Griffin Family

8/28/11 How does it feel to be 20?  All grown up now!  We'll have to celebrate the day without you.  We were going to go to Texas Roadhouse in your honor but they didn't open till 3 Friday and Dad had to go to Vegas...maybe next week! Well I got all my work stuff figured out and done.  Judge went out of town this week (up the mountains, no cell service) and both he and I forgot we had a hearing set for Friday at 5 p.m. to accommodate a guy that works in New Mexico.  The other party came down from SLC.  I called all the judges in the area and everyone was out of town, sick, birthday party, etc.  Except one.  He came over at 6:30 Friday night (asked the parties to come back and give me time to find a Judge) and when he got there he decided he didn't have jurisdiction to hear the case.  So these poor people had to wait around for over 2 hours to not get their case heard.  He said he had to be appointed by city (Mayor) in order t...

8/21/11 I can't believe another week has come and gone.  Where does it go?  Seems like it's been a good one! Last night the girls and I went to a Girl Scout Luau.  They had all the usual...kalua pork, rice, chicken, salad, dancing girls, big dude doing the hakau 3/4 naked, and some hulu dancing lessons.  It was good.  We got all dolled up and had a good time together. Riley Lewis is home and I guess speaks today.  That went really fast too!  I think Sis. Turner will be back any time now too.  (18 months goes even faster!!!) I think Riley is heading to BYU tomorrow to start scho ol.  Crazy fast!  I think he just got home Thursday last week.  That's a lot of change in a young man's life in a big hurry! Work has been keeping me totally busy.  Seems the faster I go the behinder I get.  Or something.  I have more help than ever before (community service workers, volunteer, part time girl from ...

Cookie queen's -- Holly & Katie 8/14/11 Just got through with our early morning meetings and had some breakfast and getting ready to go to church.  All the girls are prettied up and the boys look handsome! Last week before school is now over and school officially starts tomorrow morning.  Yikes!  I don't know if I'm ready to jump back into busy busy busy again!  Ready or not, here it comes! Katie is on student council this year and starts off at 7:50 with her first meeting tomorrow before school.  I'm not sure what Holly will do since I prefer to take them up together.  I'll have to try to find some acceptable activity for her to do.  Katie says she can go to the library but I'm not sure if she would...and behave.  She needs something busier like being a teacher's helper or breakfast helper or something.  I don't really want to leave her to the play ground.  Kids can be too mean out there w/o supervision! ...

8/7/11 Hi AJ! Seems like just yesterday we were talking to you about our quick tire change on the freeway...and it's Sunday again!  End of that story is we went to Walmart the next morning and they told us it was our fault the tire blew (alignment issue) and they would not honor the warranty.  Went to Costco and paid $435 for 4 new tires and then took it to a mechanic down the road to get an alignment.  He wouldn't give me one.  Said I don't need it and that I just had CRAPPY tires.  No charge, No alignment.  (Seems crazy that he wouldn't just go ahead and align it...I was ready to pay about $100 to him, ya know?)  I don't know what to think...if Walmart and Big O are messing with us (they say I need an alignment every time I go in there) or if they really sold us crappy tires. So the guy at the alignment shop said to come back in 3 months and he'll check things again...whatever! Another busy week flying by.  The girls have been kee...