Grammy B's Blog: Griffiths

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

My Santa Stud

I am going to pay dearly for this post.

This Summer my nephew ran in the "Spudman Triathalon" in Burley, Idaho. His wife titled the blog about it as "My Spud Stud". When Dave played Santa for the Griffiths family Christmas party I thought I should make a post about it and call it "My Santa Stud". Sorry to steal your idea Megan.

OK, now that you have fallen off your seats from laughter I will continue.

Dave says he wants to leave this life with anonymity, meaning he doesn't want to be on any blog or facebook page. He has even taped over his web cam on his laptop. Well, he has a lot of years of technology driven life ahead of him so I just don't see that happening. I thought I might as well get him started on the path to Internet stardom with his debut as Santa.

I thought he made a pretty good Santa, his cheeks were not quite rosy enough, and he was missing a cherry nose, an of course no pipe. But other than that he fit the Night Before Christmas Santa quite well. He really could have used some suspenders so his pants didn't fall down. We will have to work on that for next year. I don't think anyone heard the story about the hole in the toe of his boot. It was from burning it when he landed in a hot fireplace. And same thing with the patch on the seat of his pants!

Secretly I think he enjoyed it. He was pretty good with the kids, the "too big for Santa ones", the ones trying to pull off his beard, the one with the bottle, the crying one, and the ones that would not say a word! And he even danced, but no Santa Cat!

Thanks Chris for coming up with the outfit. I think the kids really liked having a visitor from the North Pole. Hopefully this will become a renewed tradition at the family party.

Anyway, I guess when you get to be our age and are as out of shape as we are being married to a Santa Stud is a pretty good thing! I wouldn't trade him for anything!

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Griffiths Family Christmas Party

The Griffiths family Christmas party is always a highlight of the year. This year was no exception. We had it at Floyd and Alison's home in Cove. There was yummy food, the traditional "program", a fun white elephant gift exchange, and a visit from the man from up North, yes, Santa Clause (aka Uncle Dave- if his figure doesn't fit the mold he is the farthest North in attendance). We are starting on the next generation (the great grandchildren) for the program and it is a little rocky, a lot of them are still kind of young to get the idea of performing. But we had a great showing- Floyd and Coleman did a great guitar/singing number, Katey played the piano, Caleb and Noni sang, and Candace and Jared read us a story. I think I missed the rest as I was helping Santa. If I counted right there were 43 there- Grandma & Grandpa, the 4 siblings and their spouses, 19 grandchildren (including spouses), and 14 great grandchildren. I think the sad part is that so many of the grandkids live out of the area and are not able to come. We miss you all!
Thank you to all who brought food or helped in anyway. Especially thank you to Grandma and Grandpa for being the reason we all get together and for the cards and treat bags (I believe with the help of Christine). Hope to see you all again next year and maybe even more of you!
I panicked that I missed one of the kids sitting on Santa's lap, I counted 14 greats there and only had 13 pictures, then I realized Jackson was over 12. We really should have had him and Jed sitting on Santa's lap too! I also missed a picture of Candace with Santa getting the bag for her "angel". Sorry!