{"id":101,"date":"2012-10-30T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myheart4home.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2014-11-30T18:27:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T02:27:33","slug":"celebrating-my-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/celebrating-my-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating my son\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">We celebrated my oldest son&#8217;s 30th birthday just over a week ago. I don&#8217;t mind telling you that it was more traumatic than celebrating my own birthdays! Can I really have a child that is that old? Yep!<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">To celebrate this special day, I decided to make a Memory Quilt. Now, mind you, I had never made a quilt before so this was a big venture. I was really pleased with the results and so was Ryan. I am posting on the \u201cSharing the Past\u201d tab because it was a picture quilt.<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_901\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-901\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0011-800x648.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"901\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/celebrating-my-son\/dsc_0011-800x648\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0011-800x648.jpg?fit=800%2C648&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,648\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D3100&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1350824596&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;3200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ryan&amp;#8217;s Picture Quilt\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Thirty Years of Memories&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0011-800x648.jpg?fit=300%2C243&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0011-800x648.jpg?fit=600%2C486&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-901\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0011-800x648-300x243.jpg?resize=450%2C365&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Thirty Years of Memories\" width=\"450\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0011-800x648.jpg?resize=300%2C243&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0011-800x648.jpg?resize=150%2C121&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0011-800x648.jpg?resize=800%2C648&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-901\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thirty Years of Memories<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">I used paper-backed cotton sheets that can be printed with a inkjet printer to print 46 pictures that made up 36 blocks. The first block was the picture from the hospital when he was one day old and the last block was Ryan and his sweet daughter, Nora, on his first Father\u2019s Day.\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">I am already planning the quilts that will be expected in three years for the twins\u2019 30th birthdays!<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">Counting my blessings and loving that God gifted my with a Heart 4 Home!!<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Signature1-e1416283765459.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"572\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/home\/signature-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Signature1-e1416283765459.jpg?fit=150%2C67&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"150,67\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Signature\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Signature1-e1416283765459.jpg?fit=150%2C67&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.myheart4home.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Signature1-e1416283765459.jpg?fit=150%2C67&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-572\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/myheart4home.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Signature1-e1416283765459.jpg?resize=150%2C67&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Signature\" width=\"150\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We celebrated my oldest son&rsquo;s 30th birthday just over a week ago. 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