Fifty Years

Fifty years ago today, my parents were married. This is a picture taken not too long before they got married. Dad had brought Mom down south here to meet his parents for the first time. That is my Grandpa in the background. Mom was 16 years old and Dad was 20. So young! They have been through trials and hardships but they have made it together for fifty years.

We had a nice family get-together for them on Sunday. All my siblings were there and my daughter drove up here too and stayed until yesterday. We ate lots of goodies. My sister made the prettiest two-tier anniversary cake with silk sunflowers on it. My mother loves sunflowers.
My sister is supposed to email me the pictures she took with her digital camera and when I get them, I will probably put up a picture of her cake.
I must say it was the very best white cake I have ever tasted in my whole life! Everyone else said the same thing.


We all gave Mom and Dad a card with a nice big sum of money in it so now they can take a little trip somewhere when the time is right. They haven't yet decided where to go but they were very surprised. They have been getting cards in the mail from old friends who saw their anniversary announcement and pictures (wedding day and current pic) in our local newspaper.

I had such a good visit with my daughter. I wish my vacation had not ended on Monday because my daughter was still here. I won't see her again until Christmas time.

My dog is having some problems again. I think he may have arthritis. I am taking him to the vet this coming Monday. He also has a hump on his rear that seems to be getting bigger. I have had the vet look at this before and the vet said it was nothing to be concerned about but both my parents, daughter and I think it looks like it is growing. This time I am going to insist that they do some bloodwork and maybe a needle biopsy of his hump on his rear and also the quarter size lump on his neck which the vet pooh-pahed too.

I keep having troubles getting my paragraphs here to have the right enough space between them! I hope this one looks better.

Thank you to all who wished me a Happy Birthday! My parents gave me a cute cupcake candle, a Bee Gees cd and some money in a card. My sister gave me a cd from my Amazon wish list. It is The Flaming Lips' "Soft Bulletin". My younger brother and his wife gave me some Shania perfume and some chocolate/raspberry candies and the cutest musical birthday card. My daughter recently bought herself a new plasma tv so she gave me her Toshiba flat panel tv which isn't very old. My dvd's work on it too! I was having troubles with my Netflix dvds and I thought maybe the problem was with my little tv.