Griffin Family

  It's been a rainy busy week. Just kept thinking the rain would stop but it just kept raining. Felt like I was back home in Jersey again! Monday night we went to the fancy dinner with all the city council, congressmen, senator's reps, and freeport west staff. They are putting a fancy gigantic commercial center down by the airport in Washington City and this was a kickoff party.   We ate at a fine dining restaurant called 1861 Fine Dining. (weird name, right?) It was like $50 each person.  Tuesday we had a RS activity (the quarterly ministering interviews) and YW presidency meeting. I guess we've been having a lot of clicks and discomfort with our YW. We needed to talk about things but one of the leaders brought their daughter...so kinda tough to talk about anything with a girlie there, ya know!  It feels like there are some disconnects and YW is a little rocky right now. Maybe it's cause I don't have a girl so it's harder to be excited about all the a...

  Well...you knew about our last week and all the fun it brought with the water heater and flood. We got that all remedied and paid for. The flood people came out with a wet stick and then an infrared camera to make sure everything was ok. They sprayed anti-mold stuff and removed the pad in your carpet. Replaced the pad and then relayed the carpet (they had to staple it back in...or whatever they do).  Then they came back and cleaned your carpet and then next day Holly's carpet. Whew.  I venmo paid them $825 on Wednesday as we were going out to meet Aunt Laura and Uncle Ben and Gpa for dinner.  It was raining and raining and raining here. Like more than I ever remember.  (Turns out this is true. This is officially more rain then ever recorded in Washington County. Even more than 2005 when the houses fell in the river.). So we walked in after driving around and seeing massive amounts of water everywhere and a drop of water lands on my nose in the hallway between ...

  It's been an expensive month so far! Fortunately, we are able to cover the expenses that are coming our way, but...ouchie!!! Holly and mom at the BlvdHome Cafe Also, to put things in perspective -- we are healthy and well and alive...so that's good!   I think you knew that our water heater went out for a replacement fee of $2600. Ouch! Didn't see that coming!  But we have hot water again and that's good. A whole bunch of other things hit this month making for a VERY expensive 10 days so far! This included...every year there is a mortgage adjustment...that came this week, we paid for our cruise, H&R Block tax preparation, Taxes, bought dad's birthday stuff, and luggage, and the insurance came due (we pay every 6 months so it's big when it comes!!!), tithing and your mission fee.  Add all this together and we are at just over $9K. WOW...!!!!  But wait...there's more! This week I've been saying I smell something that smells bad. I would get a w...

 The week after a trip is always tough...kinda tired from the previous week and back at it again!  Monday we jumped right back into the week and played Monday pickleball right after work with the Casey's and then had pizza at Gpa's house. We didn't get home until around 8 p.m. That's a long day!   But a good one! It was fun! Bryce and a pic of little Bryce Tuesday evening we were pretty beat, so when I got him at 6 p.m. (had to run to costco first), I went right to my room and put on my pjs. Dad was running around in his underware. And our friend's Milt and LeAyn (from pickleball) knocked on the door to deliver pinkbox donuts to dad. So nice!  Haha Dad had to scramble to put some clothes on.  Wednesday was dad's birthday. Holly and Erik went to the radio station to surprise dad with a cookie and drink from swig. Dad worked a full day and then we went to Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner with E&D, B&L, Gpa, E&H and us. (Honestly that is too...