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Almost 70 years ago Clyda and Veon were married. That union is why we are all here. This blog is created to capture our thoughts and help us get to know each other better. There will be a new question posted each Sunday until December. Please use contributors first names only. If you are posting anonymously please add your first name to the text. Enjoy!
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Attention everyone...Marilyn has a WEB PAGE !! You can check it out at www.marilynsmithartist.com!
Nicole, please publish the following disclaimer in a prominent place:
I hesitated to make long narratives with these posts, but Nicole said she might put the whole blog thing into a book form someday, and I could use this as a forum for writing for my kids and grandkids. I can’t pass up an opportunity like that. So rather than bore you, feel free to skip anything you’re not interested in or don’t want to be bothered to read. Sonja
Note from Nicole:
I am happy to do this for anybody that is interested. I am enjoying hearing from each of you and would love to hear from more. Thanks Sonja for taking the time to work on this and giving us an opportunity to get to know you better.
Kids from Lt to Rt:Marilyn, Barbara, Veon Jr., Gladys, Gerald, Evan. Clyda and Veon in the Middle.
Sonja
Ve's Wife
Nicole
Glady's Youngest
Marilyn
The Youngest Daughter
Evan
"The Baby"
Daphne
Glady's Oldest
Clyda
4 comments:
When I graduated from high school Grandma and I flew to Salt Lake for Daphne's gradutaion for the U and her mission farwell. I was really excited to go to SL because I was planning to move there at the end of summer so I saw it with different eyes than I had ever before. Plus I was really excited to see Daph and of course I was a proud little sis...
My most memorable trip was the summer that Marilyn and Bill rented a beach house in Lincoln City and we all gathered there for what seemed like weeks. We played lots of games, spent a lot of time at the beach, got to know the town, had lots of "cousin bonding" time . . . The sun even came out for a few hours, which is almost unheard of at the Oregon Coast.
We didn’t take vacations when I was a kid. We didn’t have the money for vacations. But every three or four years Daddy would come to Utah for a Nickle family reunion. I remember coming out for a couple of those.
What we did instead was have family home evening, way back before the church did it wholesale. Actually, it had been instituted many years ago, sometime in the 40's, but most people didn’t observe it. But we held it faithfully. My sisters’ friends knew not to call on the night we had it because we didn’t answer the phone. (Not sure which night it was). We usually had a lesson at home, but sometimes we would go to the river and play. Mother would pack a picnic and we usually had a watermelon which we would cool in an eddy in the river. I don’t remember what we played, but it was fun to have Daddy not working or doing church visiting and just being with us. Sonja
We saved for a year to take the children to Disneyland. We went during the Christmas holidays. Being with the children and seeing them enjoy it so much made it memorable. When we came back, we stopped in Arizona and spent New Year's with the Leroy Wright family who had children the same age and had moved there from Salt Lake.
Clyda
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