Griffin Family

12/19/11 Life here is Washington Utah is pretty much the same as always! Just finished basketball season for the girls (Katie's team won 1st and she will be getting a plaque with her name on it!!!)  Girls start soccer next week.  Had about 3 weeks off in between I think.   Girls are still keeping busy with girl scouts and piano and achievement days, math club and choir.  They really seem to enjoy school and life in general and being busy and singing and doing their thing.  Seems like one or the other of them is always singing...in the shower, while they do chores, whatever.  Very happy little girls! The boys went on a camp out this weekend.  I guess there was 6 boys and they all slept in a tent.  With one that had gas.  Yummmmmmm....??!!!  Dallas said he slept at the end of the tent on a down hill slope and work up at 4 a.m. with a big pile of Teddy on him.  (the same one with the gas!!!).  Ah...the memories...

1 2/12/11 Wow I can't believe it is Sunday again.  It has been such a busy week.  Kind of too much week, if you know what I mean! Dad has been way too busy working on what might be the last issue of the mag if some $$ doesn't get "got" by the guys in charge of making the $$!  He has worked from early in the a.m. (radio show) until late into the night for many days.  So exhausting! We have also been staying super busy at my work too.  Another Tuesday evening where we handled 68 cases and were at work until after 8 p.m.  After awhile you just feel kind of overwhelmed by it all! YW is going well.  Had another good turnout (10 girls!!) Wednesday and 5 on Sunday.  Everyone seems to be getting more excited and more involved and it is good to see.  I sometimes am overwhelmed by all there is to do to keep things going but usually a good afternoon nap helps me get over my discouragement!  We are currently getting ready to play...

12/9/11 Holy Ghost talk by Shelly given at Fellicity Olsen’s baptism Holy Ghost Are you Paying Attention? Display a picture of a bird and a quarter. Two men were walking down a busy city street. The one asked the other, "Listen to that bird." "I don't hear a bird," the other replied. "No, you must listen harder." The second individual listened very carefully and after a few seconds, he finally heard the bird amongst the hustle of the street. The first individual asked, "Do you think THEY hear the bird?" The second man looked around at the rushing pedestrians racing past them. "No, probably not." "Now watch this." The first gentleman flipped a quarter, allowing it to fall to the ground. Scads of people stopped and looked for the fallen coin. "Amazing," came the reply of the second man. How often do we walk through life, with our minds and hearts attuned to the material things of ...

12/9/11 Hey!  So the baptism went really well Wednesday night.  The primary room was pretty packed.  Great turnout. I was pretty impressed with our ward and stake.   Two Sunday's ago Fellicity came to our house with her Grandma and asked me to give the Holy Ghost talk at her baptism.  I agreed and this past Sunday morning I got up early and prepared my talk.  About 9 a.m. President Whitney, our ward mission leader, called and said that he had received the program and would I give the closing prayer because the talk had been assigned to someone else and the program was printed and I wasn't on it. I said sure (Holly's getting dunked next month so I figured I might need the talk anyway!).   So I printed out my talk and put it in my church bag and forgot about it.  Wednesday night I went to the baptism and guess who's name was on the program to give the talk...mine!  Imagine if I had not had that talk prepared yet when he called me! ...

12/4/11 Katie Sunday morning once again!  It's been a long busy week for Dad.  I'm sure he'll tell you all about it.  He finally got some sleep last night so hopefully he'll be able to recuperate from his week quickly! It's been another quick week here. Seems like the days just fly by. Wednesday night we had 7 non-members and 3 members come to our activity.  Cool, eh?  AND the sister missionaries were stopping in the building for a potty break and I in vited them to come hang with us.  They were really cool.  I told them I had 8 non-member girls that I was working with and they were stoked.  They fit right in and did our activity with us for an hour before they had to leave for their next appointment.  They didn't know we had so many non-members and were really excited to hear it. Holly Dolly Fellicity and her little sister Sydney are getting baptized Wednesday night this week.  The missionaries have...

11/27/11  Guess what?! Your GINORMOUS box arrived this week!  We haven't opened it yet because it is for Christmas but it is safe and sound here in our room!  Everybody was WAY excited to see it!  (How much did that cost to send??! -- I think sending you something that size would be over $200, maybe more!)  The little box I sent off last week was $60 and it was WAY smaller than that!  (Katie and Holly want to know if there is b-day presents in there that I need to find before Christmas?) So things are good here.  Thanksgiving was beautiful.  The weather was up above 60 degrees and Jared and Family, Nick and Bree, Ben and Laura, Grandma & Gpa and our family ate at Aunt Laura's.  Everything was delicious.  The crowd wasn't too big -- we all fit on a long table or two in the back yard with the little boys at a smaller table.  It was nice.  We were down quite a few with Wendy and Eddy, Austin and family, and the who...

11/20/11 Are you feeling better after your bought with the Dengue Fever? I hope so!  We figured you were probably all back to yourself at this point! Dallas has MONO so we were able to think about you while we have been trying to take care of him.  His tonsils are HUGE (I may have told you that last week).  They may have gone down a little bit but they are seriously still monster tonsils as of yesterday.  The DR said MONO is a virus so he just has to get over it.  He gave him some steroids to shrink the tonsil (like I said this is about 6 days in on the meds and they aren't really shrunk at this point) and some pain reliever (tylenol with codeine) to help him fight the pain and get some sleep.  So far he's still gone to school and "functioned" but he seems tired and not quite himself. Dave commented that Dallas was kind of being lazy last week and he was surprised -- I told him he had Mono and he was like, OH, well that makes sense. So I to...