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10/30/16 October in pictures

October has been a busy month for everybody in the Griffin household.  Andy played his first ever senior games as he is old enough to play finally!  (Must be 50). He played basket ball on a team with Darren Cole and they took 2nd place overall in their age group.  It was a lot of fun and they played several games over a 3 day period.  He played 3-on-3 half-court. 

On the Saturday (the last day) he drove up and a lady backed into his mustang and crunched it.  Probably cost $2K - $3K to fix it.  It is almost November and we're still working on that!



















The Carnevale kids came over for Friday night while their parents went out on a date.  They had tons of fun making treats and playing games.









Fun family photos

Best side forward boys...







Katie's band performed at the St. George marathon








Mr Lanners



Warby


Holly started YW volleyball season and has really enjoyed it!












Katie finished out the year on the freshman volleyball team.  She improved exponentially (seriously!!! it was amazing to watch her keep getting better!)  She started out the season with a * by her name (you can come but you might not get to play much).  She ended the year as a started most of the time and received MVP for one of the last games of the year.  Unfortunately the team didn't win a single match the whole year however I think they learned to lose well (they were always smiling and having fun) and they are more empathetic now to others who lose and they kept trying even though it was frustrating.  Very proud of her accomplishments. 























Bryce and Marlee, Katie and Andy went to the Glenn Miller Band performance.  Katie loved it most of all! She said there was nowhere else she'd rather be that night then with her dad at that concert!







Fossil Ridge band concert.  Holly played french horn and trumpet.  Gma and Gpa Griffin came.  It was on a Tuesday night and I even got to get there too!!!! YEAH!!!





Annual Trunk-or-Treat with the 9th ward
Motorcycle dude and skeleton bride



She's a Pineapple!

McKinley (princess), Holly (emoticon girl), Miranda Warby (captain america)
and McKenzie Riley (also a superhero)






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