Griffin Family

Aj was able to join us for Katie's 15th birthday!!! Katie got spoiled by Gma and Gpa Griffin as they took her to breakfast and then shopping the morning of her birthday.  She got a leather jacket and some cool boots!!!  All the kids were around to celebrate 15 with Katie!  It was a fun evening!!!

Holly playing WCCC basketball.  Defense, defense!!! Goooooooooo Holly!

Getting ready for Christmas is serious business.  We made a delicious pizza concoction to help us as we dipped pretzels and Holly made the most adorable sock monkey's ever!!!!

The Taylor family invited us to join them for opening night of Star Wars. We got to dress up and walk around the theater greeting people and getting our pictures taken for the patrons to take home with them.  We were rewarded for our service by getting a movie ticket and some popcorn tickets to use on another night.  It was pretty fun and the kids did it another night without me!  So now we've got some movies and popcorn in our future!!!! Thank you Taylors!  It was fun!

Holly's birthday happened at the busiest time of the year!!!  Katie had basketball practice and the girls both had a piano recital starting at 6 p.m.  So with hardly any time at all as our little family we celebrated at the recital!  Dawn Wright made sure to make Holly feel special and announce her birthday to everyone sang happy birthday to Holly and then gave her a cake!  Her very own cake!!!  Everyone played and sang really well and then we enjoyed some yummy treats made by Sister Wright. Not our traditional birthday but special all the same!!!  All the kids are now teen-agers or older!!!!  How did this happen?!?!?!  

It has been a super busy October, November and December.  Katie has kept us hopping as she completed the freshman volleyball season and then tried out and made the freshman basketball team.  She has practices every day before or after school for a couple of hours.   In addition she did marching band, jazz band, hope squad, national honor society and continued playing piano for seminary and young women's and attends young women's (2nd counselor) at church.  She goes to school early every morning for band and stays late every day.  I always feel like she is moving out in the morning and moving back in at the end of the day.  The schedule she keeps is pretty rigorous.  She managed to get through first and second quarter with all A's and probably one B in biology (which she is really not pleased about -- she was trying to be valedictorian).  Holly also stays busy - also scoring all A's in school both semester.  Holly has joined robotic...