{"id":1325,"date":"2011-02-11T15:09:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T23:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisnest.com\/?page_id=1325"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T21:00:08","slug":"meet-the-sparrows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thisnest.com\/?page_id=1325","title":{"rendered":"Bird &#038; Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thisnest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/152552011_10219098399115248_2417807372863305950_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thisnest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/152552011_10219098399115248_2417807372863305950_n-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisnest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/152552011_10219098399115248_2417807372863305950_n-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thisnest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/152552011_10219098399115248_2417807372863305950_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisnest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/152552011_10219098399115248_2417807372863305950_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thisnest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/152552011_10219098399115248_2417807372863305950_n-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thisnest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/152552011_10219098399115248_2417807372863305950_n.jpg 1344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped has-background wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\" style=\"background-color:#7092b2\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1992 &#8211; Current.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bird. He\/Him\/His. Husband. Father. Papa. Truck Driver. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blue. She\/Her\/Hers. Wife. Mama. Nonna. RN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is hers. She is his. They are theirs. Thick and thin. Better or worse. Forever and then some. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The past, present, and future of This Nest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gratefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Glimpses of our beautifully chaotic life, at <a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ThisNest.com%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2K6ZEKlj22raxH_v0dIj_VyH0oud4NoFdAiOVmxXXNpd42DZjm8dG71jI&amp;h=AT2rmh2JUBINlTPuzuuJ8xh2ezFXxOmY8MdkG86yzgmnxF0eUk9lwpgrnqqhijj8G68FoXTK0LQccVPT81JZLbOjlwDkI2kcwpb4VTK9lO5k2-LSwJtqofU7jAXzJPQVbo3MAEFZ4hiRa3zsgQ&amp;__tn__=-UK-R&amp;c[0]=AT1ehoZn1GIOLmttdyUE3UcwefQ6ifMEoIToGNNZPRGIp5Hbj0y5qVdUd5yYrx8f3nFP5usazgtxaDynACWKzrHgFRpFgGNTVWzn7-VOAQZ9V34ALtsvfvu2MGwTtrYXeTWqCKStNqP617ZZwKsetgrV0WETmDOvsUD2ZhNoqUQHQI28UDxdgdHm9p1SrvukOIADYrvA5mHS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.ThisNest.com.<\/a> Bird &amp; Blue, college sweethearts still navigating all of the lessons and blessings we have continually been gifted for more than three decades. Proud (and sometimes exhausted) parents of five incredibly unique humans. Grateful grandparents of (so far) three precious grand-humans. We helped raise Bird&#8217;s seven siblings for nearly two decades. And we are pseudo-parents to so many other amazing humans who didn&#8217;t grow in my womb, but most definitely grew on our hearts. Along the way we have fallen numerous times but gotten back up one more than that, while balancing life and marriage and family and careers. It hasn&#8217;t always been easy&#8230;but it has always been worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1992 &#8211; Current. Bird. He\/Him\/His. Husband. Father. Papa. Truck Driver. Blue. She\/Her\/Hers. Wife. Mama. Nonna. RN. He is hers. She is his. They are theirs. Thick and thin. Better or worse. Forever and then some. The past, present, and future &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thisnest.com\/?page_id=1325\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3291,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1325","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisnest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisnest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/thisnest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"https:\/\/thisnest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1325\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisnest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisnest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}