Mum and Dad's 50th Wedding Anniversary

On the 8th March 2008, Mum and Dad celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary. We had a surprise lunch/party for them at Oscars in Ballarat. My sister, Rochelle had organised with them to go to lunch, just Mum and Dad and Rochelle's family. Rochelle had booked the function room and decorated it in gold balloons and table decs. When they arrived we all jumped out from behind the table to surprise them. They had no idea the rest of us would be there. The rest of us consists of us, My brother Rohan, Wanda and the boys and my other brother, Geoff and his wife Alex. Then of course Rochelle, Mark and their 2 kids.

Wanda had organised some fun things for them to do. The first thing we did while waiting for our meal was Mum and Dad had to answer some trivia questions. Some questions were standard trivia questions but the other questions were made up of things from our childhood. Memories we had. Mum and Dad had to guess the answer to the trivia question and then we all ellaborated on the story, which gave us some great laughs to our memories.

Rochelle had also organised for the most gorgeous delicious chocolate/caramel mud cake. It was to die for. When the cake came out it brought tears to Dad's eyes. Very emotional he is lol.

We then posed for some family photos.

This is my brother Geoff and my sister in law Alex.

After lunch we all went back to Rochelle and Mark's house. Here we had more games for them to play. Mum and Dad had to unwrap items that also related to our childhood and guess what they meant. When Rochelle was about 3 years old we lost her on the Rosebud beach on New Years Day, cause she couldn't find her way back to our umbrella from putting rubbish in the bin, cause they all looked the same. She kept walking and walking until she was found at the Dromana Yacht Club. She was missing for hours and we even had the police out looking for her. For this they unwraped one of Bailey's toy police cars, with little cocktail umbrellas stuck to it. So this brought up the story about that. We laughed at how it only took a minute to go to the bin and 6 hours later and still not back to Mum and Dad. This was one of many many stories we had fun talking about on the day. And lots and lots of laughs too.

We then gave them this tin that I had made them. It's a card in a tin. The pages inside have journalling about the memories we talked about that afternoon and a photo of each family with a spot for each of them to write their personal messages. This also made day have tears.

This is the card that Micayla made for them.

We had a lovely meal and a great day of laughs with my whole family. We didn't leave Rochelle's until 9.30pm that night. I could've stayed longer but I knew by the time we got home it would be 11.30pm and that's just getting way too late. We should've stayed the night cause I was exhausted by the time I got home. Adrian had been drinking so I had to drive.