It Snowed in Florida!

Woke up to find some little patches

of snow in our back yard.

Haven't seen snow here in Florida

for a long long time!

January 2nd ~ Cliff's 50th Birthday

Turning 50 is a pretty big deal but this year

we weren't able

to have a big 50th birthday party for Cliff. Most everyone was still away for the holidays. Marie was trying to get a party together for him but she got sick and was in bed on his birthday. The rest of the family were afraid to come over in fear they would get what she had! He did have cake and a few presents to open. Maybe

we will just have to have a big 51st party for him!

Holiday Dinner

We had our holiday dinner with Nana and Papa

Share a few days late this Christmas. They were

snowed in at their home in North Carolina for almost a week and 4 of those days they were with out electric! Just glad they were able to get here safely.

Nana and Papa share brought back paper crackers from England and we popped them before our meal and put on these silly hats that come out of them. It has become a tradition in our family to do this.

Brad and Kelly are spending Christmas out west with the rest of the family and

Nicole and Mikey were in Maryland visiting his parents for the holidays. We had our Christmas

with them before they all left.

Christmas Morning 2009

It was a

very quite Christmas for us this year.

Everyone except Marie,

Michael and Colton went away for the holidays.

Bella Blue's 1st Birthday Oct. 2nd 2009

We had a cookout Friday night in honor

of Bella's birthday.

Clayton Bradley's Blessing Day

Clayton's blessing was really nice. Clayton

wore Brad's outfit that he was blessed in almost 29 yrs ago.

He almost didn't fit in it! He is quite a chunk!!

They waited to have him blessed

since Brad has been on a ship for several months off the

coast of Lousiana.

My parents weren't able to attend due to my father

having cateract surgery.

I know they would of been there otherwise .

(My dad is doing well).

Other family members weren't able to be there due

to summer vacations plans and then the other half of my family

lives out west now. We missed you guys!

So these pictures are posted especially

for all those who couldn't be there.

The rest of the day was spent out at Kelly's parents

eating lots of food and having fun.

The Hoki Bunch

Robb and

Amanda

took the

kids

to a

Botanical

Garden.

There are

just so many

beautiful places

to visit out west.