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05/31/15 Grandpa Griffin turns 80!

05/31/15

 Well I think things are finally feeling a little less stressful here!  The girls are out of school.  Dad's still working but not quite as much. 

Last week we had our first choir practice since Christmas I think. After Christmas the ward split and things got crazy and our new 9th ward never had a choir again. We practice last week and this week before church and then sing today at ward conference today.  

Tuesday the stake YW did visits and Sister Hafen and Sister Spriggs came to visit Katie (and the family).  They visited for 1/2 hour and it was nice.  They actually came late enough that I got home right after they got here, so that was nice!  

Wednesday we bought 150 stepping stones from home depot.  (Lowe's had them on sale and Home Depot ad matches PLUS I had a 10% off coupon too!  So I ended up saving like $115 or something.  It was quite a bit!  I am going to try to make a little pad in the back corner by our bedroom for the swing and the table and chairs. Also a pad for the garbage cans and maybe some stones to walk from the front yard to the back yard.  We'll see how far they go. 

150 stepping stones is a lot of stone.  And they were heavy.  Made the truck look very low!  We hurried and unloaded everything on the side of the house (thanks to everyone for helping it went pretty quick) and then Katie and I had YW and Dallas and McK went back to Home Depot to pickup the sand.  They felt the truck was already loaded enough and didn't want to add another 150 lbs of sand!

Wednesday was super slow at work so I left a little early and then took off Thursday.  Aunt Laura's birthday was Thursday so we had lunch at Kneader's with her, Wendy, mom and dad.  It was kind of a last minute thing that just worked out.  It was nice. 

Friday through next Wednesday I am doing the treasure job at work (picking up, counting and depositing all the money for the city).  I do that whenever Kerry is out of town.  He is in Hawaii this week, lucky guy!  So I had an extra little bit of work to do Friday!  Sometimes it works perfect but it was tricky Friday ... someone was $50 short on their drawer and a couple other little things!  Took 2.5 hours, sigh.  Oh well.  Makes the day go super quick. 

Friday night we went out with Gma and pa to Texas Roadhouse for dinner and to celebrate grandpa's 50.  It was really nice and delicious!

Saturday we went to Dickie's clubhouse for a pool party and birthday celebration.  Wendy had it decorated really nice and there was sandwiches, chips, fruit, cake and ice cream.  Everybody came but it was not too crowded with the kids swimming and playing and happy the whole time. 

We had a nice quiet evening at home last night playing games and chilling.  Much needed after the go-go-go we have been doing lately. 

Well I love you and hope everything is going well.  Hope you had a great week! xoxo mom




























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