47th Anniversary

October

Dad & Mom's 47th Wedding Anniversary

Congratulations!

Bouts came and made their special day much more special. Enjoying a delicious fall harvest meal of roasted root veggies, boerenkool from our garden, baby greens salad...

  At Chris's for Kenny's 12th birthday - the baby of the family is growing up! 

 

 Good to visit with Mark too who was home on a break from Ottawa U

Also went for Josh's 16th earlier in the month

(wearing Opa's klompen in the Spring)

45 Years as Husband & Wife!

45 years of love

Our dear parents

We praise God for His faithfulness to Dad & Mom through all these years!

We are so grateful for their love for the Lord, and their love for eachother and for us, their children & grandchildren. I can't thank them enough for all their love and care for me - especially during this very difficult year! May the Lord reward & bless them richly!

We celebrated with the family 2 weeks ahead since the actual date was already taken by our church's Kingdom Seekers banquet - which turned out to be quite a celebration too!

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Our little family celebration started with Dad & Mom's grand entrance with "Here comes the Bride" being belted out by Dad while the grandkids watched open-mouthed. LOL.

After a scrumptious meal, a Trivia Game about Dad & Mom/Opa & Oma teased our brains with questions about their wedding, their various dwelling places, and different things about their lives, and of course: "What is something that Opa says a lot?" to which the grandkids immediately & gleefully said: "Now Moo!" Yeah, Dad, you've asked for it. :) The bonus question re a character trait/gift of each that we're thankful for gave us opportunity to honour and build-up these 2 special people. And, of course, special music was performed by many of the grandkids and, surprise, Christine playing a piece on her recently acquired harp!

We've been so spoiled (& tend to take it for granted) having godly parents and siblings and being close enough to be able to get together fairly easily (compared to our parents who left their families far, far away and were lucky to have even 1 family member come to their wedding! - and the S's who just had 2 more of their kids move far away!). We did miss Heidi tho who is in the US studying hard, and Daniel (who was pretending to be a YP at RLL and doing everything but school!).

Beautiful centerpiece from Sharon.

And I must mention the cross-stitched masterpiece that Betty worked on for the past 8 years! and finished just in time to present it to Dad & Mom that day! (Its been professionally framed since and is now hanging above the fireplace!)

"Great is Thy Faithfulness, O God my Father!"

Our trip to BC

This is extremely late, but I thought I'd attempt to get a couple pictures at least from our trip to BC. We thank God for the opportunity we had to see a bit of that beautiful country!

Our gracious hosts, Jack & Corrine Hummelman, and his brother & wife, took us for a trip to Mt. Whistler, and we even enjoyed some amazing rides on different gondolas and a ski lift up to the very top.

Here I am at the top of the world, with my own miniature version of the 2010 Olympics symbol (I left my mark there).

And John & I even sat on the real one for pictures. :)

The next couple are from White Rock, at the coast of the Pacific pretty much.