John & Mary Jane's 40th Anniversary Party

This past Saturday we made a day trip to Lebanon, IL for Tim's great aunt and uncle's 40th wedding anniversary. Tim spent a lot of time with the Dietz family out on the farm growing up and also took advantage of Mary Jane's cooking as well from the stories I hear!


Here is the cake - you can imagine how the girls enjoyed the frosting!

Here is Tim with his Great Aunt Mary Jane.



Yes, our little bartender. Don't worry, she was just pouring, not drinking, but got a little obsessed with wanting to fill everyone's beer. Tim's uncle put a tip jar out for her and by the end of the night she had over $20! When the keg ran out she started wiping off people's beer from the coolers and delivering them to their tables. She didn't want to leave and clung to her tip jar. In all fairness she did try to give the money to Tim's cousins who were hosting the reception, but they refused. Then Tim made her pay $2 to a girl that Abby had "employed" to help for about 10 minutes, but her Mom made her give it back to Abby. So the tip jar came home, but we convinced Abby to give some of it to church as she enjoys putting the weekly envelope in the offering. She gladly gave up some of her money, however informed us she will be buying a Barbie movie with the rest.


Megan enjoying the cake as usual.

John and Mary Jane enjoying their first dance again.

Abby and Megan enjoying the first dance as well. You can only imagine the running around and dancing they did. They were quite popular on the dance floor.

This is Sherry and Mike who are John and Mary Jane's kids. They hosted the lovely event.

This weekend is St. Pat's at our house. We did a lot of prepping for things this week with some cooking in advance but there still is a lot to accomplish, just to clean it all up again on Sunday. We are expecting 10 adults, 7 kids, and 4 dogs to be at the house over the weekend - wish us luck!