#56 ANNIVERSARY

Mickey and I decided to start off our 56th Anniversary celebration with hosting a dinner party for 9 of our friends the evening before .

 The table is set 

The meal consisted of:  Susan - Beef Strogaoff - black & regular olives - white & red grape                                                       juice - tea - coffee 

                                      Shirley - Greek Salad

                                      Patty - Home made yeast rolls

                                      Dianna - Carrot cake & Lemon squares

                                      Sandra - Toll house cookies & vanilla ice cream

In other words--a delicious feast prepared by ALL.

After a leisurely, wonderful meal we decided to wait until later for dessert.

(because we were all stuffed!!)

Moving to the living room we watched a Bill Cloud dvd 

"Eating From The Tree Of Good And Evil" 

This is an excellent teaching that Mickey & I share with everyone we can. 

 (left to right) Dianna, Jayme, Sandra, Patty, Arron, Danny

 Gary, Shirley, & Shirley 

Yes we had 2 Shirley's and 4 Smiths!!!

After the dvd we had desserts and coffee and talked and visited until about 10:30.

Thanks to these 9 for making our evening a real blessing

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Saturday - October 4th

 My wonderful card and Pandora charm from Mickey

Charm is a Red Heart set in silver on one side

and "love" in Red in the silver on the other side 

The card reads:

Celebrating the day

I put a ring on your finger

and promised to love you

forever...

...and thanking you 

for making that promise

so easy to keep

Happy 

Anniversary

And added in his own handwriting

"I love you so much.  Thank you for sticking with me for 56 yrs."

 The heart charm itself.  

I am a blessed woman!!

So thankful for God truly making Mickey & I "one flesh", as HIS word declares, for 56 years.