12/01/24 Turkey Day Week

Andy reading to the girls

Ellie posing!

DJ helping in the kitchen

Gonna start on Wednesday since last week went long! haha.

Wednesday the kids started arriving for Thanksgiving. Bryce and Marlee, of course, were already in town, staying over at the Thatcher's house. Dallas and Kayla arrive early afternoon. Holly and Erik went up north so they were coming Thursday, as was Aj.

Ellie helping prep for Thanksgiving

The kids arrived and everybody ran around to let off some energy. At dinner time we were going to go to Angelica's for dinner...only they closed at 4 p.m. And we went over a little after 6. Oopsy! Ended up heading over to Don Pedros and getting a party platter. We had to wait a bit but it was yummy and we had plenty of food.

Thursday, Kayla had a long list of things to do starting early and taking all day. She made quite the feast. We tried to help a little but mostly she did it all and we tried to corral the kids. (that is not easy! There are 4 and they are fast! haha)

We did heat up the pool and got to swim a couple of times this weekend. The bigs (DJ and Ellie) have no fear so they are a little terrifying in the pool. They just want to swim and so they full speed ahead into the deeper end. So you gotta have eyes on them at all times! We heated the pool to 95 degrees so it was like a giant hot tub. It really was delightful!

While the kids were here we made gingerbread houses, took the kids to the park, played pie face, did puzzles, read books, watched movies and had lots of fun! The house was a bustle of activity from early to late!

Friday evening we did "Friday Pie Day!" We invited the aunts, uncles, cousins and gpa to bring their leftover pies to share and everyone had lots of pie and visiting. It was REALLY busy then! We turned the furniture around to accommodate Thanksgiving dinner and the Friday Pie Day. It really opened up the space but there was still a lot of people and commotion.

Bryce and Marlee left on Friday evening because Katie was coming in from Spain and they were going to pick her up at the airport Saturday. (She got delayed so she was planning to come in by midnight Friday but ended up coming in about noon on Saturday.) They knew about the delay but decided to get up there anyway.

Dallas and family stayed one more day. They washed all their sheets, vacuumed and mopped the house and gave it a really thorough clean...then they put up the Christmas Tree!!! Yeah! And helped decorate it. The had lunch and then headed home. The kids loved being here and were sad to go but they loaded up and head out anyway.

What a fun weekend!

Comments

09/10/23 Hey, do you get to read letters on non-p day, p day?

First time trying a lime Pineapple was more pleasing than lime Well...we went to Provo on Saturday and Sunday -- so your letter is a little later on Sunday than usual...but then I got to thinking...will you even get to see this before Thursday anyway?! So hopefully you're not sad that I'm late and all is well in CHILE. It's a rainy sabbath here...which is weird cause we rarely get rain. But it is drizzly and rainy and our ride home was beautiful for 2 hours, raining for 1 1/2 hours, and then pretty good the rest of the way. Let's see...what happened this week...Monday was Labor Day...so we had a day off work. Yeah!!! We didn't have anywhere we needed to go and planned to have a quiet Monday but first, we went to this store called Sheridan's that is super close to our house. And we found some wonderful outdoor patio furniture. It took us 3 trips to get it all home and all afternoon to unpack and assemble it. So at 5:30, we were just finishing and kinda tired ...

11/09/24 The temple

St George Temple This morning I woke up early and continued to read "Your Endowment", a book Grandma Griffin gave me several years ago but that I never read cover to cover. It is of course, about the temple and the meaning behind the endowment and the other things we learn about in the temple. I'll be honest, a lot of it feels "over my head". I am seeking to learn and know and understand more but I don't have a thorough understanding at this time. Kathy and Steve Spring Yesterday I went to visit Kathy Spring. She worked at Washington City for many years and retired almost 3 years ago. We were good friends and she helped me in the court for quite awhile. Her husband died in January of 2020...looking back she is convinced it was covid but it was just before covid really became a thing. So it's not official. In about a years time she lost her Dad, her husband, her son and a grandson. Life was pretty rough when we were friends back then and I could see the...

10/15/23 Last Letter!

Hey! Can you believe it?! It's your last letter from home!!! This time next week you'll be one tired Hermana sitting in my kitchen with me!!! What a week! Monday was Columbus Day - so everybody had to work ('cept me!!!!) haha I stayed home and worked on projects. I took your car to the tire shop and had the tires inflated and then to Walmart and got an oil change then to the car wash and got the shebang inside and out and then brought it home and scrubbed it for a couple more hours. Wow, it was dirty and still isn't great! haha. I also cleaned the pool and worked on the yard a bit and I don't even remember what else. I just remember I was super tired by day's end! On Tuesday Emmalee came over and did Holly's hair and makeup. She looked really pretty. Afterward, we went to the Covington Home to take pictures. And the funny thing...it was decked out in Halloween decorations. NOOOOO!!!! So we found some areas and took some pictures and I think we got a ...

Griffin Family

Search This Blog