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Buffet Table

Buffet table again

My nephew, first in line and already eating. My brother and his wife. She put together an awesome Power Point in honor of my parents.

That is it for now until someone processes some different pictures.

What I do not have pictures of yet are the soloists and the dispay tables. There was one table that we had her dress , wedding album, cake topper, Bible and various other things from the wedding day. In the back I had a Guess the Price from 1960 table and sample wedding gifts.

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Table Decorations. We found old records at the thrift store for 50 cents or less. We printed some black and white wedding pictures and glued them to the records as a centerpiece. The other record I warped in the oven and made a bowl for the Chex Mix appetizers. The baskets were baskets we have collected at our store through the years to display merchandise. My sister spray-painted those pink. The baskets were used as the bread baskets. I made candy bar wrappers with the theme for the party favors. My sister and I finally getting our own dinner. She is in the pink and I am in the black in the back.

My parents are in the center during our Pastors tribute to them.

My brother is doing a quiz. I know he is blurry but this showed some of the decorations and the number of people. This was only a portion of the people.

That is me introducing the weddding party that was present. In essence, it was my parents, my grandfather , flower girl and a groomsmen but I forgot to mention him. He was family so he didnt care.

More coming.

The cake...

The cake.... Guests started attacking the cupcakes and the fake banana splits before we even officially started serving the cake.

More pictures coming... I have been under the weather today.

It was a sucesss....

My parent's 50th Anniversary party was a success. I am physically exhausted. We did a 50's theme and it was great. I will post some pictures later when I get them. We had a 15 minute power point presentation about their life. Most of it was pictures of us as kids. My parent's received a standing ovation at the end. It was emotional. Someone told me that my Dad even had tears but he would never admit to it.

I will repeat from a previous post that they have not had a marriage full of greatness. It has been a marriage full of strife and tribulation. Through all this they remained faithful to their vows before God and stayed true to each other. We are their greatest accomplishments. They take pride in us. I had one of the ladies from our church sing the following song from Steve Green.

HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH

Here we are at the start committing to each other
By His word and from our hearts
We will be a family in a house that will be a home
And with faith we'll build it strong

Chorus:
We'll build a household of faith
That together we can make
And when the strong winds blow it won't fall down
As one in Him we'll grow and the whole world will know
We are a household of faith

Now to be a family we've got to love each other
At any cost unselfishly
And our home must be a place that fully abounds with
A reflection of His face

That is what we were raised with... A Household of Faith.

It was a fantastic evening with over 80 people in attendance. What a tribute to their marriage.
The food was fantastic. My alfredo sauce was superb, if I say so myself.

Fantastic night, fantastic memories.

72 Years!!!

Long before I was thought about and long before my mother was born a man and woman met and fell in love. Today my grandparents celebrated 72 years of marriage. KUDOS to them and Praise God!

What an accomplishment! We celebrated at a bitter sweet short reception at church. Sweet because of the celebration of their marriage. Bitter because this is one of their last visits to church because it is too hard on them to get up and going now. We then went as a family out to Red Lobster. It was a nice day.