December – When December’s snows fall fast, marry and your love will last.

Today Dear and I are celebrating the day we got married forty years ago. We were married on a Friday evening in Southern California.

I love this photo of my dear maternal grandmother and me. She was a gem.

My grandmother, my mom and me.

Our sweet and oldest niece was at our wedding.

My paternal grandparents came to the wedding, too. This was not a given and we were pleased that they came.

This is Dear’s paternal grandmother and she was not able to travel to the wedding but she visited us in our first apartment.

Out of order but this is a photo from the rehearsal for the wedding.

Here we are heading off to our honeymoon.

As my dear old Pop would say we are so thankful to God for all He “did to us” these forty years! “Thank you God for what you did to us” was my pop’s prayer. He has given us peace and joy through the hard times and good times. He continues to lay His hand upon us and lead us beside still waters. We already had a wonderful anniversary celebration in England in July but that doesn’t stop us from continuing our celebration today. We are headed to a little town north of us to enjoy dinner at a restaurant we enjoy on our actual anniversary day! We trust God for the future of our marriage.