Christmas in Florida

Christmas at Our House





the youngest Franklin, baby Meredith born 23 days ago - nothing like sleeping through Christmas!



Brielle, Natalie, and Meredith
Christmas 2006

Family and friends enjoyed the meal

Natalie enjoyed scaring Great-grandpa Franklin with the singing Rudolph!


What a thrill to have our family together this year for Christmas in Florida! My wife's mom flew in from Texas last week, and my mom and dad rode down from SC on Friday with Josh and his family. We opened presents Christmas day at 11:30 with Natalie, Meredith, and Brielle the center of attention! For the afternoon Christmas dinner, we invited my sister and her family to join us and altogether we had about 21 people here, counting the babies. We enjoyed the fellowship (in spite of the rain storm) and food with lots of ham, turkey, dressing, sweet potato casserole, corn on the cob, Irish potato casserole, mac & cheese, rolls, and lots of dessert - well, you get the picture! We finished the day with a rousing game of "Apples to Apples".