Anniversary Celebration #1

While we were at Eileen's mid month, she had a family celebration for our 50th Anniversary.  It does not seem possible that it has been that long, which I think, means it has been a good 50 years.  Our Anniversary is not until August, but we are going to be celebrating for several months it looks like.  Anyway, we enjoyed our time with some of Tommy's family and we do appreciate the wonderful evening. 

 The beautiful cake with gorgeous roses.  The cake was a white almond pound cake and was so moist and yummy.

 Such a beautiful table.  Eileen's pecan squares were a delicious addition. 

                                                   The happy couple.

 Clarice gave us this beautiful bird and flower painting on metal and is perfect in our plant room.  Thanks, Clarice, we love it.

 A picture frame from Eileen, Tammy, Rachel, Zabrina and families.  The left side is a picture of us on our wedding day and underneath the date is engraved.  The right side is for a recent picture of us and underneath it is engraved 50 years.  It is a very special gift.  I now have a picture in the right side.  Thanks so much to all of you.

This is the only picture I have right now of the 4 of us, Tommy, Gloria, Tammy and Eileen.  We are waiting for a better one and when it comes, I will trade it out.

           Zabrina, Robbie, Olivia with Zabrina and Rachel's Mom, Clarice.

                                           Rachel, and her family.

 The three cousins, probably when they were making plans to get together at Tammy's in August.

Rachel's twin boys, Kyler and Keeton with Zabrina's daughter, Olivia

 Sister-in-law, Clarice and Bubba, Rachel's husband having a cell phone
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Debra goes to Eileen's meeting and she made and decorated the cake and the flower arrangement in the previous picture.  Here she is making another table arrangement with the beautiful roses and greenery taken from the cake.  She did such a wonderful job and we enjoyed all the fruits of her labor.  Eileen made some delicious Pecan Squares so as you can imagine, the low fat diet was not applied that night.  Thanks so much to Eileen, Debra and all their helpers. We loved it all.

Here are 3 pictures our niece sent that were better than ours or an addition to what we had.

Family Visit

In mid June we visited Tommy's sister Eileen and on Saturday went to see one of their cousins, Linda.  Her husband was in rehab so after visiting Linda in their home, we went to see JR,  We enjoyed the visit with all the memory telling and stories.  Tammy was with us so she especially enjoyed all the stories she hadn't heard.  Now she has the job of trying to decide which stories were true and which ones were enhanced!!!  The picture is not very clear and we found out on this trip that transporting pictures from iPad to computer greatly decreases the quality. 

A Fun Trip with Special Friends

The first weekend in June Carol, Vince and us spent the weekend in Tyler.  We had so much fun mostly laughing and talking.  We played a lot of 42 and this was probably the highlight of the trip.  We also went to a Blueberry Farm and to the Rose Garden and CJ and I toured the Rose Queen Museum.  Visited the cemetery where Mom and Dad are buried and this picture doesn't do it justice as it was the Friday after Memorial Day and lots of flags flying. 

San Antonio Vacation

In mid May we went on vacation to San Antonio.  We stayed at the JW Marriott Resort just out of San Antonio in the hill country.  It was beautiful there and so relaxing.  Perfect stay with perfect weather.