{"id":1155,"date":"2012-08-18T16:21:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2012-08-18T16:24:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T13:24:21","slug":"grandparents-and-grandchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/grandparents-and-grandchildren\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandparents and Grandchildren"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t think there is anything in this world better than a visit from Grandma and Grandpa! The last 10 days provided many wonderful experiences for our children and for my parents. Christina’s parents are only about a five-minute walk from our house so that meant plenty of grandparent and grandchildren time for everyone!
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\nMy parents left on the train, Thursday and before we saw them off we decided to get a few photos of the family together to document the time.
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I am so grateful to have parents and in-laws who are an examples of godliness. I can’t think of better people to spend my time with that these four people right here!<\/p>\n

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Of course we had to get a picture of the ourselves too! It was about time to update our facebook page.<\/p>\n

My parents took the train to see my sister in the city of Melotopl, where they are doing a camp for young people. Tomorrow they will travel to Kiev and next week it will fly it back to the USA. We will miss them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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