Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Celebrating 40 Years...

1969...the year seven couples from our church youth group got married...forty years ago!
We've stayed in touch these years...reunions, camping, special trips to celebrate another decade.
We've walked with each other through the difficult and good times...
We've raised our babies together - thirty five children between the seven couples...
Now we have eighty grandchildren among us.
We have teachers and preachers -
Fruit growers and truck drivers -
Farmers and a propane business -
Tutorers and Sunday School teachers -
Carpenters -
Godly mothers and fathers...
...our arrows have gone far.

...we've given ourselves a name...
...the sixty-niners...

This year we celebrated at the von Trapp Lodge in Stowe, Vermont...
...a lovely place!
...descendants from Austria...
...and the Sound of Music...

...we talked and laughed around a real fireplace...
...and food, of course!
...we enjoyed a two hour dinner with delicious food...
...and a wonderful server!
...our table was impeccable...
...and the service was perfect!

...a lovely place to celebrate forty years of marriage!

...my next post will be on the lodge itself...

...blessedness!

ox


1 comment:

Shelly said...

Oh wow! What a neat thing for you couples to celebrate together, and what a lovely place to do it at~one that I've wanted to visit myself. Congratulations and many happy more to you!

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