{"id":875,"date":"2011-03-07T14:55:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T18:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=875"},"modified":"2011-03-09T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T16:13:10","slug":"simeons-first-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"Simeon&#8217;s FIRST Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_877\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/03\/Party-participants.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-877\" class=\"size-full wp-image-877\" title=\"Party participants\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/03\/Party-participants.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here are all the people that attended Simeon&#39;s party<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We had the opportunity to celebrate Simeon&#8217;s FIRST birthdayon Saturday\u00a0with friends from Ecuador.\u00a0 At exactly 8:34 AM when he was born, Joel, Cheryll and I sang Happy Birthday and Cheryll prayed for him.\u00a0 It was very special for us.\u00a0 \u00a0It was a great time with quite a lot of highlights.\u00a0 Simeon actually took his first steps on Saturday too!\u00a0 It was a great day of celebrating and thinking back over the last year.\u00a0 God has truly blessed us with a wonderful son and we are so thankful for him!\u00a0 Here are a few pictures of the day.\u00a0 There are also a couple of videos below that you might like to see too!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_883\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/03\/Martita-and-SImeon1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-883\" class=\"size-full wp-image-883\" title=\"Martita and SImeon\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/03\/Martita-and-SImeon1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martita (Simeon&#39;s babysitter) and Simeon<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_878\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/03\/The-decorations.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-878\" class=\"size-full wp-image-878\" title=\"The decorations\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/03\/The-decorations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The decorations for the party<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_879\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/03\/Simeons-cupcake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-879\" class=\"size-full wp-image-879\" title=\"Simeon's cupcake\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/03\/Simeons-cupcake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simeon&#39;s birthday cupcake<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_880\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/03\/Simeon-eating-his-cupcake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-880\" class=\"size-full wp-image-880\" title=\"Simeon eating his cupcake\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/03\/Simeon-eating-his-cupcake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simeon eating his cupcake<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_882\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/03\/Simeon-opening-presents.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-882\" class=\"size-full wp-image-882\" title=\"Simeon opening presents\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2011\/03\/Simeon-opening-presents.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simeon and mommy opening presents<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/delp?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=875&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the opportunity to celebrate Simeon&#8217;s FIRST birthdayon Saturday\u00a0with friends from Ecuador.\u00a0 At exactly 8:34 AM when he was born, Joel, Cheryll and I sang Happy Birthday and Cheryll prayed for him.\u00a0 It was very special for us.\u00a0 \u00a0It was a great time with quite a lot of highlights.\u00a0 Simeon actually took his first &hellip; 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