Clovis, New Mexico

 Went to Clovis, New Mexico for the day for the funeral of a close Shaeffer family friend.

The Mitchell's are the family I've heard about the most from Clovis and Dan's childhood.

Mark and Dan were good friends -- his only other LDS friend in his area.

Mark's dad, Mike, passed away. He and EC are birthday twins -- same day and year. I loved hearing stories of how they pranked each other year after year on that day.

From ads in the newspaper to a box of puppies as a gift.

The planned Mike's celebration on his birthday, even though he died in December.

When I sent these pictures to the kids, I asked Chris if Kansas was this flat.

He said it was.

Michael commented it looked like Chris' mission halftime haircut!

(Remember the blonde buzz?! Ha!)

A wonderful day with Dan, Duncan and Kristin.

Of course the brothers were thoroughly entertained watching plane traffic on the 

special computer program the whole flight there and back.

The celebration of life was beautiful and fun because Mike and his boys are so funny and were always full of mischief. Makes for great stories to share. Plus he had a sweet spiritual side and was very loving which left a significant impression and impact on his kids and grandkids.

So fun to drive around Clovis and drive past their old houses.

(Not all 17 of them, but the Colonial Park ones!)

We drove down Main Street and to be honest, there were quite a few antique shops I would have loved to spend time in. That's not really my thing, mainly because Salt Lake's are either very expensive or completely picked over. But there was some cute stuff in these window.