Mom and Dad’s 60th Anniversary

Next week, my parents will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary, and we’ve pulled out all the stops to honor this achievement! 

This past Saturday, the whole family (minus three grandchildren out of town) gathered in a suite at the Texas Rangers’ game. For all 51 years the Texas Rangers have been a club, our family has been a fan. We have spent many happy days at games throughout that time, but this eclipsed them all. Several home runs and another tick in the win column capped off the day. Fun was had by all. 

Today, my sisters and I are taking our parents down memory lane—literally! We are driving them to Ft. Worth, where they both grew up and where they raised all of us. We will visit the sites of their childhood homes, the church where they met and married, the schools they attended and then, on the other side of town, the places important in our growing up years. Our goal is to trigger stories we might not have heard before. We will take notes as well as do some recording for our family records. (If you want to see some of this, be sure to follow on Instagram or my Facebook page to get that update!)

Finally, on June 28th, their actual anniversary, all my siblings and our spouses will join Mom and Dad for a nice dinner together. 

Mom and Dad continue to be a picture of God’s grace to all of us in our marriages, including their grandchildren as they marry and raise their children. 

We feel very blessed to be able to celebrate this milestone when so many don’t, but we are most grateful to be the recipients of a godly heritage.