Griffin Family

5/27/12 Wow this week has been a whirlwind of activity from start to finish! Dallas had his patriarchal blessing Tuesday night after court at 8:30 p.m. We were at the patriarch's until 10 p.m.  Kinda late for this little one!  The patriarch did an amazing job.  Bryce got his today and he cautioned Bryce not to "compare" blessings and stated that the patriarchs sometimes get too long winded and his would probably be shorter than Dallas' because Dallas' was kind of long...and then he gave Bryce what I think will turn out to be an even LONGER blessing!  They were both very amazing and inspired and wonderful.  It will be neat to receive them and actually read them.  He said he is still working on editing Dallas' and it is not ready for pickup yet.   We had Holly's Luau on Wednesday and that turned out really cute and fun.  The kids enjoyed making poi balls and necklaces.  They played games.  Dressed Hawaiian, got their pix taken ...

5/20/12 Hey AJ! It was so good to see you last week!  You look amazing and healthy and happy.  Always good to see!!!  I'm glad we aren't cry baby family...Cristy said Luke got on and started bawling like a baby and they just cried for over an hour.  Ugh.  I don't like crying!!!!  I miss you, but I don't want to cry about it! I guess there is an eclipse tonight and the best place in the whole word to watch it...kanaraville Utah.  So we are having an eclipse party at the folks' place.  All the rest of the family is coming I guess.  Should be fun. It's been an extremely busy week -- dad in SLC since Wed evening.  My dad and Suzanne came to visit M-F.  YW, YM.  Piano recital.  Powder puff derby (pinewood derby for girlscouts).  Katie got to go to jumping jacks for student council.  She also scored 100% on end of level testing.  The highest score in her whole grade, no one matched it.  Sh...

4/22/12 Well the week has turned rather warm here in a big hurry!  I swear it was just last Sunday that it was chilly, windy, cool...not it is over 90 and sunny and toasty!  Holly went out yesterday for a little while and came back crispy!  I was really surprised how quickly she got burnt! We had a fun day yesterday.  The girls had the usual soccer games and Holly's team lost and Katie's won.  Katie's team is still undefeated.  She keeps managing to get on great teams.  She says they aren't even the same girls that were on her undefeated basketball team.  So, cool, eh?! It really was warm yesterday so two different times the hose was turned on and water fights galore.  Earlier it was Dallas and the girls.  Later me and Dad joined in.  Bryce stayed dry.  Old man.  Not sure why he didn't wanna play. After a fantastic BBQ dinner we headed over to the kite festival.  The girls each got a book or a kite...

4/15/12 Well the Grandparents are on an Elderhostel so we are all on our own for dinner today.  Sad, huh!? Yesterday I bought 20 pounds of salsa and canned about 20 bottles of salsa.  So today, since we have an abundance of salsa, we are having Cafe Rio pork.  (It smells really good out there!)  Still have to make the tortillas.... I don't know what I was thinking buying that many tomatoes!  Luckily it was a rainy day and everybody had nothing better to do then help! Friday night we had hikes we were supposed to do for YW Camp.  The weather was NASTY.  Seriously, blowing, cold, rainy off and on.  Each group of kids had a different leader assigned.  So I got the 2nd year girls ...Darby, Arrianna and Kyleigh.  Arrianna banged her head and wasn't feeling well so she ditched us.  Kyleigh was saying all along she couldn't go then last minute she could.  Darby was all excited all along and then seriously, as I'm walk...

4/8/12   It has been a nice family filled weekend.  We went to gma and pa's yesterday and had the traditional egg hunt.  Wendy's family, jared's kids, ben and laura, and us were there.  A good little bunch of egg hiders and egg finders.  Bryce brought along Matty..the girl from bloomington he is sweet on.  She is a cute girl and I think she enjoyed the day with the Griffin's.  Grandma tried to get Katie to be a hider and not a finder...but heck no!  She was not ready to "grow up" just yet!  She insisted on hunting eggs again this year.  Emma on the other hand (2 months older than Katie) would NOT hunt eggs, but chose to "help" Holly with her hunting.  Funny girls.  We have some cute pix of everyone which hopefully dad can get to you! Today we are going to Laura and Ben's house for another get together.  Sure to include great food and family.  Yesterday was brunch, today is 4 p.m. dinner. I guess there i...

4/1/12 Well it's time to watch the 2nd session of conference (an hour ago) but with Tivo we can watch it whenever we like!~  So we will turn it on soon and then head to gma and pa's house for dinner! I am making our sweet pork and burritos for dinner (dont think it is gpa's favorite) but everybody else loves it. The week has flown by and I can't even really think what exactly went on!  Work has been easier this week, not sure why. Seems to have slowed down or I've had plenty of good help or I've gotten better at what I am doing...not sure.  But it is nice.  I have to work for Kerry the treasurer next week, 3 days.  So I need things to be calm up in my world!  I will be getting all the money from the community center, golf course and city hall.  Counting it and depositing it.  I am scheduled to do it again for 1 week the end of May too. I feel very blessed right now.  All the kids seem to be on the right track and there is...

3/18/12 Holly & Katie love each other! Well the week has flown by again.  The boys went to Disney and had a great time.  I don't think they spent much time actually sleeping.  They came home Friday night and both said they might have slept 2 hours on the bus. Maybe.  They got home at 7 a.m. Friday morning and went right to bed.  I think they came out about 2 p.m.  Aaaah.  Ashley Brimhall also went on the trip.  Her mom posted that she got up at 5:30 p.m. Yes, a great trip! Bryce got put in as President of the Teachers Quorum today.  So we have 3 presidents in the house right now. Bryce went to the Stake Dance last night.  He really enjoys those.  Especially since he gets to see that one girl from Desert Hills that he is sweet on.  He is a funny kid. The girls spent Tuesday night and Wednesday at Grandma's house with Emma.  Far as I can tell the girls had a blast.  Emma and family have moved...