Skip to main content

12/27/15 Merry Christmas!

Family skyping with Bryce
It was so fun to see you and talk to you Friday!!! You look really great!  
Darth Vader came to visit before Christmas!
This week has been busy and fun and fast.  

Katie and Holly and Dad went with Gma and pa on Monday morning to breakfast.  Wendy and Emma came too.  They celebrated Katie's 14th birthday at Denny's.  We had stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut for Katie's birthday evening and had fun celebrating Katie. 

Tuesday the girls had dentist appointments and no cavities!  YEAH!! But they are supposed to go back to get their teeth sealed early next year. 
 
Wednesday Katie spent the afternoon with the gparents sewing and getting ready for Christmas.  I think they all had fun. 
Guess he told Andy a thing or two. 

Somewhere in this week we got all the presents wrapped and treats made and everything ready.  

Thursday evening we enjoyed family time and AJ joined us from Provo and we did our traditional drive around town to look at the lights. Hot cocoa and treats afterward. 

Friday morning we told everyone to wait until 9 a.m. (So nice to have grown up kids!!!) Dallas and McKayla came over and Holly woke AJ up with a spray bottle. (I think he secretly loved that?!  I KNOW Holly loved that!!!)  We read the Christmas story and then opened presents for about an hour.  The usual way, each one picking a present from youngest to oldest until they were all gone. 

We enjoyed cinnamon rolls, an egg/sausage casserole McKayla brought, little smokies, chocolate milk, apple cider.  It was yummy.  

The highlight of the day was getting to see you and talk to you for an hour!!!  Wasn't long enough but it was sure good to see you. 

Not too long after we hung up Ben and Laura came over along with Wendy and Eddy and family. Randy and Kay ended up coming too and Maddi's friend Camilla.  So we had 21 for dinner. We squeezed in the kitchen and enjoyed a pretty good spread of food.  (Smoked turkey, ham, smoked cheese, rolls, cheesy potato, green bean casserole, salad, jellos, Laura's world famous cookies) I'm sure there was more but you get the idea. 

The kids played upstairs -- ping pong and hanging out.  The adults did an exchange of favorite things and that was fun too. 

Saturday we borrowed the star wars movies from Taylor's and watched IV and V.  We plan to watch VI next and then one of these days we'll go watch the new star wars.  

It's been nice to have some quiet time and play games and hang out and not have anywhere we need to be or anything we have to do!

Quote for the new year/week: 
You've got to think about big things while you are doing small things so all the small things go in the right direction. 

Love you lots and looking forward to a great 2016!  

Love you! Mom



Multitasking...


Enjoying Hot Chocolate!
Hot Chocolate!

Yumm!
McKayla made delicious Hot Cocoa!


Everything's ready for Christmas morning!

Sporting my new jammies, boots and treats!

Opening presents!

Hmmm...which one should I pick?

My favorite gift!  My Honey!

Bryce on the big screen


Big spread!

Andy hugging on his lil sis!
Cheers!


Randy and Grandpa Griffin
Yummy Christmas dinner. 

Abby and Grandma Griffin

Wendy and Andy filling up their plates

Katie and Holly opening gifts



Chilling!

Aaron trying to figure out what he got


Emma loves her pillow and reading light and treats

Katie loves her book!

Favorite things game

Katie, Andy, Randy & Kay Phillips

Grandpa and AJ

Favorite things game

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

03/28/26 Trip to Italy, Day 5, Saturday, Florence

We stopped at a local restaurant and got some breakfast tarts and then went to the Academia and saw the statue of David and had a tour. We returned to the same Restaurant and had panini sandwiches for lunch. Then we went to the Uffizi Museum for another tour. We had yummy gelato and took a rest for a while.  We walked through the leather market and to a cool bridge. We walked around the city awhile into we came to a restaurant that was super cute and we ate outside. We had ravioli and pizza. We walked a bit more after dinner and then came back and played games. Academia Statue of David A bum shot Kevin and a cello One of the first pianos ever Early pianos Art in the Uffuzi The ceilings!  Art in the Uffuzi Art in the Uffuzi Bridge of Sighs, Florence Shelly in the Bridge  Florence Florence Andy and Shelly in the Uffuzi Art in the Uffuzi Florence Florence Trash bins in Florence Restaurant in Florence Outside in the street...so quaint! Restaurant in Florence Restaurant ...
Post a Comment
Read more

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...
Post a Comment
Read more

08/23/25 Organ

The Washington First Ward Building was sold to the City of Washington. Part of my responsibilities included dispensing of the organ and pianos in the building (along with other things).  It is an Allen, approximately 1970s.  I put the organ up on the auction. There were a couple of other people that were bidding on it, but I ultimately won the bid (for under $100). On the day I won the bid I was able to arrange a mover!!! I paid $250 to have someone from the piano store move it to our house (I have no idea how he managed to get that into the back bedroom....but he did it!!!) Then, it wouldn't work. 😭 I waited for approximately 6 weeks before a guy (who had to be 80 years old) came down from SLC and repaired the organ. (So the organ wasn't actually broken, it had to do with the electricity and the house talking nicely to one another.) It took him a couple of hours to figure it out. He charged about $200 and voila! I have a working church organ.  Cool, eh?  Now, I got...
Post a Comment
Read more