Happy Anniversary to Us & a CASology Challenge

Today is our 40th anniversary. Last night we both agreed it surely hasn’t felt like 40 years—we can’t be THAT old! But it is, nonetheless, and we’ve had our big anniversary trip already. But we didn’t want the day to pass without marking it in some way, so a bit later we’re off to Seneca Lake with our good friends, Bob and Cathy. We have two wineries to check out, and a farmer’s market I want to explore. Then we’ll have dinner at Suzanne’s Fine Cuisine, a restaurant highly recommended by friends and in the book, Summer in a Glass, which we both finished reading this month.

I thought I’d post this card tonight with a few photos of our day, but I want to link it up to the CASology challenge for this week, and the link closes before we’ll get home. I recently discovered this challenge on Cassandra’s blog, but haven’t had much time to play along this month.*

I cased the design for this card from Nora on A Creative Touch. The woodgrain cardstock and the chipboard hearts both came from a Simon Says Card Kit. The die is also Simon Says, and the sentiment is from Papertrey Ink’s “Live Love Life.” The gold paper I’ve had in my stash for years. (The store where I bought it closed at least 10 years ago.) I love it, and this is the last piece of it.

The inside sentiment (I forgot to photograph it before I wrote a note inside) reads: “A good life is a collection of happy moments,” and we’ve had 40 wonderful years of happy moments together. There’s no one I’d rather spend time with! I’ll be back tomorrow, hopefully with a few shots of a day in the Finger Lakes (though it’s a bit drizzly now), and a 52/50 update.

*Great update on our friend, Mike! He was released from the ICU Friday night, and is walking around the nursing station, eating real food, and joking with us all. He’s still very tired, and will need some weeks of rehab, but a complete recovery is within reach! Thanks again for all your thoughts and prayers.