Thirty-seven Years

At 7:00 in the evening, thirty-seven years ago, Edward and I were married in Austin, Minnesota. It's hard to believe that many years have gone by. I can remember celebrating our first anniversary. Your dad bought me an ironing board, and a big metal bowl for mixing up homemade bread. I no longer have the ironing board. It broke ages and eons ago, and I now have two--a little built-in-cupboard one that Ed uses, and a larger stand-alone board that I use (albeit less frequently!). I still have the aluminum bowl, and since I seldom make homemade bread anymore, I use it most frequently to mix up the apples for apple pie and for mixing the stuffing for Thanksgiving. Sometimes I use it for salads if I'm taking a salad to a carry-in dinner because it holds a lot, and I can feed more people.

For our second anniversary, we took our friends, Gary and Sally McDougall, out to dinner at the top of the John Hancock building in Chicago. At the time, our dinner tab was over $100. I wonder what that would be in today's dollars. Weren't we the big shots!

Please don't worry that I'm going to list our activities for all the anniversaries. I just wanted to mention the first two, and then tell you what Ed and I did after work today. We went to the Granite City restaurant in Fort Wayne with several of our dear friends, and enjoyed a lovely evening al fresco. It really was a perfect night. I wish I could have shared it with you all!

Anyway, no pictures. You'll have to imagine what Ed and I looked like in 1973, him in his cute bowtie, and me in my homemade wedding dress.

Pictures from Sammy's wedding

Some fun ones... I don't know about the jumping thing or the casually walking down the road thing, but whatever.

Testing new flip video

Mom got a flip video. What are the odds she actually uses it?

Labor Day Weekend

I am sitting around today on my day off, doing laundry / getting ready for a trip to Decatur tomorrow, and I am so excited! I always have so much fun when we drive up to visit. Honestly this time I'm more sad than excited, this will be the last Betsey&co visit before they leave for HK and that's seriously heartbreaking. I am going to miss our terrible movie nights and overindulging SO much. Anyway I was thinking what things we should do this weekend, and obviously food was the major focus. I wish Margie was coming so I could try those delicious looking pizzas she made (or stuffed shells, or breakfast casserole)... Recently Karl's been on a pancake kick at our favorite restaurant Farm because he likes the lemon syrup they serve with them and yesterday a blog I read posted THIS recipe for Lemon Ricotta Pancakes and I thought it was very serendipitous. Don't they look delicious?
So maybe we can make some of those this weekend... But even as good as those look I don't know if anyone would pick a different pancake over Claudia's homemade buttercakes.

As I'm writing this I am watching Rachel Zoe, and they're talking about Fleetwood Mac and I have to post about it because I had forgotten how good they are. It's nice to be reminded:






Another thing Karl and I are doing this Labor Day weekend is going to see Vampire Weekend in concert. I am a little more excited about the opening act Beach House:




And now that I listen to them back to back, I think Beach House's lead Singer sounds kind of like Stevie Nicks!


Well that's what we're up to this Labor Day weekend, how are the Utah & NC Gimbels spending their 3 day weekend??