Griffin Family

7/31/11 TALK BY DALLAS GRIFFIN ABOUT PIONEER TREK Hi, My name is Dallas Griffin. I was asked to talk about my experience on the Pioneer Trek. I trekked for James Briggs. James Briggs was 11 years old at the time he immigrated to Utah. I would like to tell you a little about James. His family saved for 16 years to be able to afford to come to Utah. In May of 1956 his family sailed on the ship “Horizon”. His family included his mother and father and 7 children from ages 19 down to 8 months old. James and his family traveled from Boston to Iowa where they spent three weeks making handcarts, sewing tents and doing other preparation for the trek. James and his older siblings took turns pushing and pulling the handcarts. They also took turns carrying their baby sister Emma. They sometimes carried her under their clothing to keep her warm. Crossing the North Platte River on October 19 was very difficult. May people became ill and weak due to exposure to t...

7/31/2011 Well it's the fifth Sunday so Dad had to go in at 7 a.m. but I get the morning off!!! So I made strudel cake for breakfast and kailua pork and rolls for dinner.  I sure like having the morning off!!! Dallas has to talk today in church.  On the pioneer trek.  Lucky kid.  I attached his talk if you are interested.  I think he'll do fine.   He said he might even wear his pioneer outfit...we'll see. Time is flying...school starts in just a couple short weeks now.  Bryce is almost done his summer ag program.  I think Monday and Tuesday next week might be it. Holly has her first ever camp out next week.  Katie's second or third...can't remember.  Anyway we are going up Cedar Mountain and staying at the SUU lodge (wussy camping...indoor on the floor of the lodge).  It'll be fun though. The kids are kind of full of it today.  Holly woke up early and helped me with the baking and then she t...

7/24/11 Shelly, Dallas, Bryce, Katie, Holly Andy & Katie - she's not too excited about riding up on the lift! Hi kiddo! Got a new comp yet...or is that happening in a day or two?  So sad to change when you find something that is working and you like!  Oh well, one thing that is true about life...it never stays the same.  And sometimes that is good, and sometimes that is bad.  Hopefully that is good for you! Cutie Holly Dolly! We had a really nice week in Park City.  We got a condo that had a room for the boys, the girls and the parents.  Nice!  We all had a little space so we didn't feel so cramped!  We were on the second floor and then our unit had upstairs and downstairs.  The condo had 2 pools and 2 hot tubs just across the street.  We were able to do a couple of fun things.  We took a ski lift up from our place to another area of town.  From there we rode a gondola (enclosed ski lift) up to the to...

  7/16/11 Pioneer Bryce Survived pioneer trek!  It was a really great experience.  I wasn't assigned to a family so when I went I didn't really know where I would fit into everything.  The first little while I kind of hopped around from one group to the next but the family that Dallas was in was the most welcoming and so I decided to be their "Aunt Shelly" or Aunt Mmmmm (because I brought a TON of M&M's and shared them with everyone).  Needless to say I was pretty popular as the m's lasted most of the trek! The people that organized the trek did an amazing job.  We had devotionals each morning with our family.  We learned about a dozen different people and their stories within our families.  There was stops all along the way where additional pioneer stories were shared along with songs.  There were many times during the trek where people would be brought to tears as they shared or heard of the experiences of the pioneers. ...

7/10/11 It is almost a rainy day.  Overcast and I guess it sprinkled while we were in our morning meeting.  Thunder and lightening.  Muggy.  Not at all typical!  Kind of nice for a change! Another busy week has flown by so quickly I can hardly remember it!  We are getting ready to go to youth conference pioneer trek this Thursday.  Got our buckets covered with cushions so we can have a seat while out on the trek.  (Did you ever go on a trek?  I don't remember you going but dad says he thinks you did.  If you did tell us about it.) Last night the boys went to the final Dixie Rebel Championship football game while the girls stayed home and had girls night.  We went and looked for a new vacuum because ours wasn't sucking...which sucked!  Haha.  Anyway the cheapest I could find for what would work was $100 and I just couldn't spend $100...yet.  So I bought a $11 filter combo for our old vacuum and figured I w...

7/3/11 Hi Kiddo! Well the summer has officially arrived here.  I think it was around 110 yesterday.  That is really toasty.  Even at the pool, wet...I was HOT!  It was 97 degrees at 10 p.m. last night.  Yeah, this is the dog days of summer.  Time to hit the mountains or something to get out of this heat!  Or just stay indoors. Seems like time is on turbo boost speed these days.  Work has been super busy.  The 2nd week with my new system wasn't too bad. I was a little frustrated one day this week (mostly because the help desk was giving me stupid answers to my questions).  I called and got the right answer from another clerk and things are looking up.  The cops seem to be writing lots of tickets to keep the phones ringing off the hook.  I'll have a total next week when I run my monthly report.  It will be interesting to see if it just FEELS busy or if it really IS busy! We have our box ready to go and...