A Golden Week!

A week full of tender mercies of the Lord and love from our family and friends.

Thank you for all your comments, love, and emails during our Anniversary week. Who would have thought 50 years ago that we would be celebrating in Nauvoo?! We loved hearing from all 28 grandchildren, and our children the same day. Over 50 letters and cards filled our mail box!

We made potato salad, chicken salad, and fruit salad for 75 of our workers on our Temple shift. It was much easier than preparing for our wedding day! But my mom and grandma weren't there to do most of the work.

We still work in the Temple every day in spite of all the photos that make it appear like we just eat and sight see.

A Real Family Tree with Cluff's from 3 branches of the David Cluff Trunk. They're planning the 2019 Reunion in Nauvoo.

Our next Lego project I guess.

We spread our 50th celebrations out for a week with a family dinner and gold pedals from my sister to set the mood. We're still waiting for the gold doubloons Michele!

Anniversary lunch at Angelini's. Quite yummy and fun with Becky & friends from Oregon.

We enjoyed sharing the Carthage jail with Becky and her 3 friends in town this week.

PO Box 310 was full of greetings from over 50 friends and family! So fun to hear from loved ones. We need a selfie stick!

Gold for the Golden.  That's a genuine rose plated with 24K

26 August 50 years later still at the Temple but with Becky, another sister in law, to help us celebrate. We loved doing some sealings for family names in the Temple.

Older brother Devar & his Becky
 after their Rendezvous performance

Time is speeding up with only 8 weeks left for our mission! The summer crowds have thinned but the mosquitoes are still biting and the sunsets are still beautiful.

10 ft. high corn and  barely the barn roof shows. Nearing the end of the season for the bio corn, fodder corn, and only a little sweet corn remains.