Happy 50th Anniversary!


Dear Mom and Dad,

We've spent many hours going through boxes, drawers, albums, envelopes, and files full of 50 years of photos, and have thoroughly enjoyed seeing these captured moments of your life together. Some we hadn't seen before, some made us laugh, some made us tear up, and some took our breath away. We hope you will enjoy experiencing them again in this way too. And, we hope you don't mind that we've shared these few glimpses of your amazing life with your closest friends and family so they can help you celebrate how blessed you truly are to have the privilege of 50 years of marriage.

You have been such a wonderful example of marriage. We've seen you live out "for better--for worse, for richer--for poorer, in sickness and in health.” We’ve watched you love and cherish each other while raising us, running a company, making your house a home, both battling and beating cancer, changing careers, caring for loved ones, retiring, grandparenting, and creating a life-list longer than we can type out or include in this space. We know that marriage is not all fairy tales, and we are grateful that you have worked hard at it and kept your pledge of faith to each other. You’ve done it beautifully, with the help of the Lord.

We are celebrating with you! Congratulations!!! 50 years of marriage is a badge of honor you deserve, and it comes with more blessings than can be counted. We love you.

- Taryn and Travis

Family Vacations

Wonderful memories of vacations around the country...

(Dave likes to take scenic pictures, so there aren't as many of people enjoying vacations as one might expect!  For example, Taryn went through 23 rolls of pictures of Dave and Vonda's 1983 trip to Hawaii, and found 3 photos with Dave or Vonda in them! But if you want to know what Hawaii looked like in 1983, Dave took some beautiful shots!) 

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Honeoye Falls, New York - March 1971



Camping - 1972




visiting Mark and Marcia

1972


Rochester, NY - 1972


camping at Allegheny State Park - 1972







Finger Lakes 1972





Hawaii 1983




Turkey Run State Park 1985
Travis skipping rocks

Always a camera around Dave's neck!

Chain O' Lakes State Park 1981



The whole family remembers staying in "Oak 2!"



Turkey Run State Park 1985





A ride on the Wabash Cannonball train - 1984




Disney World





Riding on the Rambeaux's boat - January 1986

Sea World


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Camping in Michigan - 1987











Hawaii 1992







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Dillon, Colorado - 1996









Very friendly mountain goats!!




Tennessee 1997









Colorado 2001
















Alton and Grafton, Illinois - July 2002

watching fireworks on the 4th




Fort Wayne Botanical Gardens





Taryn and Travis remember Dave teaching them about lichens many times when they were growing up, and they still love to tease him about it!





Lunch in Fort Wayne








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