{"id":737,"date":"2011-07-20T01:10:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T00:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=737"},"modified":"2011-10-01T01:41:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T00:41:42","slug":"grandkids-are-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2011\/07\/20\/grandkids-are-the-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandkids are the BEST!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just skyped with\u00a0our daughter-in-law, Anna, and our two grandchildren in Spokane, WA.\u00a0 Skype is an amazing thing, to be able to talk and see and laugh with people a bazillion miles away!\u00a0 Here are recent pix of our four grands, a cyberspace Grandma&#8217;s brag book!<\/p>\n<p>Maddie &amp; Maia in Indiana:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Maddie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-738 aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Maddie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Maddie.jpg 336w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Maddie-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Maia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-739 aligncenter\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Maia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Maia.jpg 336w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Maia-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Sawyer and Elaina who now live in Spokane, WA:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Ladybops.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-741\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Ladybops.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Ladybops.jpg 448w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Ladybops-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Sawyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-742\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Sawyer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Sawyer.jpg 448w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2011\/07\/blog-7.11-Sawyer-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Lord!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=737&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just skyped with\u00a0our daughter-in-law, Anna, and our two grandchildren in Spokane, WA.\u00a0 Skype is an amazing thing, to be able to talk and see and laugh with people a bazillion miles away!\u00a0 Here are recent pix of our four &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2011\/07\/20\/grandkids-are-the-best\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Grandkids are the BEST!!!! 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