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Ben turned 9 last Friday, but we had weekend conflicts so we didn’t have his official party until Monday because that was when we could get the most amount of family together. He wanted to go bowling, have a white elephant exchange, and have an ice cream cake. Me managed to get all three in! Happy 9 years Benjamin!
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Ben turned 9 last Friday, but we had weekend conflicts so we didn’t have his official party until Monday because that was when we could get the most amount of family together. He wanted to go bowling, have a white elephant exchange, and have an ice cream cake. Me managed to get all three in!…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[201],"tags":[3694,81,2440,95,3695,523,1891],"class_list":["post-11808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benjamin-kids","tag-9-yo","tag-benjamin","tag-bowling","tag-family-2","tag-ice-cream-cake","tag-party","tag-white-elephant","wpcat-201-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p504YJ-34s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7496,"url":"https:\/\/www.themoehrings.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/party-with-cake","url_meta":{"origin":11808,"position":0},"title":"Party with Cake","author":"Becca","date":"September 23, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Me: Ben, what do you want to do for your birthday? 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