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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This was a big weekend.<\/p>\n
My grandmother is selling the lake property that I have grown up on.\u00a0 Land is too valuable, and property taxes are astronomical.\u00a0 The only logical solution is to sell, as much as it might kill me and my family.\u00a0 My immediate family was at the lake to enjoy it for (probably) the last time.\u00a0 The lake is where Randy proposed, and the perfect setting to tell my family the news we have all been praying for the last 18 months.\u00a0 Originally, Diana Beth had stubbornly decided not to come to the lake, so I had to tell her Friday before we left.\u00a0 Needless to say there were tears of joy involved, and no way was she going to miss me telling the rest of the family.\u00a0 So she decided to make the trip.<\/p>\n
Saturday morning we were all eating breakfast by the water.\u00a0 I looked at Randy and he gave me the go-ahead, now was the perfect time.\u00a0 (I also looked at Diana who started the video camera rolling!)\u00a0 I told mom, dad and Adrianne the good news and it was tears of joy all around.\u00a0 The first words out of my mom’s mouth were, “I can’t believe you didn’t tell me you little s*!t!!”<\/p>\n
All in all it was a wonderful, heartbreaking weekend.\u00a0 For those of you that have never been to the lake with us let me describe it to you.\u00a0 There isn’t a house, just a boat house and 140 feet of perfect waterfront property.\u00a0 My sisters and I have spent most weekends of our lives at the lake.\u00a0 We have all grown up there and intended to raise our families up there too.\u00a0 It is bittersweet that we are losing the property the summer before Randy and I will have a little one to share it with.\u00a0 Hopefully we can purchase a different lake property and start a new set of traditions next year.<\/p>\n
The picture below is the sunset at the lake Friday night.\u00a0 There aren’t many places on earth that are more beautiful than this.<\/p>\n
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This was a big weekend. My grandmother is selling the lake property that I have grown up on.\u00a0 Land is too valuable, and property taxes are astronomical.\u00a0 The only logical solution is to sell, as much as it might kill me and my family.\u00a0 My immediate family was at the lake to enjoy it for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-julie","category-reed","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}