And She Is A Yeller...

A short clip of Baby G yelling!! She does this a lot :) She almost never cries.. just YELLS!!!

And We Have A Calf!!

It's a heifer, our first one!, full story to come soon.

And They Will Know We Are Griggs' By Our

CAR SEATS!
Several people have made the comment "WOW that is a lot of car seats!!" and it is :) Four car seats and two boosters! Papa needed to haul some neat stuff, we will cover that in another post, so we took the opportunity to bring them in and clean and 'fix straps' so they're good to go again!

Baby G Pictures 3.5 Months Old.

Baby G is 3.5 months old. We got some great pictures of her this week and I wanted to share them :) 

She loves to chew on her fingers.. no teeth yet but the way she drools and chews I wonder if she won't get some soon! J3 got his 1st at 2.5 months for a couple of weeks then it reappeared about 3 months later so it's possible she could be teething.  

I love this one! She looks wind blown with her bib all crooked. I love the color of this sleeper on her but, as you'll see below, her feet tend to escape. 

 Baby G has a CAPE!! Oh wait it's her bib on backward!! 

Umm... I WILL chew on this yummy thing.. I WILL!! 

WHAT IS THAT THING!??

Maggie :)

New Life... Welcome Riata!!

Some good friends of ours had a new baby :)

Congratulations C and R!! You too big brother W :) 

 Welcome to the world little girl!! We love you already!! 

~Sourdough Starter~

I found a recipe for Amish friendship bread starter in a book I recently finished which made me remember that while I had my AFB starter years ago I really enjoyed it. I also learned that a AFB starter is a sourdough starter and there is a web page with TONS of recipes on it for just about everything you can think of to make with AFB starter! SO I followed the recipe and made my very own sour dough starter!! I'm still not totally sure that I didn't kill it this morning when we made sourdough pancakes with it and I'm hoping it will bounce back as I forgot to feed it before I took out the 4 cups of starter I need to make the pancakes. I did remember after and did feed it then so hopefully it is still alive! Here is the link that I found with the recipe for the starter and the things you can make with it. I fed my starter on white flour to start it off but I`m going to slowly change it over to whole wheat as that is what we use most for pancakes etc. I keep mine in a 1 gallon plastic bag in the kitchen which works well for storage without having to worry about spilling or contaminating it.  I can`t wait to see what I can all do with it :) This morning we did the pancake recipe II on the site above and we thought it was a bit too sweet and the pancakes themselves were really soft and mushy and did not flip well at all. I think we will keep looking and see what other recipes we can find. I`d love hints :) Or recipes!! Just leave a comment on the bottom or email me!! 

~Dream A Little Dream Of Spring~

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 Last week we got about 10 inches of snow.

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The days we didn't get snow we got beautiful sunshine. 

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The kids went out and enjoyed it as much as possible. 

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When the sun comes out it rains off the roof. 

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Reminding us that spring will come again soon. 

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R's Birthday is soon..

<3 <3 <3 <3

She is very excited to be 4.

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She thinks the snow should be gone by her birthday.

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It will not be. 

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A year or two ago we had snow on MY birthday..

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It's in the middle of May.

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I know I'm not the only one.

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wishing for green grass.

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I know there are more people out there.

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Also wishing for green well... 

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ANYTHING!!

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This week we hope to see some green..

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We're going to plant some starts and dream of a world filled with green.

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Green Trees, Green Grass,

 Green Green Green!! 

We are going to water them and remember

                                                                              spring rainstorms, 

                                                         beach days, 

                                                     lightening and thunder.

flash BOOM flash BOOM flash BOOM

We're going to watch for the tiniest shoot of green and rejoice!!

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Not Something You See Everyday!!

We meet a friend and her family in 'the city' today for coffee! We have 6 kids, they have 4! Grade one math tells you that equals 10 kids!! Ten BLOND hair BLUE eyed kids!!  J is the oldest at 8! They have a girl, we have 3. They have 3 boys, we have 3 boys. The two littlest boys are 5 months apart and have the same jackets... they are also both blond, they both have blue eyes.. one is a little taller then the other. They look very much like twins :) SUPER CUTE!! They both sat in high chairs and looked cute and tried not to look at each other.. shy stage :)  Baby G got passed around a bit between the 4 adults. The other 7 children shared two little tables and a box of treats.. Everyone took their share and only their share. Afterwards they each got one more as a reward for good behavior! They were all super good!  We got quite a few looks apparently it's not every day you see 10 kids sitting, chatting and eating together!! Someone asked Mrs. K if it was all one family she smiled and said.. TWO!!! lol. We had quite the train going in and out!! R got confused in the parking lot and followed the wrong family.. but it was OK.. We parked almost side by side. Separately we get a lot of looks.. together we got even more. We got a lot of looks :) It was fun to get together with them and I'm pretty sure fun was had by all :) Next time maybe we'll get a few pictures in :) Mrs. K's blog is HERE and I have to say it's not everyday you can take 10 kids out for a snack, still keep your sanity, and get in a bit of a chat as well :) Thanks for the visit Mr and Mrs. K and kids :)

Baby G.. More Pictures :)

Reading a book :) I love her little bald spot :) 

She is such a little doll! A friend called her Muffin today and it suits her! New nickname? Possibly! :) Haha or maybe not I just remembered Mr. B likes to tease Mrs B with that name... hmmm.. I bet there is a story there!! 

The best picture I have so far of her smiling.. when she REALLY smiles she sticks out her tongue but she's pretty sure the green light on my camera is evil!!