Happy 40th!

Peter's parents celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary this last week - woo-hoo!  All 4 kids, 3 spouses, and a bunch of friends and family celebrated together at an open house party a their church Sunday afternoon.

One of my contributions was decorating and arranging photos for the big day. It was pretty fun to look through old snapshots of Tom and Karen from 20, 30, 40+ years ago and arrange them for others to look at. Whenever I look at old family photos, I am always struck by how similar people look at various ages. Like one shot we displayed of Karen and Tom when they were in their twenties - she was laughing, holding a can of soda, with Tom being mischievous behind her - that could be them today! And it looked just like any young couple today would, on a camping trip, being goofy  and having fun. Looking at them on their wedding day also reminded e of how fast time does move, and how we never know what the future's specific will look like til we get there. They are so young, so ready for anything in their old photos! Then marriage happens in the midst of real life, and you work at things, learn things, get better and worse at things - and, poof! 40 years have gone by. It reminds me of a quote - "No one is made overnight; our real lives are a lifetime of choices in the making."   

It is also always fun to see the extended family and friends in Michigan - Eva even made some new friends (including Jackson, who was such a great sport/older playmate!)

Congrats again to Tom and Karen on 40 years of family, faith, struggles and joys; what a fun day we had celebrating you! (This is one of my favorite shots - it is after feeding each other cake. Hee hee.) 

PS - VerHage family, my photos from the weekend are now on smugmug, fyi. If you have other pics I would love to see them sometime!