Today is Bastille Day - all over the world, but probably noted most in France! And it's also the 40th anniversary of the day Harry and Barbara got engaged.
Harry actually asked Barb to marry him on July 8th, but I got sidetracked last Sunday and didn't note the date. Although Dad did do a little Family History Quiz in his Sunday School class - no one knew the answer, since I'm not in his class. But it was noted by all who were there!
It was a Sunday night - we'd been together all day - and we were talking and I was kind of getting side-tracked and thinking "Gee, I hope he asks me out for next weekend" and then I realized his last words had been "So, that's why I think we ought to get married."
We felt we should fast and pray about it - to be sure we weren't "answering our own prayers" and we'd go out Friday and see what the answer was. This is pretty funny, but when he called on Wednesday night to confirm when he'd pick me up on Friday, he didn't say anything about the proposal. So I thought, "Maybe I just imagined it."
On Friday, he came and we drove to Hollywood - we were going to a Margot Fonteyn/Rudolf Nureyev program at the Bowl - and he still didn't say anything. So I thought, "Well, I'm not going to be the first one who says something."
So he said, "Well, so what do you think?" And I said, "About what?" (Can you believe me? Don't answer that!)
And now I'm thinking if it was a Friday - and I'm pretty sure it was because I was fasting at work - then the previous Sunday would have been the 9th - and I'm pretty sure the night he asked me was a Sunday. But you know, it really doesn't matter - I do remember the day we decided to indeed get married was Bastille Day! Another reason to keep a detailed journal!
The Anniversary Posts will be enjoying a brief two-week hiatus while I tend to the Fillmores of Lake Oswego - but we will certainly "stay tuned" and keep you informed of all current happenings there!
Today's Quiz - When was the above picture taken? I loved that dress - I wonder why in the world I didn't keep it?? (There are no pictures of us together the day we got engaged - in fact you've seen all the pics from 1967-69, so that's a clue to the answer on this one - I think it's one I haven't posted before.)
It was a Sunday night - we'd been together all day - and we were talking and I was kind of getting side-tracked and thinking "Gee, I hope he asks me out for next weekend" and then I realized his last words had been "So, that's why I think we ought to get married."
We felt we should fast and pray about it - to be sure we weren't "answering our own prayers" and we'd go out Friday and see what the answer was. This is pretty funny, but when he called on Wednesday night to confirm when he'd pick me up on Friday, he didn't say anything about the proposal. So I thought, "Maybe I just imagined it."
On Friday, he came and we drove to Hollywood - we were going to a Margot Fonteyn/Rudolf Nureyev program at the Bowl - and he still didn't say anything. So I thought, "Well, I'm not going to be the first one who says something."
So he said, "Well, so what do you think?" And I said, "About what?" (Can you believe me? Don't answer that!)
And now I'm thinking if it was a Friday - and I'm pretty sure it was because I was fasting at work - then the previous Sunday would have been the 9th - and I'm pretty sure the night he asked me was a Sunday. But you know, it really doesn't matter - I do remember the day we decided to indeed get married was Bastille Day! Another reason to keep a detailed journal!
The Anniversary Posts will be enjoying a brief two-week hiatus while I tend to the Fillmores of Lake Oswego - but we will certainly "stay tuned" and keep you informed of all current happenings there!
Today's Quiz - When was the above picture taken? I loved that dress - I wonder why in the world I didn't keep it?? (There are no pictures of us together the day we got engaged - in fact you've seen all the pics from 1967-69, so that's a clue to the answer on this one - I think it's one I haven't posted before.)
5 comments:
Definitely 80s. Ummmmmm, 1984.
By the way, I guessed that before I looked at the filename of the picture! which gives away the correct date. (I was wrong.)
I was thinking about your anniversary engagement when I woke up this morning, but you beat me to blogging about it. No surprise there!
Aren't you glad you get to spend it with us?
that pic was taken at dad's 20th h.s. reunion i believe - 1983 - wasn't eliza a baby? I thought you took her with you.
i remember babysitting.
and i loved that dress too - bummer you don't still have it - i would've loved to have it with a nursing baby.
one scary note - you guys are about my age in that pic - hmmmmm.
That should be scary! Just makes me wonder about the next 24 years, and how fast they will go by, and just whether, ahem, certain people will be able, even, to sit up straight for a photo.
Bonny's close - it was Dad's 20th reunion, but I was barely pregnant with Eliza - Bonny tended Eliza when she was 4 days old for Leslie's wedding and when she was a week or two old for my 20 year reunion.
And I remember why I don't have the dress - it was Donna's - and she let me borrow it!!
Maybe Donna still has it??
And maybe you'll be the one stooping then, hpt!!
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