01/11/11 Happy New Year

1/1/11

The New Year has come in pretty quietly. We went to Grandma and pa's house and played mexican train dominos and ate goodies. We had a nice time. The kids have just been sitting around the house playing games and veggin. It has been SO cold here. We got snow and it has stayed on the ground for 3 days now. It has been so cold that our hot water pipes are frozen in our bathroom. We didn't have hot water until noon today. Luckily the pipes haven't burst.

It really has been a dull quiet week here. Just anxious to hear from you and hoping you survived your grueling travel schedule. We facebooked your mission mama and she said you arrived and that your companion was Elder Weaver (where is he from, how long has he been out, tell us a little about him). She told us what city you were serving in. We googled it...looks like a pretty big city. Probably bigger than anywhere you've ever been, right? How is your place? Are you having culture shock?

So anxious for details. Hope you are doing well. Love you lots!!!! Mom

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01/12/26 Just a couple of things going on

Every Monday night we do family night pizza. This has included Eldon and Diane for quite awhile now. They left on a round the world cruise and will be gone from January - May. So we sent them a pic of these two cuties and told them we missed them. Found this fun scratch off -- you can mark everywhere you've been. We want to travel in our retirement and thought this would be a fun way to keep track of it. (We also have a world map but I think 1 on the wall is enough). SO this is our little inspiration wall to remind us to get out and see the world! Holly painted this picture on her wall a couple of years ago. I added some words and music notes in vinyl to it. I'm working on turning her bedroom into my music sanctuary. The WELCOME pineapple sign was starting to peel off. I took off all the vinyl and painted the words instead. Gave it a nice refresh! We signed up for classes at the college too -- currently we are taking World travel, AI (artificial intelligence), Aging an...

01/13/26 How Many Cookies?!?!?

I planned to visit Washington City and go to the ladies luncheon (they do it monthly on shut off day). I found a new recipe that included putting smashed pretzels in the mix. (I had smashed pretzel, cereal mixture leftover from Christmas). The recipe said it would make 22 cookies. I figured I would triple it and have 66. Welp...they must have been some BIG cookies they were making...cause I got 126 cookies!!!! What the heck?! I backed 24 of them and put the rest in the freezer. Someone will have a nice treat another day!

05/21/26 Rod Griffin History

I am Rod Griffin. I was born in Salt Lake City, actually. In a house on 700 East between 400 and 500 South. That’s what my parents told me, anyway. Born in the back of a house in 1935. When I was a year old my dad opened up a bakery in America Fork, Utah. He operated that bakery for essentially the rest of his career until he retired. So I kinda grew up in a bakery. American Fork was, at that time, a small town — 3,000 people or so. It was good to grow up in a small town. Everybody knew everybody else almost, and everybody knew everybody’s business, too. But that’s the way it is in a small town — but it was good. Me and my friends would go all around town on our bicycles and we would sometimes take our bicycles down to Utah Lake and go swimming in the lake, not realizing how polluted it was at the time. And you know, when you’re young, nothing affects you anyway. So we’d go down and throw that black muck at each other, and so on. Anyway, I went to — t...

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