April and Ranier celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on December 18th of 2020. They had originally planned to take everyone on a cruise over Christmas Break. Of course corona made sure that didn't happen. But what to do instead...??? Well, everyone decided we could pull off a surprise party and we did!! They had no idea!! Everyone from out west flew in to be there. Only a handful of grandkids weren't in attendance (Calvin & Emily are stuck in New Zealand until he finishes his internship and Aidan and Anna are on missions.) It was a fun and exciting surprise. We arranged for them to have a night at a hotel the night before. We held the event at Wild Florida and had BBQ catered by 4Rivers. We had a wedding cake for them, a soda bar, a slide show, a special book made and then shared memories of them through the years and ended the night with some music and dancing. It was so fun. Eva shot the surprise and some nice family pictures for them. Here are the ones I snapped (and a few that Ivy snapped... she's so cute with a few of her cuzzies).
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