Griff's first year as a Caveman!

Griff played tackle football for the first time this year.  His team struggled and he had to play line all season but he worked hard and had a fun time and made some new friends, so it was a good learning experience.

I couldn't be more proud of him!  He kept at it, struggled and learned and knows a lot more about the game and about what he's capable of doing - gotta love that!

Go Cavemen!!! (that is still really weird to me but gotta pull for my kid! :-))

5th Grade

I know it's totally cliche, but where is the time going?!?!  5th grade???  At least I finally got to take him to his first day of school for the first time in his life.  Go get 'em Griff!!!

Swimming with Griff

Kid cracks me up!

Big Griff's Basketball Pics 2013

This team is no good but Griff is doing a great job rebounding and hitting his outlet pass on D, and rebounding and putting the ball back up on O, so there's that :-)

Bobcats!

The Bobcats are currently in first place - top of the table - in U10 boys indoor soccer. We have 3 of the top 5 scorers in the league and an amazing goalie (Griff). Two more matches this season - I hope this picture doesn't invoke the Blogger Curse :-)

Crossfit Griff

Griff goes to Kids Crossfit at Ute Crossfit East Draper with Nick and Rebecca!

Here he's doing a WOD with 3 rounds max rep plate-holding front squats in 2 min and max rep lateral jumps in 2 min.

That'll get your heart rate up! :-)

Big Griff is 10!!!!

Happy Birthday Big Griff, I can't believe it's been 10 years!!!

 We made homemade pizzas - they were a big hit!

 Kimberly looking all home-maker-like.

 Some of the gang chatting while we wait for pizza to bake.

 All the kids (minus Kaja, she was sick) eating their pizza on the floor.

Griff Opening Presents.

Griff's Pokemon Cake. I'm hoping he's over this phase soon :-D

Griff gets his Bear

Big Griff is a Bear and he got some arrowheads and some red beads (not sure what those are for, I remember nothing about Cub Scouting). Still, I'm very proud of him that he's working at this and progressing. Nice job Griff!!!!

The Big Disney Trip '12

I took Griff to SoCal for a little Disney trip. I asked him a while ago what trip he wanted to take this year. I was hoping for Yellowstone or something but he went with Disney. I am nothing if not a dad interested in giving his son everything he possibly can. So, without further ado - some pics:






Driving through Beaver, these pics are a must have.



Arrival at Disneyland.  I think I was about 13 the last time I was here...



Space Mountain - Griff is hilarious.


The Railroad roller coaster in Disney, whatever it's called.  Pretty fun!


Tom Sawyer's Island


Hmmm, not many Disney pics, weird.  I'll see if I have more...on to California Adventure!


After Screamin California Coaster - not sure if he really liked it, then we did it again! :-D






Radiator Springs is awesome!


Luigi's Garage

Killer Red Rock backdrop to Cars Land, unbelievable!

Mater's Tractor Pull

The Real Lightning McQueen!

Disney Ears

Bug's life rides.

Golden Zephyr, I think.

Traverse Rock Climb in Wilderness Explorer's Course.

Tower of Terror - Griff looks truly sick - hahahaha.

Even after 2 days at Disney/California Adventure, beach day was Griff's favorite.  Silly bug.  But the kid can body surf and boogie board, loves the ocean!

LA Temple.

Grand Lux Cafe - Cheese Pizza and ranch - tired of having his pic taken I guess? :-D

Finishing off the trip with Gelato at the Bellagio, SO DANG GOOD!

There might be more, we'll see.  But all in all it was a GREAT trip.  The car ride was easy and we had a great time chit-chatting and playing traveling games and listening to roadtrip music and watching videos.  The time in SoCal was so fun, wish I could do things like this with Griff every week.

Next trip???  Again, hopefully Yellowstone or Yosemite or something cool like that...or Santa Monica, it's all good either way :-)

Cecret Lake

This has totally been the Summer O' Griff and I've been slacking on his blog posts. Here's a few pics from our hike to Cecret Lake.

3rd Grade Econ Fair

The kids were taught supply and demand but apparently weren't taught actual entrepreneurship. Griff's little buddy Trevor wasn't getting any sales so they wanted to partner up - which actually made a lot of sense - Trevor had the game to draw in customers and Griff had the prizes. They could have drawn more customers and both made the money they were after, but this wasn't allowed? Weird - at least they had the idea, so they saw the possibility - pretty good for 9 year olds.

Pirates Baseball

Griff's baseball team has been kin of streaky but Griff is a decent little player. Hits better than I ever did for sure!

He's somewhere in this pic:

Mothers Day

Griff made this string art at school, for his mom: