Happy 40th Wedding Anniversary

This past weekend in addition to Father's Day we celebrated my parent's 40th wedding anniversary.  All of the Papke family made it home for the weekend which made it extra special.  My girls smothered their poor cousin Kitty with love the whole time.  They just can't get enough of her.

Saturday evening we had the big celebration.  We made 6 different homemade pizzas that my brother Tony and his wife Colleen brought ingredients for.  It was a lot of pizza, but it was so good that there was hardly any left.  Trader Joe's knows dough!  Then we gave them their gift.  Colleen had found an idea for doing memory envelopes from family and friends.  So we had contacted a number of family and friends in April to conjure up 40 memories and Tony and Colleen organized them in envelopes.  It was great reading all of them, especially when photos were involved from the 70s.  We laughed and cried through them all and my parents were surprised and touched by everyone who wrote in to them and the memories they provided.  It was a great evening and weekend had by all.

Happy 40th Mom & Dad!

The 4th Tooth Bites the Dust

This weekend we headed to IL for the wedding of Mike Dietz and Julie Flannigan.  At the wedding reception Abby came over with a tooth in her hand.  She had pulled it out (or wiggled it with her tongue) all by herself.  There was no crying, screaming, or drama from the first 3 teeth - of course it didn't have Tim pulling it out either, maybe that's a factor too.  So the tooth fairy had to find us in IL at our hotel that Saturday night, which they did of course.  And as Megan says; "Now you have two holes in your mouth."

So the bottom 4 have all been lost, and Abby informed us that there are no loose teeth on the top yet.  Megan is starting to get on board with the idea of losing teeth, but Abby has informed her that she can't lose any until she is 5.

We also had a swimming milestone as well this weekend.  Abby has been working on swimming without her life jacket and at the hotel pool she swam from the shallow to deep end all by herself, multiple times.  We really need to get her into some swim lessons this summer.  Megan on the other hand still sinks like a rock, but is fearless to keep trying no matter what.