I Don't Know If It Is Claude or Ray

I don’t know if this is Claude or Ray. I cannot tell and it doesn’t say. Myrna

Myrna wrote: 

Donnette, I answered the questions by the question. Myrna

Donnette S. Smith wrote:

Wow! You really did have some pictures of the Mexican Border Volunteers. Thanks a million.

 It is a good thing I wasn't quite ready with Richard's written account of his experiences in WWII. So I hadn't sent them in. I did have Ray and Claude's pictures done on CD but I'll redo them and add these.

D: 1. Do you have any idea which is Ray on Fort Front? Is he in back on the right? 
M: Yes, I think that is him.

D: 2. On Cavalry Again is Ray there? I wonder if Claude could be at left. Can you read the date on the postmark? I think that is Claude but I wasn't certain. 
M: The only part of the date I can make out is the year, 1916.

3. And Smith Mexican Conflict. Could Ray be seated on left? Yes

D: 4. On Fort Back it says: "Fort Kumehameha, H.T. 3rd Co." Were they in Hawaii Territory? 
M: No, I think it was an Indian name.

D: 5. On the big one you sent in pieces it seems to say, " "No 7, Utah Cavalry, Nogales, Aug. 6, 1916". Is that what you make out? 
M: Yes.

Thanks, Donnette


Donnette wrote: Also, do you see Claude in any of those pictures you sent?

Donnette

Somebody Said

A dear friend sent this to me. I guess I am at the stage of life where it tugged my heartstrings. So I am sending it on to you I love being a mother and being a grandmother is even better. Thank goodness it is an eternal job. (I have time to get it right?) Myrna

Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after you've had a baby ... somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother,"normal" is history. 

Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct ... somebody never took a three-year-old shopping. 

Somebody said being a mother is boring .. somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a driver's permit. 

Somebody said if you're a "good" mother, your child will "turn out good" somebody thinks a child comes with directions and a guarantee. 

Somebody said "good" mothers never raise their voices ... somebody never came out the back door just in time to see her child hit a golf ball through the neighbor's kitchen window. 

Somebody said you don't need an education to be a mother.... somebody never helped a fourth grader with his math. 

Somebody said you can't love the fifth child as much as you love the first .. somebody doesn't have five children. 

Somebody said a mother can find all the answers to her child-rearing questions in the books.. somebody never had a child stuff beans up his nose or in his ears. 

Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labor and delivery somebody never watched her "baby" get on the bus for the first day of kindergarten ... or on a plane headed for military "boot camp." 

Somebody said a mother can do her job with her eyes closed and one hand tied behind her back ... somebody never organized seven giggling Brownies to sell cookies. 

Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her child gets married...somebody doesn't know that marriage adds a new son or daughter-in-law to a mother's heartstrings (and those precious grandchildren). 

Somebody said a mother's job is done when her last child leaves home....somebody never had grandchildren. 

Somebody said your mother knows you love her, so you don't need to tell her... somebody isn't a mother. 

The Calvary with Claude and Raymond Smith

Myrna said: This is a huge photo. I had to scan it a bit at a time. My cousin, Garth, has the original which the family has kept rolled up. I made this photocopy. Then I had also had a negative professionally made from the original. I can’t seem to put my hands on it. So this is scanned in pieces and then put back together. 

Both Raymond James Smith and his brother, Claude Smith are in the photo.

Donnette wrote: I got one picture of a group of men - couldn't figure who any were. Do you have any list of them? And when and where it was taken? 

Thanks for it anyway.

Myrna said: These are all photos of Raymond and Claude in Mexico during their service

there. All the photos I am sending you are in my grandmother's photos. That is all it says about them.

I thought that you may recognize which man was which. I know them only from photos. I didn't know how many photos of each of them you had seen. I need to get out a magnifying glass, I guess. I'm not certain I can tell even then. There is no writing on the back of the photo.

The Smith boys were good-looking and clean-shaven. I need to compare the faces in zoom mode with their photos and see if I can find them. As we looked at the photos, my children and I, one seemed to think my grandfather is third from the left and is seated. On better inspection, I do not think that it is.

