Griffin Family

 How are things in Chile?!   Things are going well here. SUPER busy and we made it through IRONMAN -- they shut down half of St. George for two days for it! Fezzik and Butter cup from princess bride Let's see...what's exciting here...Jenna's homecoming was nice...I think I already told you that. Julene made peanut butter bars...Julene HATES PB!!!! I made fudgy bars cause I knew she hated peanut butter. I asked her WHY? Why did you make PB Bars when you hate PB SO? She said...then she doesn't have to worry about eating it, cause she hates it! Silly girl! Shelly and Theo Fink at church Love my church baby! Monday I had a "redo" on my mammogram. Failed the first one.    They found a little lump (after smashing my chest practically inside out.    Seriously, if you have to look that hard is it really anything to worry about?!  It wasn't!!! They did an ultra sound after a second mammogram scan and said I was fine. Just come back in 6 months and mak...

 #Worst.mom.ever! (me, not grandma Laurito!) Sorry you made it to pday morning and no letter was in your box. I thought of it a ka-jillion times but never stopped to take the time to write this weekend. I'm gonna try to hurry and get it done before my walk this morning!!! It is October 24, 2022. Gma Deanna Jane Laurito would have been 82 years old today. Happy Birthday to Grandma in heaven.  Sure love that lady. I know you don't have many memories of her but she was a talented wonderful mom.  She got up for early morning seminary with me at 4 a.m. and drove me to church - which wasn't particularly close. She often had a hot breakfast ready. She would sit and wait an hour all the years I couldn't drive myself. Which was a lot because you can't drive until you are 17 in NJ.  She made me prom dresses (that had mixed reviews...one I loved, the other was TOO big and I didn't love...but she spent hours trying!  haha) She was so talented...she painted, stain glass wind...

  It's Sunday afternoon already!  I hope your week has been a good one! We had a busy week with some fun mixed in.  Monday was Columbus Day -- which means I got to stay home from work (but Dad didn't!!!)  I did lots of chores and things and then Dad got off work early to hang out with me. We went for a drive in the convertible -- well kind of. We went out and got it washed and the sky looked really ominous toward Pine Valley...which is where we were planning to go. Decided against it and instead went to the bread store in town and drove around Washington Fields before dinner at Riggatti's with Gpa. It was a fun little excursion...different than our usual day for sure. Monday was also Sandy Casey's (59th) birthday and she chose to spend the evening with us playing pickleball!! Yeah! Tuesday we had a potluck at work...only since it was a holiday Monday just about everyone forgot!    So it was like a super LAME potluck!  haha.  (I was one of the ones...

I  'm gonna start backwards this week with today!  Tongue and cheek tales of woe...meaning...it's a sad story but also not really. It's mostly funny.  Holly just texted me that the guy before her was "sick" and didn't do his portion of laundry at work today so she's got quite the pile to do. (picture attached).  She asked if I wanted to come up and help her!  (It's Sunday and we have company coming in a little bit but I'm considering it. I have off tomorrow and it would be fun to see my Holly Dolly. But I'd likely have to drive to Cedar and back alone because dad has to work in the morning and doesn't want to be out late.  Church was a little wacky today. Last week was general conference and they decided to make today fast Sunday...not a big deal, really. But then they also decided to switch all the classes to Sunday School instead of YW.  Only we didn't know!!! So we had girls prepared to teach today and they couldn't since it was ...

 Somehow all of Sunday got away from me and it's almost bedtime and I'm just getting to write a letter! It was a pretty busy weekend with conference -- 9.5 hours of church is A LOT!   Kelly Campbell Did you get to watch? How do they do that there? I think AJ watched it a week later or something because of time differences. I can't remember. Something different like that! Dad announced the marathon yesterday morning and had a ball game Friday night so he's pretty tired.  Seems like the week flew by pretty quickly but I'm struggling to remember what caused it to feel that way.  Wednesday we had a different activity -- the Haymore's put together a deal where they gave GPS coordinates and sent you around the neighborhood to find notes with scriptures on them. It had, for example, Mosiah 5:1: 14. If that were the scripture you would go to it and count 14 words and then write that word down. There were about 10 words/locations total and then you unscrambled those word...