The Griffin 2010!!!!

I thought I would just post on all of our highlights this years.
Here it goes(attempting chronological order)...

OUR 1ST BIRTHDAY WEEK!!!!
My birthday is January 12th and Brady's is January 15th so we pretty much celebrated all week long .

HAPPY VALENTINES TO US!!!
THE BIKES!!!!
I SOLD THE GREEN MT BIKE SO THAT I COULD GET
THIS BEAUTIFUL CRUISER!!!!


WE BOTH GOT OUR ASSOCIATES DEGREES AT THE END OF SPRING SEMESTER. GO US!

YOUTH CONFERENCE!!

ONE YEAR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY! HAPPY DAY!!!
(I HONESTLY DON'T KNOW WHERE OUR ANNIVERSARY PICS WENT, SAD:( SO THESE WEDDING ONES WILL HAVE TO DO)
I LOVE THIS MAN SO MUCH I CANT STAND IT!!! STILL LOVIN EVERY MINUTE WITH HIM:)
THE LOVELY GARDEN WHICH WE LOVED!!

WE MADE SO MANY SMOOTHIES, JAMS, SYRUPS, FRESH MEALS AND MORE WITH OUR HARVEST. WE WILL MISS THIS NEXT SUMMER FOR SURE!

We had Lagoon Season passes and went multiple times which was a total blast!!! Made for great date nights:)

CALIFORNIA TRIP W/ THE FAM
BOSTON W/ BEN AND JENN FAMILY
WE TOUCHED BOTH OCEANS(ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC) IN THE MATTER OF ONE MONTHS TIME. CALIFORNIA THEN BOSTON!!! WE FELT SO COOL!

BRADY STARTED HIS ACCOUNTING INTERNSHIP WHICH HE LOVES AND IS VERY GOOD AT:)

AWESOME HALLOWEEN COSTUMES
I STARTED WORKING AT THE GEORGE E WAHLEN OGDEN VETERANS HOME WHICH I LOVE.

WE BOUGHT A CAR! HYUNDAI ELANTRA

WE HAD A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING AND VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!

WHAT A GREAT YEAR! IT WAS SO VERY EVENTFUL.CANT WAIT TO SEE WHAT 2011 BRINGS US! HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE:)

Merry Merry Christmas!!!!!!

(These pictures are from our family Christmas party. Everyone gets all dressed up,we have a nice dinner and Santa Clause comes. Its way fun)

Brady and I are super duper excited for Christmas...cant wait!
Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas cause we sure will.
Merry Christmas
Love,
US

First trip!!!

The other day Brady and I realized that we have never been to temple square together. So when Kade and his girlfriend Brooklin invited us to go with them our first trip to temple square together soon became a reality.
We had such a fun time. Here are all our fun pictures, we had to document this momentous night of our marriage.

Kade and Brooklin


On our way home we stopped at the gas station for hot chocolate and we found
THIS:
Can you believe how ginormous this rice krispy treat is... pretty exciting I know:)


We had such a memorable first trip ...Loved it:)

What shall we give?

In the spanish language:

Christmas

Mas=More

Translated= more Christ

Let us give more.

Merry Christmas to everyone:)

Yay Brady!!!

( Brady fell asleep on accident while we were babysitting, we couldnt find him and there he was sleeping on the couch in the other room. He always had so much homework.)

Another Semester down for my honey:) He has worked so hard this semester. This last week was finals week and he never stopped. Good job Brady!!!! So proud of you! Love ya;)

The Christmas Season

I just have to say that I love Christmas!!!
I love how everything smells, the beautiful sparkling snow outside, and being with family.
It seems like people are in a better mood and there is just so much excitement in the air.
It is truly The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!!!

In The Spirit of Thanksgiving

(Sorry the video picture is a little bit cut off, still learning how to put videos on here. But hey at least its there to watch right?!)

These are a few things I am so thankful for right now:
I am Thankful for the gospel in my life. I am thankful for the knowledge that my Savior loves me,and that he knows me. I am thankful That he knows what is Best for me and my life and is always by my side to help me whatever the situation may be.
I am so thankful for my husband Brady. He is my very best friend and is truly the most genuine person I know. I love that he is always happy and has a love for life. I love him and am so blessed to be his wife.
I am so thankful for everyday and the all the little blessings that I so often take for granted.
- sunshine on my face
- a warm home
- socks on my feet
- sweet treats
- smiling people all around
- The laughter of children
And many many more...

Brady's first post on this blog:

The end of Brady's last post on this blog.

"Sister Knowledge"

At young Womens tonight we were all just chatting. One of my lovely beehives brought a scrapbook she made of various young women activities( camps, youth conference, weekly activites) for her knowledge project for personal progress. We were all looking through it and commenting on how nice it looked. In all of this talk about "Knowledge" projects and such she turned to me showing me that the scrapbook binder was green(knowledge value color) and said:" Sister Knowledge, look at my binder Its green!" I was so flattered,these were words I never thought I would hear in my life. We all laughed really hard and I am now referred to among my Beehives as Sister Knowledge. I am feeling pretty knowledgeable right now, which probably wont last long at all. But might as well soak that in while I have it right?
Oh how I just love my young women! They are all so beautiful.They are teaching me all the time and are amazing girls.

Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life, because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.

-Sheri Dew

Halloween...What a weekend!

