{"id":44,"date":"2007-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-12-20T00:55:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T05:55:27","slug":"fantastic-2-weeks-with-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/2007\/12\/01\/fantastic-2-weeks-with-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic 2 Weeks with Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/files\/2007\/12\/1274_29342.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/files\/2007\/12\/1274_29342.jpg\" alt=\"Us with our two little treasures.\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>We just had a SUPER FANTASTIC visit with our 2 sons and their families.&nbsp; We are soooooooooooooooo thankful for those two special weeks.&nbsp; Most of our time was spent here on the flight center.&nbsp; The days quickly slipped away as we had our advanced Birthday party; early Christmas celebration; hot dog roast, mountain climbing and visiting neighbours etc.&nbsp; It was lots of fun seeing the cousins together.&nbsp; Besides scouting out Grandma&#8217;s house, they had fun exploring the whole center &#8211; walking thru the grass with bare feet to swings, the slide and the trampoline.&nbsp; As a family, spending time in prayer and studying the book of Colosians together was also very meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>In Manila we had shopping, dental appointments, go carting, swimming , bowling and visiting their former school.&nbsp; Lots of fun memories!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The day to take them to the airport came all to soon.&nbsp; Good byes are always very sad and hard for us, but we have the joy of knowing we will see them again soon &#8211; Craig&#8217;s family in March and Ryan&#8217;s in April.&nbsp; By then our grandchildren will have doubled!<\/p>\n<p>Now we have a 2 week period to finish up some work projects and begin packing.&nbsp; Lots of families arrive on the center Dec. 22nd, which begins a week full of activities.&nbsp; We are thankful to be surrounded by many friends for our last Christmas in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>Our time here is quickly coming to an end.&nbsp; We appreciate you praying for us that we will keep our focus on the Lord and His plans for us &#8211; and not the hardship it will be to say final farewells.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just had a SUPER FANTASTIC visit with our 2 sons and their families.  We are soooooooooooooooo thankful for those two special weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}