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!