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| Ann & Frank's actual anniversary was on Sept. 30th. |
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| The celebration was started at The Mandarin. |
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| There were 25 in our party. |
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| Ann, with the help of Leah & Esther made name tags for everyone. |
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| Blowing out the candle. |
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| As with any celebration comes the tinkling of glasses and a 'kissy'. |
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| Herman had everyone sing 'Happy Anniversary to you'. |
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| Back at the home of Ann & Frank, it was time for pictures. |
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| Ann & Frank with their children and grandchildren. |
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| Frank's niece and brother in law. Margreet & Herman. |
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| Photographer and son-in-law Bob. |
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| Claudine, Franklin, Ann, Frank & Susanne. |
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| What a good looking group! |
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| The grandchildren were enjoying the sunshine. |
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| Co, Franklin, Ewa & Margreet. Co & Margreet are mother and daughter. They came from Holland as a surprise for Ann & Frank. |
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| Frank & Ann, Carla & Ken, and Marcel & Alida. |
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| Frank & Ann with friends Jan & Ym. |
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| Esther doing the happy dance. |
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| Leah also joining in. |
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| A picture with Frank's siblings. Harriet and August from Edmonton. Co from Holland & Betty & Herman from Calgary. |
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| Same group, but with Margreet. Also from Holland. |
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| Fred, Esther, Susanne & Leah. I missed getting pictures of Franklin & Claudine and their families. |
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| Cute flower growing out of my head... |
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| Frank's siblings. Betty, Co and August. |
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| Snuggling with their baby brother. Carla, Marcel and Ann. |
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| Gorgeous arrangements and bouquets everywhere. |
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| Franklin made a toast of champagne to his mom and dad. |
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| Reminiscing with Ann & Frank's wedding album. |
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| 50 years ago. |
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| They both still look fantastic. |
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| Herman and Betty came across the poems from Ann & Frank's wedding when they were going through things in their home in Calgary. The Dutch prose was scripted by Frank's dad and shared at Ann & Frank's wedding. Herman translated the poems into English. It sounded like a multi-step process: taking Dutch poetry into Dutch regular text, then translating the regular text into English, then creating a poem in English from that. The most amazing thing was that August commented that he could hear their father’s voice in the English. Herman did a fantastic job. |
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| Herman sharing in the poetry reading. |
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| Co read something she had written just for this occasion. She mentioned the times that they had visited in Canada and the times that Ann & Frank had visited in Holland. She gave them a collection of photos from when she and Frank were very young. |
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| Sisters-in-law: Ewa & Susanne. |
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| Margreet spoke about the 6 times she had come to Canada and visited with the family. She also gave a collection of photos – one from each of those 6 visits. |
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| Ann & Frank seem to thoroughly enjoy themselves. |
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| Cousins, Adam and Andrew. |
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| Ann & Franks's grandchildren William, Adam, Andrew, Esther & Leah. |
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| A computer generated photo book is a gift from their children. They worked together as siblings to gather photos from Ann & Frank's photo albums and their own collections. Claudine wrote the text of the story line then Susanne put text and photos together in the book. The 50th anniversary celebration will also be added before it gets printed. |
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| This gift they will always treasure. |
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| Carla looking at the wedding album. |
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| A hug for her mom. Esther and Susanne. |
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| They did an absolutely fabulous job in serving us all drinks and food. Never sat down for a break. The whole day was a huge success. Lots and lots of planning. Thanks sooo much. Love you all |
Dear Alida, Dank je wel voor het delen van de foto’s. Een mooi aandenken voor Frank en Ans. Ik weet dat mijn moeder er graag bij had willen zijn… Leuke foto’s. Zeker die van de zusjes met hun kleine broertje. Betrapt op de trap! Wil je de hartelijke groeten doen aan Marcel.Dikke knuffel Ans x
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful pictures Alida. Thank you soooooo much. Time goes too fast. We are all getting older. I also have a picture here from the wedding. I was bridesmaid, and auntie Anne made the dress for me. I still have it hanging here!
ReplyDeleteI hope to meet you all some day! In Canada of course.
Love Margaret
Hi, Alida and Marcel,
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for putting this special 50th Anniversary Blog together from your presence here on Saturday October 1.
With our thanks for a photographic job well done. Just great.
Ann and Frank
LIEVE MARCEL EN ALIDA. HEEEEEL VEEL DANK VOOR DE PRACHTIGE EN DUIDELIJKE FOTO’S VAN DE TROUWDAG VAN ANS EN FRANK EN OOK VAN JULLIE UITJE.HET IS HEEEL LEUK OM DE ANDERE FAM. LEDEN TE ZIEN ZOALS DE GUILLAUMS EN OOK ANS EN FRANK HUN KINDEREN EN KLEINKINDEREN EN OOK DE NICHT VAN FRANK.ZE HEBBEN OOK EEN FIJN GEZIN.WAT LIJKT FRANKLIN OP OPA HOOGSTAD!!!EN WAT EEN KRULLEBOLLEN HÉ.
ReplyDeleteThank you Auntie Alida for this great blog post. You put the story together well. And it's fantastic that relatives who weren't there can see it too.
ReplyDeleteI think Leah and Esther were doing jumping jacks to keep warm rather than a happy dance. However, they were indeed happy that day! Thanks for capturing the kids' activities - we didn't have much chance to hang out with them that day. Our hands were full as you had written, also with keeping Mom out of the kitchen! I'm glad we were successful.
The photo book is ordered - we look forward to seeing the final result.
Thanks for celebrating with us and for posting this great way to remember many details.
Hi Marcel and Alida,
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sending these precious pictures of the adoption of your newest grandson. What a precious little guy who seems to fit right into his home and siblings and with animals and nature close by it is both frightening and very exciting for him I’m sure. The pictures are priceless! It was very wonderful to connect somewhat at Frank and Ann’s 50th. This adds to your stories at the time and we appreciate you thinking to include us when you sent these out. That is almost a month ago already. Time keeps flying on. Love from both of you to you and your precious kids and grandkids.
Hug from Betty and Herman in Calgary