Griffin Family

10/19/1999 Dear Family, All is well in Alabama! It is even getting cooler, why it was only 82 today. It has been down into the 50,s at night, though. We are all in fairly good  health, considering the condition we are in, Ha! Ha! Monica and Chris  celebrated their first year of wedded "Bliss" a couple of weeks ago. She has  had a sinus condition on and off all summer, and even spent a night in the  hospital because of dehydration. She seems to have that under control now. Last week she broke out with a rash, and had to go to a Dermatologist today  for it. He gave her Predisone (?) and some ointment and told her  that if it  wasn't noticeably better by Friday to call his office. He was not real sure  what was wrong, and did not rule out the possibility of a reaction to a bug  bite. Chris is busy getting ready for Hunting Season in his Preserve, which  keeps him hopping. Diane and I are still plugging alo...

I have lots of mending that needs done but I don't think mom will be here long enough to help much with it.  The kids have clothes galore that need to be made into shorts or holes mended. We had a fun weekend.  Aj enjoyed swimming at Sand Hollow Aquatic Center with his cousins.  We had cake and ice cream for his birthday.  He got lots of cool 8 year old stuff and had a great time. In the late afternoon we went up to New Harmony and visited with Grandma and pa and Eldon and Diane came down.  They are still in a pretty bad way.  They went up and saw the place where Becca died.  They were really sad when they got to Griffins.  We spend the evening together- had pizza and hung out.   Sunday I taught the lesson on Living a Virtous Life - which is the new unit we are on.  It went really well - it could have gone a little better but I ran out of time to get things done and had some things go wrong at the last minute - but I sent you a...

Monday, July 12 th , 1999 Life has been chaotic since I got back.   Thursday & Friday I had lots of work to do since I'd been gone so long so work just flew by.  Court was nice and short Thursday - only 2 people came and they both got continued so they could consult an attorney before making a plea.  Boring.  So we were done by 5:30 p.m. Friday night after work I went shopping and got some movies at Albertson’s.  We didn't feel like doing much so we just stayed in and watched movies.  Not too exciting. Saturday we had our first presidency meeting.  The bishop's counselor (Steven Haddox) came and went on for about 1 1/2 hours.  Then we had to do our part (getting things semi-organized -- the ladies that just left had NO CALENDARS - nothing written down about what's going on!!!)  So our meeting ended up being almost 2 1/2 hours.  Yikes.  And we only planned July.  Geesh.  This better stop in a hurry. We...