Kevin

Hey all,

I just changed my plan for my cell phone so now I can receive text message which includes aol instant messenger(AIM) and (short) emails on my cell phone.  My screen name for AIM is kevinjer21 and I will have the icon   next to my name when I am logged on.  To send me a page or email the address is 5035449540@tmomail.net  If I don't get back soon that means I am at work or some place where my phone is in the silent mode.    Just thought I was pass this info along!

TTFN

Kevin

Amino

Looks borderline, so probably not tommorrow, but maybe Friday or early next week.  I will know tonight for sure. 

Love, Kimberly

Hi Neighbors:

Just a note to let you know we arrived Sunday evening. We went to work Monday morning at 8 a.m. We have 7 days to receive training. Normally, the new office personnel have 4 weeks.

We are in temporary housing in Plano until next weekend.

We sure are busy.

We will check out Kirsten when we get moved and get a telephone.

Thank you for watching our home.

    Russ and Colleen

Hi from Texas!

We've been freezing down here. It has been raining ice. It immobilized everything. The roads were like ice ponds. We walked on top of frozen rain. It was weird.

We are learning so much. I cannot believe all the office work it takes to run a mission. I think we'll be ready to retire in a year. We spoke at the transfer meeting today. It was really neat. We had missionaries in our office all day. Transfers really are an exciting time.

Russ will be doing lots of driving and taking care of the vehicles.

When we left Nephi we didn't realize our Times News would not be sent. Will you let me know how much it will cost for a year to have it sent here?

The post office does not forward newspapers or magazines.

Hello to everyone. We share your funnies with anyone with a listening ear.

Thank you.

Russ and Colleen

Helen

Dearest family- hope all is well-the snow is and has been so wonderful. Our family christmas day is going to be on Saturday the 26th of July at the Holladay South Stake Pavillion and ball park-where we had it last year. I want to send and e-mail to each family  so they can get it on their calendars. I don't think I have all the current e-mail addresses. Will you please within  this next week e-mail me each of your childrens' e-mail addresses-I will then get them notified immediately.

Have a very special week and know I love you much. Love to you-Helen

Re: Pictures of

Melanie wrote: In the picture of you, Great-grandma and Menetta, is Menetta the one in the back, standing. I am positive she is, but just wanted to double check. Who

is Toni? I seem to have a memory lapse on this individual.

Melanie

Myrna Trauntvein wrote:

Yes, Melanie, that is Aunt Menetta. She had an artifical leg. Toni is the cute little
baby. She belongs to Aunt Jessie's daughter, the lady I call Aunt Betty. (Not really an aunt at all.) Toni married a Disney artist and had twins but I guess they are divorced because in her letter at Thanksgiving time, which I haven't replied to yet, she said Toni was living in Oregon in the same town. It just sounded like they were divorced.

Love, Mom

I'm going to live!

On Friday, February 21, 2003 10:05 AM, Myrna Trauntvein <mandlht@sisna.com> wrote:

I actually think I am going to make it! I have had a bad past week. I had the good old stomach flu--the kind where you can't leave the bathroom. I missed going to the temple and to church. I was beginning to feel better by Tuesday but I was weak. I'd walk to the top of the stairs and have to sit down. Now I feel fine except when I sit down.

The upshot of my physical was that I have an underactive thyrold, my cholesterol count was 309 (the bad was bad and the good was bad), and I have an 8 degree curve of the upper spine to the right and an 8 degree curve of the lower spine to the left (called an "S" curve) so, yes, I do have scoliosis. However, it looks as though mine was caused by the fall I took down the stairs before I married. (That is good news for my granddaughters.) My bone density has continued to improve and I am now well above the fracture level. When I have the old lady hump on my back it won't be because I don't have good bones it will be because I fell down the stairs and fractured everything.

I now take so much medication that I no longer have to eat--I just take pills (hiatal hernia, thyriod, cholesterol, anti-blood clot, and bones). I get my exercise opening bottles. I should soon be in good shape--pills for food and plenty of exercise!

Lots of love, M

LHT: HIP HIP HURRAY 1,000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ECT----------RAN OUT OF TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leonard Trauntvein

Baby Update

My amnio is scheduled for Tues. March 4th at 11:30am  They will know that night or by Wed. morining when they will induce.  I am currently 80% and at a 2.  Dr. Joseph says I won't make it to the 4th and Tracey (midwife)  says "don't count on it."  I am not counting on it, as I was at a 4-6 full-term with Dane and not in labor.  

However, more than likely we will have our baby girl sometime that first week of March.

Love, Kimberly

More about dress

Mom,

I can view the picture Siovhan sent of her dress, but when I try to save it to a format you can view, it destroys the file format.  Maybe Todd would know some tricks I don't.  Sorry.  I thought I'd be able to save to a format you could use, but it's not working.  Sorry it's been so long.  I haven't logged on for a while.

Love,
Kirsten

I'm Glad

I am glad the testing went well. I loved the humor. I don't know if I could have watched Howard's testing. He would be afraid that I would try to blame all of his bad food choices on the polyps that he had to have removed. I don't think I could have watched the removal of them, either.

I am glad that you were able to sleep. It is sad that sometimes the only sleep that we as mothers get, is the sleep that comes from anesthesia. I know that you have been tired, and I don't think that the extra few hours hurt you any, in fact they probably did more help than harm. Remember that I have a very hard time coming out of the anesthesia? I think we know that it comes from somewhere in your line. I have heard that male hormone has a key to helping people come out of anesthesia better, but Ben is like you and I, so I don't know if I would give to much credence to that logic.


The dog was tested for Addison's disease yesterday, but miraculously he doesn't have it. Addison's disease is the same in humans as it is in animals. It is a malfunction of the adrenal glands. It does have to do with the thyroid, in some cases, but mainly the pituitary gland is the one that malfunctions. They would have put him on a corticoid steroid for the rest of his life. It was very expensive. I did a lot of praying that he wouldn't be ill like that. I have to keep him in the kitchen where it is warm and where I can watch him. So far, it has been okay. He didn't howl all night long, like he has done in the past. He just has been like a big baby. He seems to take to me, I don't know why, but he is like my shadow.

I will talk with you later. I hope that your week goes better than last week.

Love, Melanie