Happy 26th Anniversary!

Today Vern and I are celebrating our 26th Anniversary. We started off the day with a candle light breakfast. However, the day will be very full with doing a lot of work up in jungle camp trying to get our house in shape for our move up on Saturday. We are hoping to get away for a supper together. I thought a picnic would be fun but it looks like we could get some rain this afternoon. To My Hubby: You are the love of my life and I am enjoying spending my life along side you. We might soon have to get a couple of rocking chairs and "Rock Out Together' as these bodies of ours are starting to age, but there is no one I would rather enjoying "Rocking" with. I love you.

50th Anniversary

Vern and I are both blessed to come from Christian homes. We enjoy all the times we get with our families as it is always a time to make some special memories. We were blessed 6 years ago to celebrate Vern's parents 50th Anniversary. Many, very special memories were made together. And this weekend was all we had ever hoped it could be. It was an awesome time together celebrating with family and friends. As many of you know my mother has very poor health but we Praise the Lord for giving us as a family such a special day together. The one big group picture is of my parents, grandmother, and all of us siblings. The other group picture is of all the in-laws that have married into the family. We goof around a lot with all the in-laws but they are totally awesome and make our family complete.

We had a program during the party. One of my brothers put together a game called, "It's all relative." The sisters were on one team and the brothers were on the other. It was packed with family trivia which I believe the SISTERS won. Our kids and Vern and I sang "I can't Help Falling in Love With You" to my parents. My siblings and I sang "You Rasie Me Up". A neice and nephew played their violins. There were several special numbers. One of my brothers had a gospel presentation and Vern's brother put together a presentation from the Pume saying "Thank-You to my folks for letting their children go to tell them God's Word. It was a fun and meaningful program.
I will be posting a picture of all the grandchildren and then a big group picture of everyone in the family but I need to get them from one of my sisters. These are a pictures of family. The picture of the men holding the "50" are two of my brother-in-laws, Don and Al. They were born on the same day and the same year. And guess what, this fall they will both be turning 50. It was very convenient that there just happened to be a 50 balloon right there to get this picture.

Anniversary Eve

For my parent's 50th Anniversary Party we had the event in my sister's church gym. So the evening before several families got together to decorate. The ladder that my brother-in-law was standing on was not stable at all so although my nephew seems to be sitting down on the job, it was an important job. Several people took turns of standing there trying to stabilize the ladder. I put in a picture of the poster Ruth helped me with and of a couple on the wall. I think the posters were a nice way to help decorate and we all had fun walking around checking out every one's family poster. It seemed like there were plenty of jobs for everyone but it was also a good time to connect with each other again.

June 11, 1983