A 70th Anniversary!!!

This is my grandparents favorite picture of themselves. It was taken in the summer of 1942 when they were newlyweds.



Since then they've had 2 children, 6 grandchildren, and 9 great grandchildren with one more on the way. Like most couples they've hads ups and downs. They've dealt with illness and loss but they've also celebrated weddings and birthdays and many, many other wonderful events.

Through it all, my grandparents have remained together, as one unit. There is no way that I can imagine one without the other.

When my grandfather looks at my grandmother you could swear that he's seeing the girl he married on February 21, 2042 - her 21st birthday. Maybe that's why he'd rather celebrate her birthday than anything else. He regularly refuses to celebrate his own birthday in December and, instead, asks that we wait until hers for any gathering.

He still adores her and is incredibly protective of her. It's the way it ought to be. It's what we all want. Someone who loves us intensely and without end.

This is my grandparents at the party we threw in their honor this weekend because a seventieth anniversary is rare and wonderful and demands to be celebrated. It was an honor for my sister and I to put together a party for them and the real gift was just having them there to mark the occasion. I'm lucky to be their granddaughter.