We were married 55 years ago today.
My other baby brother and she who sees robins first are celebrating 44 years of wedded bliss today!
53! Happy Anniversary to us!
Yesterday was a banner day for cards!
Cards from Minnesota, Indiana, Wisconsin and Florida.
Photo cards from Minnesota and North Dakota.
We made a quick trip back to our home in the woods, just to check on things, pick up mail that the Post Office missed forwarding, visit with my baby brother and his bride and to pet Baxter, also got to see my other baby brother and she who sees robins first (from a far because he had ben ill with the flu), and a visit with my parents. We spent the night and decided that we need a new bed there as our new bed here is much more comfortable.
Well we made it 51 years! I chalk that up to marrying your best friend, one with whom you trust your inner most thoughts and always has your back. Someone you can laugh with and cry with.
This is the photo that hangs on the living room wall... it has a keepsake from our 50th Anniversary a year ago.
A card from a special neighbor showed up in the mail. "Time has a way of making love more beautiful"
We will have a quiet day at home...we will cook something special for supper....and thank God that we are still together, have a cozy warm home, enough food to eat and even in the Isolation of 2020 we still love each other!
More photos of that day 51 years ago can be found here.
Far Side
We were married 49 years ago today. It was a 2 PM ceremony at the church with a reception afterwards in the church sociial hall… small sandwiches, cookies, mints and cake…oh and coffee and punch. We had a wedding dance the next night (Sunday) at Anglers Tavern in Osage. It was bitterly cold… –20 F.
We honeymooned for one night in Thief River Falls, Minnesota where it was even colder.
Today we will go out for a late lunch most likely with my parents and then have a quiet evening at home.
I still have the veil…the dress was made into a Baptismal Gown and Hey Mikey wore it.
Happy Anniversary to us!
It was cold…about –20F or –6C eh!
We were married in the afternoon and had a reception afterwards. We had cake, Christmas cookies, coffee, punch and some fancy sandwitches…they used to take a loaf of bread and swirl food coloring in it. Then it would be sliced lengthwise and the layers would be filled with cheese…ham salad etc…fancy….the reception took place in the church social hall.
This is a photo of the inside of the church taken from the balcony.
We had fun looking at the backs of the heads in this photo. Many who are now gone. My Maternal Grandmother and Far Guys Maternal Grandmother both wore hats as did our Mothers.
This is the entire wedding party. The gal( my Aunt that was younger than me) on the far left died last spring but the rest of the group are still alive and well.
48 years…it sounds like a long time…but it doesn’t seem that long ago. We know each other well and can finish each other sentences and often are thinking the same thing at the same time. We are still best friends and on good days we both have a wicked sense of humor.
We had planned to spend the day away to see a Grand…but we are supposed to get a bunch of snow and it may be a winter storm so we will spend the day at home. Warm and safe instead of in a snowstorm someplace.
We got married 47 years ago. High School Sweethearts. We were young. Statistics were not on our side, we beat the odds.
Those first years were hard, but we had many good times together as a young couple before we had children. Children change your dynamic as a couple, there is no more I or we…it is the children, the us… a family…a team.
It was 20 below zero that Saturday morning, we were married at 2 in the afternoon.
We were engaged on July 5 1969 and married December 20 1969.
It has been give and take and communication that has gotten us this far. We were friends first, and we are still best friends. More wedding photos can be found here.
Happy Anniversary to us! We will have a quiet day at home and we will cook supper together…we have the fixins for a lobster and steak supper.
We had a nice day yesterday for our anniversary. Quiet. Far Guy took to baking his Christmas Caramel Rolls…I went into the kitchen several times to do dishes and help out when needed. He is very particular about his caramel…it has to be done just right and by golly it better turn out okay…not sugary and not hard as a board. He stirs and stirs until it is just perfect. Not sure about all his dashes of this and that but it seems to work for him. He made two pans of caramel rolls.
We got a few new ornaments this year.
This is the ornament from the cookie exchange. Daughter Jen purchased it…everyone brings an ornament and it is unwrapped and then we commence the tossing of the dice for doubles. If you roll doubles you get to swap for a different ornament if you want to swap…if not you can keep what you have. Someone sets a timer for an undisclosed amount of time. Fun. I am certain that Jen chose this ornament because of it’s “Hawaii colors”…if she ever runs away from home…I think I know where to look.
