Yikes! I totally forgot today was Friday and I didn't do a special "Friday Foto Friends" Post, so I guess this will have to be it. Most of you have already seen it since last night. Sorry I totally forgot today was Friday!!
Now, let's try to remember how to get over to Deb's place at Breathing in Grace and see what our other Friday Foto Friends have been up to!!
Happy Valentine's Day!
Do you remember where you were and how you celebrated Valentine's Day fifty years ago?
I sure do...
Fifty years ago I was a newly engaged young lady (engaged on January 25, 1969), and here I am with my sweetheart, celebrating his 21st birthday, which was on February 16th...so we celebrated our engagement, Valentine's Day, and his birthday all at once.
It was a very exciting time!!
Today it hit me that this was all fifty years ago, because this year will be our 50th wedding anniversary on August 16, 2019! We met and had our first date in October of 1968, and by January 25th, 1969, we were engaged! It was a whirlwind courtship and engagement...but it must have been ordained by God, because we are still here together fifty years later!!
So I was looking through our scrapbook of our first year together, and reminiscing about our first Valentine's Day. If you can read the newspaper clipping above, I saw this recipe for a heart shaped cake and baked it for my sweetie on Valentine's Day. Then we had the other big cake on his birthday two days later, at a family party at his Aunt Nellie's house. That was the first time both sides of the family were together...my parents met his parents for the first time...and it was an exciting time for all.
Not long after we put our engagement announcement in the local newspapers:
And then the fun began.
But I won't share all the details of showers and parties and plans now. Maybe I will do that as a series over the next few months leading up to our anniversary. After all, we only have a 50th Wedding Anniversary once in a lifetime! So we might as well spend a little time celebrating and remembering. We are not planning to have any big party to celebrate. I would like to take a trip somewhere. But these are things we are still talking and "dreaming about".
Here is the birthday card I gave to my sweetheart on his 21st birthday, as we were "looking to this day"...
Some pretty poignant thoughts as we were envisioning what our life would be together:
Little did we know at that time just where the Lord would take us on this journey of the next fifty years.
I like what the card said:
"But today, well lived, makes every yesterday
A dream of happiness,
and every tomorrow a vision of hope."
Here we were on Easter Sunday of that year, at my family home, after attending church together, looking forward to our dream of happiness and a vision of hope.
I thank the Lord that we started our life together seeking God's plan for our lives.
It hasn't always been an easy road...actually quite the opposite many times...
But He has never failed us.
So very thankful for my sweetheart, and for the years God has blessed us with.
We truly have been blessed.
