Griffin Family

5/29/11 I watched the storm all week and it seemed very big and ugly and nasty but I could never find any reports about it doing any damage...so how was it?  It looks like you've been rained on for days and days and days.  Ugh.  I hate rain.  Makes me want to stay in and not do anything.  How are you handling the rain?  Can you go anywhere without being totally soaked? Did you get to go to your training meetings this week? Were they fun? We had another busy week -- last week of school.  Kids are free now and looking for stuff to do.  Dallas got your old job.  He found out Thursday.  Did drug test and filled out paperwork and now is waiting to hear from Dave to find out when he starts. He was pretty excited.  Hope he can handle the heat.  Pretty hot out there.  Not yet...but it will be!  He is also starting acutane this week.  He has to take 307 pills and then he has a 98% chance of never having acn...

5/21/11 Well, how goes it?  Are you settling in to your new area?  Have you had any good successes lately? Things are about the same here.  Just finishing up all the end of year stuff.  Katie did her last dance performance tonight.  Dallas had his band concert Thursday night to finish out the year.  Only 3 days of school left.  Can you believe it? I spent 2 days over in Santa Clara learning the new court system that we are having installed in 1 month.  The state of Utah mandated we all change and we are one of the last courts to make the switch.  There are some good things and some bad things about the program.  I guess the worst part is just having to learn all over again how to do my job. But I'm sure it will come.  I'll just have to be patient with myself for a little while and realize that change takes time! So my friend challenged me to go sugar free...you know trying to drop a couple of pounds.  I couldn...

5/14/11 Was it seriously only 7 days ago that we saw you on SKYPE?  It feels like FOREVER ago!  You looked SO good!!!  It was really good to see you and talk to you!!!! What a BUSY week we've had.  Along with all the weeks have in it we added Grampa Laurito and Grandma Suzanne.  They came on Monday and stayed until today at noon.  Let's see...here's a run down of our week: Monday worked until 5 and then went to Brick Oven Pizza for family night.  G&G L joined us.  We met at the restuarant and visited for awhile and then they went to their place and we went home and put everyone to bed. Tuesday met G&G L for lunch at Don Pedros Mexican.  Gpa bought since it was my birthday.  Worked until 7 p.m. Dad cooked for us and we had Baskin Robbins Ice Cream cake for dessert.   G&G L joined us.  It was yummy. Wednesday met G&G L and G&G G and Eldon and Dallas and Dad for lunch at Dickey's BBQ rest...

5/6/11 I just had a minute and was thinking of you so I thought I'd write.   K, so funny story.  I got a message on my machine at work from a woman in California (I think).  The message is 3.38 minutes long and the whole time she is singing...Did you ever know that you're my hero.  Weird? I ran her phone # through my data base and can't find the # so I have NO idea who it is.  And I think she was drunk...but whatever.  It's pretty funny.   So this week at YW we had 10 girls.  Can you believe it?!  They kept coming in and I was SO happy!  We were sewing our aprons and bonnets and I guess they all want them because that has been my best attended activities lately (this is the 3rd time we've done it).  We got another 12 year old girl that approached me and asked if she could be in YW.  Another non-member that lives in our ward boundaries. She is really cute and seems to need all the love and attention she can get. ...

5/1/11 Pretty good and fast week again.  Let's see...where to start.  So this a.m. I was getting on before church to write to you and had a message in my in box.  So I looked at it was the calendar for May.  On May 1 it said, Lesson #15 Griffin. I was like...WHAT?  So I went to the closet to find the mistake (I was sure it was a mistake) and um...nope, it wasn't.  So I had to give a lesson with little or no prep.  I hadn't even read the lesson once yet.  (I usually read it way in advance to start thinking about things, ya know?) Totally NOT my thing.  Luckily for me I had already gotten lunch ready and was dressed and the girls were ready.  So I printed out the lesson and winged it.  It went ok I guess.  It's hard to judge yourself...so I'm not really sure but I survived anyway.   Ugh. We talked about missionary work and how there was a great amount to do even right here in our ward.  I tried to encourage th...