{"id":15174,"date":"2016-08-14T20:58:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=15174"},"modified":"2016-08-14T21:02:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T02:02:39","slug":"happiness-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=15174","title":{"rendered":"Happiness Is…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happiness is… being able to spend time with your loves.<\/strong> This is a picture of me and Brian with our babies, Saki and Molly, taken last Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Happiness is… bowling a really clean game.<\/strong> Brian, Zach, and I were at the Alley on Monday night for the final night of our Summer Trios bowling league. It wasn’t a regular bowling night. It was awards\/prize night but the Alley was nice enough to let us bowl for free that evening. <\/p>\n

I’ve been bowling really crappy lately. My normal 160 average has actually decreased by almost 10 pins over the last year. I bowled the cleanest game I’ve ever bowled in a long time that night. Too bad it didn’t count. <\/p>\n

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Happiness is… celebrating your 14th wedding anniversary with your amazing husband.<\/strong> We didn’t make any major anniversary celebration plans this year for a couple of reasons. First, we spent a lot of money at ZINCON just a couple of weeks prior. Second, we had committed to several things over the weekend that we couldn’t get out of… But, as luck would have it, Brian and I were both able to take off work on Wednesday, our actual anniversary day, to do some celebrating. <\/p>\n

Our anniversary celebration consisted of a day trip to TopGolf in Overland Park and riding around Country Club Plaza in Kansas City (just a few miles down the street) for some Pok\u00e9mon hunting.<\/p>\n

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Brian has been wanting to go to TopGolf since last November when I told him about our team building event there<\/a>. I’ve wanted to return too but we have been too busy to make a trip up to the Kansas City\/Overland Park area. I’m glad we could finally make it happen last week. <\/p>\n

It wasn’t until Monday when I brought the idea up to him and asked my boss Ginger for permission to take a vacation day on Wednesday. This was pretty spontaneous for a couple of people who plan everything weeks (and sometimes even months) in advance. This is as spontaneous as it gets for us, folks. I feel tremendously grateful and blessed that it all worked out.<\/p>\n

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Here are a few more pictures from our mid-week anniversary day trip.<\/p>\n

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The food at TopGolf is actually pretty good so we had lunch there while we were playing. I knew I hit it out of the park when Brian told me how much fun he had that day. “Thanks for suggesting this. I had a lot of fun. Did you?” he asked me. “Yes,” I replied. “Are you sure?” He asked again. I was like, “Just because I sucked at it doesn’t mean I didn’t have fun. I had a blast!”<\/p>\n

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Happiness is… coming up with great ideas every now and then.<\/strong> The best part for me is seeing Brian’s face and knowing how much fun he had on our little excursion. It has been a thoroughly fulfilling and joyful week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happiness is… being able to spend time with your loves. This is a picture of me and Brian with our babies, Saki and Molly, taken last Sunday. Happiness is… bowling a really clean game. Brian, Zach, and I were at the Alley on Monday night for the final night of our Summer Trios bowling league. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1340,1690],"tags":[116,83,122,2623,2474],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15174"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15188,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15174\/revisions\/15188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}