Griffin Family

3/27/2016 The weather has been pretty nice this week so we were able to play pickleball Monday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoon after work.  The McAllister's joined us and then on Thursday they introduced us to some other couples and we played with some different people.  The one couple was the best of two married couples and were preparing to play in a tournament Friday.  They were pretty good (too good for me!!) but the other couple we were able to hold our own with.  Dad thinks we could have won on a different day -- probably so.  It was fun to meet new people and play though. Tuesday was caucus night so the prosecutor wanted to get done early so we had a nice early night (prosecutor left at 6:30 p.m., we were out of there by 7:15 p.m.)  Unfortunately I know that the next two weeks we are going to pay for our easy night as the calendar is stacked high.  Wah!!!  Judge always likes to say...you never get a day/night off, you ju...

3/20/16 HI!   It feels like we get a Sunday off because today is the Provo Temple Dedication.  So all regular meetings are cancelled and we have 3 sessions to choose from 9, 12 or 3 to go to the Stake Center and watch the dedication.  We are going to go later so it feels like I got my old Sunday pattern back (walk, write Bryce, eat, take a bath, practice piano, go to church) So Ida Lunceford died last Wednesday about an hour after we left.  I am thankful for her that she was able to go quickly and seemed like without too much pain. Her funeral was really nice and I enjoyed seeing old ward members and seeing some of her kids for the first time.  It was a beautiful service. Our family relations class went really well.  (Dad did everything, so of course it did! He's such a great teacher).  We had a great group -- Taylors, Wilkins, Carevales, Clarks, Wrights, Telfords (new people), Raes, Sister Johnsona and Sister Thornton.  I think that ...

3/13/16 Cab of truck caught fire and shut down freeway for about 1 hr It's been a week to reflect upon life and death.  Jacklin Tracey's funeral was nice.  (Mom's oldest sister's husband...Uncle Jacklin)  I didn't really feel like I knew him but at the funeral I learned all of the great things he did throughout his life and he was a great man who loved to serve the Lord until he died. On our way back from SLC we ran into traffic stopped dead on the freeway.  And it stayed that way for the better part of an hour.  When we were finally able to pass this is what we saw.  Kids tell me if you look close the guy was hauling cookies (nutter butters) and stuff.  I'd have stopped to clean up if I'd a realized!!! haha. The kids say if you look close the load was cookies...yummy!! Later this week I got an email stating that Sister Ida Lunceford had terminal cancer.  I've been feeling like I needed to visit her but things had gotte...

3/7/16 Tabernacle Choir performing March 6, 2016 Been a busy week.  Monday night we celebrated dad's 50th birthday and Randy and Kay Phillips did a slide show about their mission.  Ben and Laura, Us, Jared and Brittney and kids , Wendy and Eddy and kids and Austin and Lindsey and kids were there.  Plus gam and pa and the Phillips.  It was pretty crowded!  The kids did pretty good but they were a little fidgety during the presentation. Eldon and Andy Shelly, Holly and Katie at tab choir Tuesday night was a monster.  Didn't leave work until 9:30 p.m.  We handled over 70 cases from 5-9:30 p.m.  Wednesday I had my last physical therapy session for my shoulder (yeah!!!!) and a dentist appointment.  Dad and I got out for his first time since the accident and played pickleball.  He did pretty good.  We're trying to take is slow so he doesn't reinjure his knee. Ray and Suzanne Laurito at the tab choir Thur...

Shelly and Andy at SL Temple Square after Tab choir performance Deanna Laurito mausoleum drawer I forgot to mention that while we were up in SLC after going to the tab choir we took state street home.  It passes the cemetery where gma L resides.  Truly I haven't been excited to go there.  We went the day of the funeral and then the next time we tried to go back the big van died never to revive and we were more worried about the vehicle than visiting the grave.   I asked dad if we could stop and we were able to easily find her drawer and spend some peaceful time in the cemetery.   So like 3X this past weekend I really felt the spirit and teared up and had to hold in my boo-boos.  I try not to dwell on not having my mama but I really miss her!!!   Mausoleum Mausoleum  (right above Katie and Andy's head a little to the left on the top level is mom's spot) The whole building Lake Hills Memorial Mortuary and Cemetary...