26 years ago today, family and friends gathered in a very small and extremely hot chapel (do I remember the vows? vaguely. But I sure do remember how hot it was!) , in Fort Belvoir to witness a young couple (us, duh) join together in marriage. There have been a lot of ups and downs throughout those years and somehow we've managed to hold the bond...which, in a nutshell meant, I gotta come up with an anniversary gift! So I go to the old standby and google "26th anniversary" to find the perfect gift and I get:
"The 26th Wedding Anniversary does not have any traditional materials or Symbols associated with it. This Wedding Anniversary does not have any Flowers associated with it. This Anniversary does not have any Gemstones associated with it."
"Who knew?" So now it's decision time. We decided on Iron...(yes, traditionally the 6th anniversary is when you give iron but I think on our 6th I might have given Ingrid an ironing board) So today it was Iron, and we (who are so up on the new stuff) went and saw Ironman. Good movie, well done. Too bad Robert Downey Jr. wasted much of his life wasted. Hopefully he learned from it. But in any event he did a good job in the lead role.
We also went and had a nice dinner at the Outback - charbroiled ribeye with all the trimmings (and no bloomin' onion! aren'tcha proud?)
And yesterday we had a wonderful dinner at the Mediterranean Breeze in Herndon, a really nice Greek/Mediterranean Restaurant, with my brother in law, Chris, who was in town for a top secret software meeting (I think it had to do with new games for the Wii), our son Mike, who is on a three week break from school and my fantastic Mom and Dad! It's been fun and it's not even the weekend yet!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY INGRID! (I love you)
13 comments:
You are a great blogger, frogman.
funny that there is no stone or gift attatched.
probably cause very few make it that far, they figure "eh" (said in my Mom's voice)
thanks for this.
-ps Batman is mad cause I Furminated him.
ucddzpps: i don't really remember the wedding being hot, i just remember that i had taken a big tumble on my rollerskates and had Both knees skinned for my dress. and I remembered that Ingrid and my Mom looked both very very pretty.
it was Pauli's wedding that I cried my eyes out.
a-booooo hoooooooo, with hiccups even. and she looks pretty there at her wedding, that wasn't what made me cry.
it was....as Dad would say...the unknown!
Happy Anniversary! Yes, I remember it being hot. That's why I always get married in winter. Heh.
Happy Anniversary! I remember when the first two of my high school friends got married the same year, my Sophomore year in college. One got married in June and it was 105 degrees. One got married Thanksgiving weekend and there was a massive ice storm that morning, which cut down attendance quite a bit.
Your baby brother and I spent our first anniversary driving back to Cleveland from Wisconsin. I'm sure we celebrated the "paper" anniversary by eating at a rest stop McDonald's somewhere on the Indiana turnpike. I think that after you get to the 20th or 25th, they quit assigning symbols to anniversaries not ending in "0" (except the 75th, probably--only 49 more to go!). So I guess you're going to have to come up with something creative every year!
ps: TEN BUCKS for MOVIE TICKET!???!
you must be rich.
I'm laughing cuz this is fun, thanks for the happy wishes and...49 years to go?!?! maybe if I get a nice deck of cards and give her one card a year...I'm sure to lose a few on the way. I guess we could have waited for Ironman to come out at our local library and saved that 20 bucks but Michael is just gonna have to go without dinner for a week. And I need to know a lil bit about the Furminator - $30? is it as good as the ads say? because we have 3 big shedders here that could use it.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY to you both. Ingrid, do you realize you have now endured more years of practical jokes than I did..........
kitty cat - I don't say "eh". have you noticed how Brenna and Chris say "heh", & I think Chris has done it since he met Brenna. (hi, Brenna) I think that must be midwestern.
I also remember that Fred came back the day after the wedding to see if there was any cake left.
Mother, you so DO say "eeehhh" when something is "eh" (example: this place is supposed to have great calamari, and you don't agree, you say "eh".
excuse me-----family? agree?
"eh"
ps FURMINATOR RULES!!! just TRY it! you'll like it.
so will BLACK AND WHITE
black and white Kittys that is.
yes, i said Kittys, not Kitties.
Send me your Furminator so I can try it...you shouldn't need it again for awhile, eh?
Black and White say mweh...send it please! we are too furry.
Batman says no dice.
and he says: Next blog already!
we is impatient cat, we is.
does My Mom say :"mweh"?
maybe she does!
Mom does so say "eh" right through that cute wee nose she has. I KNOW she does. And it's a trademark, Mimi, so don't even think about trying to deny it anymore. :-)
We need Feathernator here. Like Honey, these birds leave their coverings everwhere.
N&C are off looking for a place for N when he starts his job Aug, 25.
I believe Breena's not responsible for Hos' "heh." He used that back in Pasadena, as far as I remember.
heh, eh?
-p
wait, how did i miss DF's comment, "..always gets married in winter"...classic!
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