Lavish Italian Five-Course Celebration Banquet for 65 and 70 years
Mangiando e parlando
February 8, 2011
The Celebrated Ones--young as always!
Ah, time disappears on me and the exigencies of keeping a blog up to date are almost too much. So forgive the tardiness, but enjoy this feast of family, photos of the five-course Italian banquet that our adult kids lavished us with on January 2 (our traditional Adult Extended Family Gift Exchange) now combined with birthday celebrations. It was worth waiting from Yvonne’s 65th in October and my 70th in November.
There were fantastic surprises
Seemingly countless ANTIPASTI
PRIMI: Fettucine con asparago e prosciutto
Seven of us with Cliff taking photo
CONTORNI: Insalata di arugula con formaggio parmigiano e limone
The table set before us
A setting of sheer beauty
More ANTIPASTI
Cliff the pasta-from-scratch maker
Scranton and David post meal gifts
DOLCE: Pere al vino rojo
And a few photos of the family groupings and grandchildren.
The Six Piccoli--and praying for more (Speight and Sohren in top center), Bronwyn on right, Cormac on back left, Skye and Brendan up front
Six adults: Left to right: Cliff, Christine, Scranton, Stephanie, Phaedra, David
Four young women of my life: Yvonne, Phaedra, Christine, Stephanie
Cliff with a load of gifts for each of the men, Yvonne's beautiful Guatemala wrapping
Bill to Yvonne--a very old Anglican Book of Common Prayer
A table set for celebration
Loved the pictures and comments. Thank you for posting them and letting us know. I did not know about your blog but now I will try to follow you. I guess I have been following you in a different way ( = for many years.
Awesome! Wonderful celebration with some very thoughtful kids!
Forgive this SO late reply but I just discovered those notes!! Bill
Bless you, very special friend. Only tonight did I find a batch of messages sent to the blog. We are partners in much, but in particular, the Pilgrimage.
Bill