Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Weekend of Celebrations

This past weekend we celebrated five birthdays and two fortieth wedding anniversaries. Saturday evening we had all of the Macduff clan here to celebrate the birthdays of family members who were born in either August or September. We also added the fortieth wedding anniversary of Matt's parents to the evening's festivities.

Sunday we had my family here to celebrate Grace's fourteenth birthday and my parents' fortieth wedding anniversary. My parents and Matt's parents were married one week apart back in 1969. Pretty wild. Two couples who didn't even know each other forty years ago would someday be woven into the same family fabric when their two eldest children would marry. Only God could have imagined it.

We only remembered to get the camera out on Sunday. Here's a picture of Lydia and Joel helping Grace blow out her birthday candles.
This is why Joel is wearing his cowboy hat: The exciting event of the evening occurred when five cows escaped their pasture and ran loose in our neighborhood. Paul got on his bike in an attempt to round them up, the rest of the kids (and adults) went outside to watch all the fun and Joel ran inside to grab his cowboy hat. After all, how is one to round up stray cows unless he's wearing a cowboy hat?

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