2 sons
3 daughters
6 granddaughters
6 houses
4 states
6 cats
1 dog (for about 6 months)
2 sons served 2 year missions and a 2 year service mission of their own
3 sets of braces
15 super awesome years of waking kids up at 5am to get ready for early morning seminary (mom)
13 associate degrees, 9 bachelor degrees, 1 beauty school graduate, 1 MBA, and soon 1 Doctor of Optometry. (This tally includes Mom and Dad's education as they graduated within this 40yrs. Also included are all the son/daughter inlaws, most of whom were apart of the family before they graduated.)
Always delicious family dinners at home but we all remember our night out at The Rheinlander or our infamous tuna on toast Christmas Dinner when the ham was still half frozen.
Countless gray hairs, late nights, and pep talks
Lots of skiing, running, walking, and sewing
A bunch of adventures around the globe
A hundred root beer floats (make that several hundred!)
A thousand track meets, tennis matches, dance recitals, cheer-leading, student government, choir recitals, t-ball games, boy scout camp outs, bicycle road races, spelling tests, book reports, and more!
A million gallons of milk
A billion frequent flier miles (dad)
One successful career in fatherhood and pharmaceutical sales
One successful career in motherhood and homemaking
and
40 years of marriage
I guess you could say every day of those 40 years were well earned!
We all love you Mom and Dad!
Congratulations on your 40th wedding anniversary.
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4 comments:
geez jana, how long did it take you to think of all this? i want to cry...so sweet...can't believe mom and dad have lived through all that. i love dad's prison shirt in the last picture.
congratulations mom and dad for making it 40 long years. we love you...and i think mom should cut her hair like the last picture.
What happened to vimeo.And have you changed the format here today?
No change in format, but you might not realize that you're not on my family blog.
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