As I've mentioned previously, everyone on Mom's side was in town this past week and we celebrated my Grandpa and Grandma Sevcik's (pronounced 'sev' as in severe + sick) 50th anniversary! It was a wonderful week of fellowshipping together, playing games, laughing, talking, etc. I gotta tell you all; my family is seriously the coolest :P I never laugh so hard as when I'm with them!
Grandpa and Grandma's story is something else. They met on July 11th of 1960 when Grandma was 18 and Grandpa was 22, almost 23. The day she met him she said that "Tom seems like a pretty neat guy." She told us that the first thing she noticed about him was his red curly hair. On July 15th, they went on their first date. Grandma told us that they went to an outdoor show and she was really cold, so she snuggled up against his shoulder to keep warm, and he musta been wondering what kind of girl she was! Grandpa recounted that after the first date he was pretty hopeful that there would be a second date. Grandma recorded in her journal between July and August that the more time she spent with Grandpa, the more she saw him as someone she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. She said that she couldn't find anything wrong with him!
On August 11 of the same year, just a month after they'd started dating, Grandpa asked Grandma if she would like to spend the rest of her life with him as his wife and the mother of his children. Of course, she said yes! Earlier on Saturday, my Uncle Joe had called my Great Grandma Beers and asked her some questions regarding Grandpa's proposal. She recounted that they had been standing in the kitchen when Grandpa had asked if he could marry Grandma. Grandma Beer's response was "Well, if that's what she wants. But she's fickle." If you know my Great-Grandma, you know that she's got a lot of spunk, even now at the age of 96, and that's definitely the kind of thing she'd say!
Ann Beers became Ann Sevcik on December 3rd of 1960. The night before the wedding Grandma recorded in her journal that she had no doubts about becoming his, and it all seemed surreal.
After their time on the hot-seat answering questions, Grandpa announced that they had a surprise for us. Boy did they!!! I can't describe it well enough in words and pictures, so here's a video =) I apologize for the shakiness of the video, but I got a little emotional ;)
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| Cole wearing a finger puppet :) |
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| DINNER!!!! |
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| <3 Aren't they adorable??? <3 |
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| best buddies! |
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| Some of the girlies! |
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| The cake with the original cake topper. |
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| Mike and Amy |
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| Luke trying to lick the butter off his lips... |
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| I LOVE HER!!!! |
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| Uncle Raymond and his camera :D :D |
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| Luke with that mischievous grin. |
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He was being such a stinker and scrunching up his
eyes whenever I tried to take a picture, |
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| The dudes :) |
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| <3 <3 <3 |
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| That looks says it all! 50 years and still so in love :) |
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| I love to see my Grandpa laugh! |
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| The getaway car. |
