Griffin Family

Mime Katie 10/30/11 So Happy Halloween! It's been a busy week that has just flown by!  Tomorrow I will be taking a day off work and going to school to do the Halloween Party for Holly's class and making turnovers for Katie's class.  We are going to get dough and thaw it out and let the kids roll it out and fill it with pie filling and make little turnovers.  Should be messy and fun.  The kind of things kids really enjoy. For Holly's class I only volunteered to do the turnover thing and then the lady who was helping with the rest of the party pulled her kid out of Washington Elementary and put her in George Washington Academy last week and bailed on me at the last minute.  So I get the whole party!   I made a pin the heart on the skeleton game and bingo.  I have a fishing game (with cool prizes) and a bean bag toss along with the turnovers.  Should be fun.  Hopefully we'll have enough grown ups to make it all work. ...

10/23/11 So this is your 1 year mark...later this week...can you believe it?  It seems really strange that it could already be a year and like you've been gone a lifetime...all at the same time!  You've learned and grown so much.  Remember wondering and worrying and the what if's...you know it all now!  I hope this next year goes as fast for us all and you are home soon! So this week has been about like all the others.  Work is busy as ever but I am getting better and better at my new program and while I don't necessarily like everything about it I am learning my way around it pretty good.  I have found some cheater methods to do things quicker and things are moving along at work. We had our 2 day conference Thursday and Friday this week and most of the talks centered around our new program so I think I learned a few new things and will have some things to try when I get back Monday.  It's the first conference in YEARS where I felt l...

10/16/11 Hey AJ -- another week. Luke Peck gave his farewell today and leaves for MTC this week.  Almost exactly 1 year behind you.  He is going to Buena Aires Argentina.  He is pretty excited.  They sang Called to Serve and invited any men in the congregation to join the mens choir.  They packed the front.  It was pretty cool and amazing.  Then they sang God be with you...for the closing prayer.  Lots of tears up there! Holly Dolly I had 3 days off this week and it was WONDERFUL!  and expensive!  So our dishwasher broke and we researched it and the part we needed was $159 plus shipping plus installation if we couldn't figure it out.  A new D/W with a 5 year warranty was $400.  We decided it wasn't worth all the hassle.  The warranty we have will supposedly fix or replace it no matter what for 5 years.  I should have got that originally.  Oh well.  They just don't make things like they used t...

10/9/11 Hey Aj!  How's it going? It's fast Sunday for us so we are busy making delicious goodies for AFTER CHURCH!!!! Sam and Nikki are blessing CiCi today and after church invited us to come over for potluck dinner.  We made pretzel jello and some coconut chocolate bar.  I also am making choco-chip pumpkin bread but it will be for later since it won't be done by the time they start the dinner. Ummmmm..... It's been another pretty good week that flew by!  Yesterday they had a taste of Dixie -- event -- in the park.  I took the girls over and they got to do the bouncy house and make puppets and walk around and play bean bag toss and stuff.  Bryce drove us (only held on to the side of the car a couple of times!!!) .  He will go just about anywhere these days to get to drive.  He's coming along.  MUCH better than when he first started.  I wondered if he had ever watched anybody drive ever.  Haha.  Poor gu...

10/2/11 Well the typhoon reports out of the Phillipines this week are kinda scary.  I am sure you are fine (mission president said you were prepared and not to worry) but it still looks wet and yucky and miserable and scary!  So how did you weather the storms?  From what I can tell the pictures we are seeing are about 200 miles south of you...so does that mean your area was ok?  The latest report said 59 people died from the storm. Did you get transferred? We are watching conference right now so I am trying to pay attention and write to you.  It's been a busy but good week.  Court was once again very busy and long.  Worked until 9 p.m. again this Tuesday.  I gotta cut that out.  I really dislike being in the building after dark alone.  Gives me the willies.  Dad came over when I told him I was alone but I feel bad making him come over.  It's kinda boring.  We handled 61 cases from 3:30-8 p.m. Tuesday. ...