{"id":23501,"date":"2016-12-20T06:33:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T06:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=23501"},"modified":"2016-12-19T07:01:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T07:01:31","slug":"family-get-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/12\/family-get-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Get Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent last weekend at my parents house in Gloucestershire for a Christmas family get together. Well, I say the weekend, but it was actually quite a quick visit. We headed down straight after work and school on\u00a0Friday evening. Once there we had dinner at their house and then sat around chatting before heading off to bed.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning was a relaxed one. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/haircut-100-percent\/\">Morgan had his hair cut<\/a> (in drastic fashion!) by Kia. Anna, Trudi and my Mum went clothes shopping in Yate. Morgan and I also popped into Yate where we caught a Christmas Pikachu.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23502\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3689.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23502\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3689.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Pikachu\" width=\"500\" height=\"888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3689.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3689-113x200.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christmas Pikachu<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We than headed off to Airhop &#8211; The Worlds largest trampoline park where we met up with my Mum and Dad, Jason, Jennie, Megan, Harry, Charlie, Jack, Brad, Trudi, Max, Kia, Shaun and Ryder. All of the children (and me) then spent an hour bouncing on trampolines, doing flips into foam pits, battling on the battle beams, taking on the spinning arms of the Wipeout zone, playing trampoline dodge-ball and slam-dunking basketballs from trampolines!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mPwSGJ28V9A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3i-w7KOg0Ps\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There was then time for a few quick family photos that my Mum wanted before we headed off to Winter Stream Farm for dinner. A nice carvery for Anna and I. Finished off of course with one of their huge puddings!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-23501 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3701.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_3701-200x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Family Photo\" 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both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>We then headed off to another pub to meet everyone again. We had some more photos and then went\u00a0back to my parents for the evening.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23503\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Fsamily-Photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Fsamily-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"Family Photo\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Fsamily-Photo.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Fsamily-Photo-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Fsamily-Photo-720x540.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Family Photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We\u00a0couldn&#8217;t hang around for long on Sunday morning as I had the final Cyclocross race of the year to get to in Caerphilly. We therefore headed off through the mist and murk to a muddy Caerphilly mountain. With the family visit completed, present exchanged and a big meal eaten it does mean that we are one step closer to Christmas. Morgan has finished school for Christmas,\u00a0I&#8217;m off work, but there&#8217;s still lots to do on our list before the big day arrives!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent last weekend at my parents house in Gloucestershire for a Christmas family get together. Well, I say the weekend, but it was actually quite a quick visit. We headed down straight after work and school on\u00a0Friday evening. 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