We're starting a family blog!

Who is this cute little girl?

It's NOT a girl! This is your grandpa (or) great grandpa, Alonzo Smith Pond.

Here he is again at the front door of his grandparent’s home in Salt Lake City, Utah.  If you head north on West Temple (to the west side of the conference center) and don’t turn, you will run into this house, which is still standing.  Check it out sometime you are by Temple Square.

Here is your grandmother (or) great grandmother, Bernice Pond.  Wasn’t she a cute toddler?

So why have we decided to start a blog?  This blog is for all the descendants of Smith and Bernice Pond.  Smith died in 1959, so the only family members still around who remember him are Doug, Virginia, and Donna.  Bernice died in 1981, so there aren’t very many family members who remember her either.  They never had the opportunity to share their stories with their grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great, great grandchildren, of whom there are currently (counting spouses) 106 family members.  So if you would like to know more about the people you came from, keep watch on this blog.  Please share it with family members who don’t have e-mail addresses and send us any e-mail addresses we are missing. Please feel free to add your comments and stories.

Why is the blog called “Puddles in the Pond”?  Smith organized a workshop each summer for the last years of his life to teach secondary teachers how to teach economics in their classrooms. (This is a picture of some of the workshop leaders.  Smith is on the left.) 

One evening at each of these workshops, the whole family was invited to dinner.  Doug, Virginia, and Donna were called “Puddles”.  The name stuck, and they were often called “Puddles” after that. Thus the name for our blog. 

 

If you visit the blog (at www.puddlesinthepond.blogspot.com) we've explained the blog name this way in the header. "Many little puddles come together to make a Pond. These are the stories and pictures of the Alonzo Smith and Afton Bernice Pond Family. Each one of us is a Puddle in the Pond." We, Donna Kitchen and Kate Wheeler, will be e-mailing you posts from the blog, but please feel free to follow the actual blog.  Link provided above 

What did the young family of Smith and Bernice look like?  Here they are with Doug about 12 years, old, Virginia about 7 years old and Donna about 5 years old.

IF SMITH POND WERE STILL ALIVE, 

HE WOULD BE TURNING 110 YEARS OLD ON APRIL 6, 2015!!!

We invite you to join us at a party celebrating this momentous event!

It will be held on Friday, April 3, 2015, at 5:00 p.m. (dinner at 6:00 p.m.) at the Days Meadows Chapel, 6050 W. Chapel Drive, Highland, UT 84003, across the street from Aunt Donna and Uncle Weldon's backyard. 

Please RSVP to Donna Kitchen (donna_kitchen@hotmail.com), Sandi Pond (pondsk@gmail.com), or Kate Wheeler (katiewheeler@gmail.com). There is also a facebook event which has been created for this party, let us know if you would like to get updates and information through facebook.