11/23/17 Thanksgiving Day

We had a really nice Thanksgiving Day.  Dinner wasn't until 5 p.m. (Santa Clara City Hall was booked earlier) so we were able to go for a walk in the morning, help Grandma peel potatoes and apples for dinner, walk around the neighborhood after preparations were done, make our food and then head across town.  We had a pretty good crowd at dinner but not as big as some years...Gpa and Gma Griffin, Ben and Laura (Jared, Nick and Austin and Families); Andy and Shelly (AJ, Katie and Holly); Eddy and Wendy (Newlyweds Parker and Maddie, Abbie, Emma and Aaron). 

Everyone was in good spirits and had a nice visit.  Gma and Gpa brought a craft.  The kids ran around and played.  We had games but never got to them because everyone just visited. 

11/22/17 Thanksgiving a day early

We had a fun week before Thanksgiving.  Bryce and Marlee came Saturday through Wednesday

since they both had to work up in Orem (Macy's and Bed Bath and Beyond) over the holiday. Wednesday afternoon we had our Thanksgiving feast.  Dallas and McKayla were heading to West Jordan for the holiday.  Dallas started working driving truck and was able to be home too! We had the Taylor's come join us (Andy and Laurissa are neck siblings!!! (both had a similar surgery recently))

AJ and his roommate Paul also joined us.  So we had a fun house full of guests. Grandpa and Grandma came too but left before we got family pictures. 

Dad tried to photobomb!

11/18/17 Volleyball

2017 6-8th Grade Volleyball Champs, WCCC

Holly's team won the WCCC volleyball championship for 6-8th graders on Saturday.  When they arrived they were told they were 2nd place to another undefeated team.  One of the girls on the team had talked to the other team and knew that had lost at least one game.  Holly's team had also lost one game.  So they should have been tied.  Also somehow through a scheduling mess up these two teams had never played one another.

SO they took this information to Daylemarie Eves and she went and checked her records.  She confirmed that the two teams were in fact tied and arranged for the girls to have an additional game Saturday between them and the other team.

They had 2 sets already scheduled and now would need to do a third set.  The additional games were scheduled in between their other sets. So they played at 11:20 - and won two games very quickly to win the set.  Then they played the 1st place team.  They lost the first game then won the second game in an extra point game.  Both games were very close. The third game was only to 10 and whoever won would be the champs (as long as the girls won their third set afterward). The game was close all the way to the end.  Our team missed their serve.  Their team missed their serve to give us the win.

The girls were pretty exhausted but when on to play another set and quickly won two games.  Pretty exciting day and ending to Holly's career playing at the WCCC.  Next year she has to play on the school team or she's done!