Griffin Family

Holly joined Robotics this year.  They had two competitions at Dixie State University.  In robotics they are given a "robot" that they have to program to perform missions.  Each mission is worth points and they complete against other teams.  There were about 31 teams and the girls finished 18th. They had a lot of fun and learned a lot.

Katie and Holly are very talented musicians.  Katie plays alto and soprano saxophone and Holly plays trumpet and is starting to learn french horn. There have been several concerts this month along with county honor band for Katie.  They really enjoy their band time.

Had fun playing with the Robinson's kids (the Washington Elementary School Janitor's family -- Linda Hill's grandkids).  We've gone swimming and to movie in the park with them.  They have 4 little girls and they are fun to play with and match up well with our girls. 

Andy had a colonoscopy.  The getting there was rather unpleasant but not completely AWFUL -- not as bad as imagined any way.  Close, but not quite as bad!  And the results were great...Dr said Andy is the picture of colonic health and he doesn't need another test for 10 years!!!  Yeah!!! The microwave broke (after only 4 years, seriously?!  Boo G.E.)  The kitchen sat empty like this for about 3 weeks while we determined that the best course of action was just purchasing a new microwave.  Funny how dependent we are on microwaves.  The first day we had to melt butter and didn't quite know how to do it.  Ha ha.  Luckily Linda Hill was a life saver and loaned us her little microwave to get us through the month.   We see snow so seldom here in the Desert -- Here is what I think might be the whole of winter for us this year!  It was beautiful! Grandma found these cute Dallas cowboy pillows for Dallas and Andy a...