Sweetest of Occasions

Summer is coming to a close. We will miss it dearly! We needed one more celebration, one last cool evening, in the shade. With pink, and sparkle, enchantment and beauty. We needed some little girls, smiles and giggles. So, we sent out a call to several little ladies. They too were in need of a summer farewell. All dressed in their finest, we had a most elegant of evenings.

End of Summer Tea 2010

Real tea cups and saucers, long elegant spoons, pink lemonade (with sugar cubes to dunk), mini tea sandwiches, grapes, jello, cream puffs and strawberry cupcakes with butter cream frosting.

It was completely perfect and positively lovely.

The long and short of it

Abby has been BEGGING to have her hair cut short for over a year. "Up here, by my chin mom". I like her long hair. I like to make it beautiful and pretty and fancy. But she just kept asking and asking and asking. Sooo... I gave in. She won, and yesterday we had a salon day with her sisters. They got a trim (lucky for me they want to grow theirs out) and she got her wish.

BEFORE:

AFTER:

I like it. It is very cute on her. Paul thinks she looks too grown up now, but she LOVES it!!

Flutterflies

These two. Abby and Louisa. They are the best of friends. They have spent the last three days straight together, non stop. 10:00am to 8:00pm. Yesterday they made sure the attire was matching. They also spend the majority of the afternoon on a Butterfly hunt, net and all. It was a riot to watch them running up and down the street with that net. But they were victorious. Three times over, actually. At 5:00 in the evening they showed up at the door with their "favorite" and informed me that I MUST take a picture for the blog! And so:Louisa couldn't bare to keep them hostage, animal lover that she is. All were released in what I am sure was the most eloquent and heartfelt of ceremonies!

Good friends, butterflies, youth, and vibrant sunny days- we are really going to miss summer in a few weeks.

Reunited

My family reunion is SOOO much better than YOUR family reunion!!! Let me just show you why I EASILY came to this conclusion.

First point of proof: These two- my Grandma and Grandpa Griffiths, or "the Greats" as my girls call them. They are the reason we are here and why we all LOVE to spend time together. I never knew my "Greats" and the fact that my girls get to know them makes my heart SING!
Second point of proof: It was in Albion Idaho, Population 262. All the way there Olivia kept looking out the window and saying "Where ARE we?", like we were traveling on the moon or something- totally HILARIOUS!!
We stayed at an old College campus and we slept in renovated dorm rooms- FANTASTIC! Actually, it sounds funny but the facilities were really wonderful.Third point: Friendship Bracelets! Made by everyone, for themselves and for each other. My girls are still sporting them.
Fourth of all: Does your reunion come complete with Jump houses, Banana peel cars, Swimming pool, water slides, and a Bicycle built for two? I didn't think so, enjoy the following:
We also had an 18 team, double elimination Horse Shoe Tournament. The fact that it took three days to complete and you could cut the tension with a knife, makes ours reign supreme over any other! Paul and I were eliminated in the second round to my Dad and brother Brandon, but notice the pregnant Lady five weeks from delivery behind me- Yes, that would be Brooke, my cousin Taylor's wife and they were the champions- totally awesome!!! But Trace and Amber gave them a true battle, and for that we are completely proud.

Lets not forget the Banana Car races!! What, you don't have the joy of being put on uber creative teams and constructing Banana Cars to race down tracks? Yeah, you had better get on that one at your next reunion because it was SWEET!!!
My teams car didn't fair so well, but improvements have been noted for the inevitable rematch.

I do enjoy and love my Griffiths family- we top out around 80 people these days- and I really like when we get together and play for days, and stay up late sharing funny and silly things, and being competitive, and just plain having a fun time together!

If any of you now want to be adopted into our family I wouldn't blame you one bit!!!!

Albion 2012- we will see you then!!