The Griffith Family

pictures

2010-06-08T23:04:00.000-07:00

If you've never edited photos, you should. It's pretty fun. I've seen some people go nuts with it and add all kinds of things to the pictures. But, I just like to enhance the photos a little. I use a website called Picnik.com. It's free, and I can save my pictures to my computer, then order digital prints from Walmart. Here are a few of my favorites. Also, my very first blog post was edited with picnik too.

Mark

Aunt Dana and Uncle Egg

2010-06-01T18:58:00.000-07:00

What's the best thing about about Las Vegas?

Baby Mark....and trash trucks!! Greg and I got to go and visit our nephew Mark. He just turned two and we haven't seen him very much. It was fun to catch a glimpse of his personality. We had a great time!

Mark Senior gets great joy out of giving his little buddy ice cream. This is one of several videos of Mark eating ice cream, given to him by his daddy.

Inside Mikey's brain

2010-05-03T08:48:00.000-07:00

Each night, I am usually sitting in my bed studying. And, each night, I get little visitors. Jackson came in and fell right to sleep. Then Micah showed up. Here he is talking himself to sleep.He started out by saying that turtles can't swim, they'll just sink to the bottom. The video starts out dark until I can grab the lamp and shine it on him.

Noah's first book

2010-04-28T15:23:00.001-07:00

Noah is 4 and is learning to read. This video is a few weeks old. We sat down together and he read a stage one book called Smash Trash, a book about Wall-e. He did it by mostly remembering his sight words, his phonics are not "all there," but he was so proud. And so was I. Please ignore his poop announcement at the end. And make sure to stop by his new blog www.noahspizza.blogspot.com COMING THIS FRIDAY!!

Micah is a Baby

2010-03-28T18:47:00.000-07:00

Bye, Bo!

2010-03-13T19:45:00.000-08:00

We miss you.

Bo is a stray "silver lab" that followed us home over a year ago. We put up a new fence and gave him a new home. Last week I went to Dallas with the boys and Greg came home to find that Bo had not eaten his lunch and the side gate was closed but the chain had been removed. And Bo was gone.

We don't know if he somehow broke the chain loose or if someone came and took him away.

He is a sweet dog though and we will miss him. I hope he is okey.

Valentine Snow Day

2010-02-25T06:10:00.000-08:00

This post took a bit longer to get up than I had originally planned. I took pictures and videos though. And since those are few and far between lately, I have to post them! Jackson had a Snow Day on the Friday before Valentine's Day. I wish I could have gotten Jack and Noah's discussion about Snow angels on video. I couldn't hear them talking but I watched Jackson stand right in front of Noah doing "Jumping Jacks"- in slow motion. Then he would point to the ground, wave his arms around some more,point, wave,and so on. When his demonstration was over, he was all ready for NOAH to be the guinea pig and try it out. But, Noah didn't fall for it. So,Jackson caved and made his first snow angel. It was really cute. The rest of their play was spent throwing snow balls. Micah was getting over a cold. So, he and I stayed inside. Where we were safe!!

For Valentines Day- I had to make over 50 cookie lollipops. I was only going to make 12 for noah's class, but then Jackson wanted some to take in addition the big bag of candy he talked me into buying. As if I don't have enough homework already, they both had to make or decorate their Valentine box! What happened to using a paper grocery bag that they decorate at school!!!?? Jackson had a little girl ask him to be his Valentine. He told her "no." She asked him several times and when she said please he agreed. But only because she kept "bugging" him about it.

Mardi Gras

2010-02-08T09:25:00.000-08:00

I took the boys to the Mardi Gras parade. We didn't stay long because it was so cold. I made sure to bring an umbrella, which we strategically set on the ground. And it filled up with "throws" quickly. Micah had a great time playing with the "beans". The umbrella caught a bunch of Moonpies, which was a new discovery for him. I think he ate 5! . . .and I let him.

Christmas

2009-12-14T19:20:00.000-08:00

This video is a little long considering it's content but, it's Noah! For those of you who don't know, Noah is the blonde in the red shirt (his sleeves are unbuttoned!) and he looks every bit like his Daddy and nothing like his Mommy.

P.S. I want a Flip for christmas!

Thanksgiving 2009

2009-12-01T13:36:00.001-08:00

We had a great time on our Thanksgiving vacation! We spent a lot of time with grandparents and cousins, as well as being tourists!This trip inspired me to make fudge for some reason. This year we rented a cabin that was way up in the winding mountains of Pigeon Forge. It took us ten minutes to get up the mountain. I'm so thankful that it didn't snow because we would have been stuck. Here are a few pictures. I will post more soon. Happy Holidays everyone!!

Jack and Micah hiking at Grandaddy's

Micah got a new cap!

Noah At the Dixie Stampede

My favorite light display that took up the whole side of a mountain!

Sick, Sick, Sick, Sick, Sick

2009-11-09T07:48:00.001-08:00

Sorry, no pictures today.
We have all been sick this past week. It started out with the boys. They all seemed to have different symptoms of a sinus infection. So I took them all to the doctor(at the same time). I was proud of myself. They were all put on antibiotics and got to stay home from school.
Then, I got sick with what seemed to be the flu. Very gross! I can't remember ever being so sick. I'm extremely thankful that the boys have not shown any symptoms of the flu. I hate it when they vomit........on the floor, bed. etc.
And poor Greg has been SuperDaddy through the whole thing and he hasn't been feeling well either. He seems to have caught everything that we all had (even thought HE got his flu shot)and has managed to keep working. And "detailed" the house!!! The boy just won't take a day off.

We are looking forward to cub scout night at the Hockey Game and our trip to Gatlinburg in a few weeks.

2009-11-02T07:24:00.000-08:00

Halloween

We visited a few nursing homes and went trick or treating with Samuel. We had a great time

Jackson was IRON MAN, Noah was CAPTAIN AMERICA, Mikey was BUZZ LIGHTYEAR and Samuel was BATMAN!

Samuels visit

2009-10-20T21:06:00.000-07:00

This is a video that I made for Laura while she was in the hospital. Samuel is staying with me while she is gone and he is having a great time. I'm sorry for the poor quality but I'm having to use my "picture taking" camera because my real video camera does not have a usb.

LumberJack Festival

2009-10-14T08:48:00.000-07:00

This Weekend was the Lumberjack Festival. Jackson rode on the cub scout float in the parade and they all got to throw candy.

Mikey had a great time in the bouncy house!!

Noah waiting for Jackson to help him up....

Jackson catching some air on the bouncy slide.

Greg sang at the festival (look closely in the gazebo behind Mikey). Mikey had an orange snow cone while we sat and listened....that cowboy thought he was so cute.

you can click on the pictures to take a closer look :)

Mikey

2009-10-01T09:39:00.000-07:00

He rides this toy all over the house and will just run right into my ankles. I hate this toy!!

He found the pull ups and made his own outfit. He's holding a "skate board" that we made out of card board scraps.

I think the 2's have been our favorite age so far. Each little boy has been such a hoot at this age.

2009-10-01T09:35:00.000-07:00

Jackson FINALLY learns to tie his shoes!!!

2009-10-01T09:24:00.001-07:00

Camping with Poppy!

2009-10-01T07:57:00.000-07:00

Here are some updated

pictures of the boys. I hope to keep this up for everyone. They are growing so fast. Jackson is 7 and in second grade. Noah is 4; he goes to pre-K twice a week and Micah is 2. They are all so different and precious. They eat all of the time and are best buddies. I hope it stays that way. Greg and I hope to upload some videos of them.