Griffin Party!!!!
The Griffin family had a Halloween party at Brady's parents house on Friday night. We had soup for dinner in cute bread bowls(I wish I had pics of all this). Then we played some funny games and watched an episode of Thunder Cats. Here is everyone all dressed up:

Brady and I were dressed as Ellie and Carl from the Disney Pixar movie UP. We were them when they were little kids.



We have been anticipating these costumes for just about a year now! I bring you ...
THE THUNDER CATS!!!!!
I really didnt know what the Thunder Cats were until last year when the kids starting planning what they were going to be for Halloween. If you dont know, Its an 80's cartoon.
They all looked so great! Kati's kids were so excited. We even got to watch the Thunder Cats on TV that night at the party.

Here is our Cute witch Lori with the bad guy Isaac.

Here is Tanner's girlfriend, Megan. She was a Richard Simmons Success Story.
We had such a fun time! For dessert Kati made some yummy pumpkin whoopie pies!!

Riley Party!!!!

On Saturday night my family had a party at my sister Liza's house. It was also very fun. we ate soups for dinner and played some good games with the family.
Here are all the wonderful costumes:

Here we are again!

Here is Fred and Wilma Flintstone!!! Mom and Dad looked so cute! And Dad has got his black hair back, nice touch.

Here is Victor Crumb and Hermione Granger and their cute little Monkey.

Logan and Deborah, cutest skeletons I have ever seen!

Cleopatra and The Rocker!

I didn't get any good pictures of Liza's kids because they were trick or treating in the rain and got all wet and had taken their costumes off by the time we saw them cause they were freezing.

Here is the gang! Grandma Melba came so that was really fun to have her there.

Brady and I made a pumpkin vegetable tray. We were pretty proud of it too:)

What a fun weekend!

Any shoe lovers out there?

Do you love shoes? Well just minutes ago I found an amazing website(im sorry I dont know how to link it on here), that you should go visit immediately! Its whatapair.com. There are all sorts of shoes,boots and flats. They are at very much reduced prices, some not so much, but others are like five or ten bucks! Its probably on my top 15 favorite websites now. I may be just saying this because I am tired and so excited at the moment but what is there to lose,go check it out!

Full of Fun Friday

Last night was a super fun night. Brady and I went to Lagoon for a couple of hours right when it opened. We went to some of the frightmares haunted houses and went on a couple rides. We also got to go to a hypnotist show that they had going on there, it was hilarious.
Afterwards our friends Jace and Tiffany came over and we carved pumpkins. I forget how much fun it is.
Jace and Tiffany brought over a brand new electric knife. We all thought it would be perfect for carving pumpkins. After Jace cut the top off of his pumpkin(which took about ten min), the poor knife had done its duty. It was burnt out, it was pretty funny cause they were so excited to use it.

Can you tell who's amazing pumpkin this is?

And this one?

What artistic boys!!!


Here are all of the pumpkins all lit up!!


Jace and Tiffany

We know you love RSL Brady, you dont have
to get all excited about it:)

We cooked our pumpkin seeds. We put butter and cinnamon sugar on them. They were actually pretty good.
What a fun night!

I did it ! Whoop de doo:)

So Brady and my brother Logan play on a co-ed soccer team every Monday night. They have loved every single minute of it. Well I am a true fan of theirs, I bring my chair and occasionally some treats. Its really fun to watch them. Like I said its really FUN to WATCH!
Tonight was their last game of the season. About an hour before the game we found out that two of the girls were not going to be able to make it to the game. There has to be equal number of guys to girls on the field. Two girls missing really equals four less vital players on the field. So of course I was talked in to playing with them and we called a lady in my ward who came and played too. Mind you I dont play soccer, never really have. They told me that if I just stood on the field I would be doing my job.Some people in this league are sort of "dirty" players( at my perspective) so I was scared. It was really quite funny, you could tell I was not a soccer player. I had longer shorts on with shin guards and super long soccer socks , you could not see a bit of my legs and I dont own cleats. So all together I think some of the people on the team were a little worried by the looks of me.
Logan just told me to do what he did, when he moved up so did I etc. I was so nervous!My parents were there, they were not about to miss this once in a lifetime game. I did have some pretty decent blocks though. I think I may have even contributed to the team. Brady said he was really Proud of me and that I exceeded his expectations. When we got home he was so happy and just kept saying; " you played soccer with me, I cant believe it!". Well yep I did , ha !

Sydney and Troy!!!

My best friend Sydney got married to Troy Teeples this last Thursday on September 16,2010. They were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple.It was such a beautiful day. They are so cute together, I am so happy for them.

She was such a beautiful Bride
Oh what a happy couple:)
Brady and I just love these two.

More, more, more.... and more! Lovin it!

Today while I was at work Brady picked:
36 peaches
16 tomatoes
4 cucumbers
17 pears
7 plus cups of blackberries
8 lbs of potatoes

This may not seem like alot to some but to us it was pretty exciting!!!
So tonight we went ahead and tried to preserve them.

First you boil the peaches for about 15 seconds, them you peel off the skin:
Here is my love peeling away:)


Then you slice them and put them in bags sealed tightly and place them in the freezer immediately.


And tada! you have preserved the peaches!!!

We froze some of the tomatoes too, who knew you could do that? Crazy!! Griffins taught us that trick!!!

It didnt sound too fun when we started out but it turned out to be a blast with Brady. Of course, everything is super fun with him:). We would have races to see who could peel their peach the fastest it was pretty funny!!