Hopefully the grands will devour some of the cookies…if not the people at woodcarving seem to like cookies and never complain when I bring them. I have 12 dozen cookies in the freezer….uffda. One of the gals makes Almond Bread…you have not lived until you have tasted that!
This beautiful ornament arrived in the mail. It is from our friend Sue in Indiana. She said it would remind us of her Joe and yes it does!
My parents took us out for supper last night, to our favorite place in the boonies…steak and salad…our favorite foods! We visited with a few of our neighbors…always fun when a number of people remember your anniversary. Marge called early in the morning…she is Far Guy’s God Mother and she never forgets our anniversary or his birthday. My other baby brother came by with a card and a big hug. It was a good day.
It is our 45th wedding anniversary today!
Old hands chapped and worn with a few crooked fingers…some that work and some that don’t. Best friends hands…sometimes the hands carry silent messages…communication at its best.
Young hands ready to start a new life together.
Gosh it seems like only yesterday… but here we are two children and five grands later.
Growing older sucks some days…but for the most part we have been blessed.
Well it is that time of year again. Wedding Anniversary time. We have managed to annoy, disagree and love each other through another year. I am a lucky woman to still have my best friend and soul mate to irritate everyday!
A long time ago..“We ate cake!”
At least we were civil and fed the cake to each other nicely. I watch some of those “Wedding Shows” with some of the wedding cake fiascos and the smearing of the cake on the face. It is not funny at all in my opinion. I think the younger generation has lost respect for this part of the wedding day.
Other than breathe a sigh of relief and greet all your guests..the first thing you do together as a married couple is cut the cake..a joint effort..holding the cake knife together. Then you feed each other part of the first slice..the symbolism being that you will provide for each other from now on. I think it is a wonderful tradition.
I have restored the photographs that were in our wedding album. They have faded over time..even if they were in an album. More wedding photos can be found here.
I still have the dress and veil. I would like to take the dress apart and have it made into a baptismal gown for my Great Grands ( someday far off in the future)..either that or donate it to a museum. I would like to do something useful with it.
What have you done with your old wedding dress? Is it like mine..wrapped in white tissue paper and stuck in a box? :)
“It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.”
Ah young love sometimes works out to be old comfortable love.
Communication is the cornerstone of a good relationship. Despite my husbands uncanny ability to know my many moods..he cannot read my mind. He is not Superman. We are much better communicators than we were 42 years ago. I try to use words like I instead of You.. “I feel tired.” versus “You should know I feel tired.” “ I am confused.. what can I help you do?” versus “You obviously are trying to do something that just won’t work.”
Old love and communication: The kind where you can finish each others sentences, the kind where you know when the other is thinking the exact same thing you are..you catch each others eye and smile..and later you compare notes and laugh. The kind where just holding hands is an expression of support encouragement and undying love. The kind that asks “What is on your agenda today and how can I help you?”
Annoyances: Oh there are many.. Today I will share a few things that irritate him..as I see it:
When I chew bubble gum and blow bubbles and pop them…although really good bubble gum is hard to find nowadays.
When I chew gum noisily with my mouth open..the snapping of gum nearly drives him nuts.
He hates my sleepwalking and talking and screaming. I cannot blame him..I don’t like it much either.
He dislikes sand on the floor..occasionally I will come in the house and grab something without taking off my shoes. For shame..for shame.
He gets grumpy when I shave my legs in the tub and forget to rinse it out.
It annoys him if I am right and he is wrong..sometimes the discussion can go on for days.
Sometimes I have time management problems..He likes to be on time..AIS ( That is A** in Seat) times are discussed and agreed upon, so no one is waiting..although sometimes I get to the car before he does..just to make a point..and then I announce the time especially if he is a minute or two late..yup it is all about communication.
So yes..we like to annoy each other sometimes:)
Our Parents on December 20, 1969 
Lovey Dovey White Doves
Sheltering each other with their wings, sitting in a bed of roses. It doesn’t depict that our wings get all ruffled up sometimes or the times when we rest together in the thorns wondering which thorn is going to bite us in the butt next. 
