Griffin Family

09/27/15  Hey Bro! This week was really a good and busy one. School is in full swing with mid-terms coming up and tons of homework! Today in church I was reading some of my old notes and I found a story from Sheri Dew about when she was at BYU. So she had always wanted to play basketball for BYU and never received any attention after high school. While she was at BYU the team had some injuries and was holding an open try-out. She unfortunately doubted herself and never tried out. Years later she met the coach and talked to her about that particular year and her unfulfilled dream of playing collegiate basketball. The coach told her that they held tryouts and never ended up picking up any of the girls and that year they were shorthanded because they needed a player of her type(I think she was a guard and none tried out that fit the description).  So long story short is that the Lord opens up opportunities that are specifically for us and that may go EMPT...

Holly is bridging from Junior to Cadette It's been a pretty good busy week.  Porcelain Peine with Holly who is now a Cadette  (she is wearing Katie's sash) Monday the girls had early out and got to play with friends and hang out.  In the evening we got pizza and went over to Wendy's clubhouse and had dinner and pickleball and swimming.  Dad and I played pickleball with Gpa and Eddy.  It was fun.  Gpa is 80 years old and he did awesome!  I think he really enjoyed it too!  He said he wasn't too sore afterward or anything so we'll have to do that with him again some time! Wednesday the girls all had things to do...Katie YW; Holly went to the PVHS homecoming parade with the Riley's so Dad and I went and played pickleball up at the end of green springs. It was fun.  It is still REALLY hot here so we got to sweat extra good! Thursday nights dad covers girls soccer games and Nikki Turner is playing so we have been going toget...

9/21/15 Super busy week as I had conferences Monday and Tuesday in addition to regular work. And something they have never done before...the conference Monday went until 7 p.m.  Who does that?!  And then started 8 a.m. the next day (so I had to go to work early Tuesday to get ready for court after the conference).  Made for a nice end of the week cause I was all out of hours for the week! Thursday night Dad and I went to the soccer game and Nikki Turner was playing.  That was cool. She is a pretty good little defender.  She is a senior this year but she's still a little beehive to me! Friday we went to a place called Ninja with gma and pa and it was a lot better than I expected and not too pricey either.  We enjoyed it. Dad went out to Hurricane for a game and me and the girls hung with the Turner's.  It's been a long time since we've seen them.  Saturday morning Katie marched in her first parade.  She had to get t...

Strange day because it was Stake Conference so I'm all messed up on my schedule!  I usually write you in the morning after my walk but today I had to get ready and go to church after my walk! We had a good regional conference...AJ got the same church as we did, so did everybody down here I guess. Aj was at the Marriott Center where it was broadcast, we were all in our church houses watching.  Creating a Harry Potter Game Brother Ballard gave a talk saying that we need to have faith and be dedicated and committed to the church. He said we are more blessed than any other people on all of history -- we are prospering in the land. He warned us to live within our means and not try to keep up with the neighbors.  We need to maintain good spiritual and physical habits -- make adjustments where necessary.  Creating a Harry Potter Game Be need to stay connected to the Lord - pray, fast, study the scriptures, go to the temple, take care of the needy, ...

This looks like what was pulled out of our van! AJ,  So, do you know how lucky (blessed) you are?  Me too?  (Background: Aj had taken the van up to Provo the weekend prior.  He brought back a van full of college kids.  They stopped out in Kanab and spent the night then went to Zion National Park before coming home Saturday afternoon 9/5/15. ) 09/08/15 New fan belt Yesterday morning the van started making a funny noise.  We had only driven to church (9/6/15) and back since you dropped it off.  Didn't go to gmas because they were out of town and stuff.  So 2 miles total.  I got in the van at 6 a.m. headed over to Home Depot and it sounds like a lawn mower.  Strange.  Get out, look around.  Huh, can't figure out what's going on.  Go to Home Depot and back and decide I better park it until Dad can peek at it. So now 6 miles total. I want to go to the pool so I listen and can't hear anyth...

The shirts you got us came in. Thank you from everyone!!!!  Very thoughtful of you!  I still have to give Marlee her t-shirt.  I figured we'd take it to her farewell if I don't see her before then.  Monday started off with Dad taking the motorcycle test.  And not passing.  He was bummed.  I guess the course is really tight and it's hard to maneuver a big bike in a little course.  So not a big deal...he just has to keep practicing and try again another time.  He has a year.  The dump thing is he didn't even get to finish the test so he doesn't even know what else he needs to work on exactly.  He'll have to go out and watch some other tests and see if he can try again.  Carnevale's had us over for Monday night dinner last week.  Brazilian BBQ and rice and beans.  It was really delicious. Poor bishop had an appointment at the last minute and didn't get to hang with us for a large portion of the evening. Their ki...