup, some last minute details, ice, balloons. Melissa, Vanessa and I were in charge of getting balloons- 25 of them! I was terrified I’d accidentally let go of them, so that was entrusted to Melissa and Vanessa. Also, it was POURING out! We got everything ready, and it all looked great! Happy birthday, Nate. You’re two and I can’t imagine my life without you. You bring me so much happiness and make me laugh so much. I love coming to see you every month for our monthly visits and play time and snuggles. Some say I’m biased, but I really do think I have the best nephew on the planet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On April 20th (yes, Easter!) my nephew Nate turned 2! I can’t even believe it. It feels like yesterday Dan and I came home from Tokyo Disneyland to the news that he was born WEEKS early. We were beyond shocked, but so happy! I missed his first birthday since I was still living in Japan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85,466,55,177,168,38],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-birthday","tag-cars","tag-family","tag-nate","tag-party","tag-portland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/penniestoyennies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nNate was particularly fond of his photo timeline \ud83d\ude09
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\nGuests arrived and it was time for toys!
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\nOh, he LOVED these cars. Bringing them over for me to see. Mom and Dad in the back \ud83d\ude42
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\nSome of his prezzies were pretty big…
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\nAnd unwrapping took quite a bit of time…
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\nAfter presents, birthday boy had cake! I don’t know what he loved more- frosting, or the toy Lightning McQueen on top!
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\nLauren and Nate reflect on the past two years <3\n<\/a>
\nToasting my niece Vanessa on a job well done with party planning!
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\nEven Dan’s mom came!
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\nOh yes, that day Nate ruled the house
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\nAnd so he boogied and ate and partied and played til he couldn’t stand anymore!
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