Siovhan Lorelle Bolton

Grammy--

I won't be able to make it to Sunday dinner this week. Grrr. I have to help with the ward Potluck dinner--as the committee for that is under my supervision. I want to come soon though, so I will definitely try to make it down there. I love you and hope you understand. 

Love,
Siovhany


"I like to think of my songs as people, and Love Soon is in drug rehab. He's in there with Ben Affleck and he's a better actor."
                                                    --john mayer--

Myrna wrote: Oh, sure, stand me up for a church potluck. What is next? Grammy is just an old shoe, boo-hoo!

All kidding aside, I am glad you are active in church and have a testimony. It is important. We do love you and will be glad for any time you can come.

Love you, Grammy

Hope

Todd wrote:I wouldn't exactly call me wayward.  Away east-ward is more like it.

Myrna wrote: I wouldn’t call you wayward at all. More like beloved! How is the way eastward? Mom

Donnette Bean/Carr

From Donnette: I sent the Bean/Carr histories and pictures today. I'm going to fix the CD for the war pictures of Claude, Ray and Richard tomorrow. I need the signed release on Ray to send those in. Hope you enjoy the new pictures and histories. (The Smith histories are on it,too. but you already have those. Donnette

Myrna wrote: Forgive me. I have been really busy with a houseful of grandkids this week. I am changing two diapers on two little guys and chasing around with my mind
gone. Love, Myrna

Bean Family

I sent the Bean/Carr histories and pictures today. I'm going to fix the CD for the war pictures of Claude, Ray and Richard tomorrow. I need the signed release on Ray to send those in.

Hope you enjoy the new pictures and histories. (The Smith histories are on it,too. but you already have those.

Donnette

TB Test for Donovin and Erin

Barb Anderson wrote:

Did Bree call you to get the kids tested?  Because she had an active case of TB, I guess everything is up in the air.  What else could possibly happen, the kids are sick????  I really don’t think so, but who knows. Please let me know.

Barbara


Myrna wrote: We took them for the test at our county health department. It takes 48 hours for it to show. The babies, or anyone else, have to go to the same place to have the TB analysis as the place that gave the test. It will not be certain until 12 noon on Friday. Of course, if it starts to puff up, I guess we will have an idea.

They seem well. Wouldn’t they have some sort of symptoms? Back to the internet to check that out.

Love, Myrna

Last Night

Melanie wrote: Went to the Temple last night with a bunch of youth. I sure hope that I was more reverent than some of our youth. They have us wait in the chapel while others are doing the work, then cycle them through. They can get really rowdy. Braden is always good, but he gets ostracized because of it. I wish that boys would allow boys to be good without making them feel like they are weird because they are good. It annoys me. It was a good night. We have over thirty young women, and most of them were in attendance. I was a little upset that my Laurels weren't there, but then two of them showed up later. They had gotten stuck in traffic. It gets pretty bad on some nights. We were in traffic for two hours in December, just because of Christmas time shoppers. It normally take me about 45 minutes to get to the temple from my house. 

The assistant to the President spoke to us last night. He talked of symbols in the temple and in our religion. It was lost on some of the younger ones, but the adults and some of the older ones got it.

Mikaela is home for the morning. She has to go in for a sonogram. She is having problems with lactose intolerance and they just want to make sure that the stomach aches she is having aren't related to anything else. She also has to see a gastroenterologist next Thursday. They will have her drink milk and then breathe into a mask. The mask will trap the gases from her breath, and from that they will be able to tell if she is lactose intolerant. That is a big step from having to save all her bms and take them to the lab within twenty minutes, to have them do testing. I like the new technology! I will keep you informed when I get the test results.

Talk with you later. 

Melanie


Myrna wrote: I guess you know that Julie told us about our little princess, Mikaela, and we are praying for her. We love you all very much. If I lived in town I would try to help. Of course, you are like AnnMarie and Julie and you would probably just do it yourself anyway.

Hang in there!

Love, Mom