Christmas 2009

Brandi recently played the main character role in the musical "The Little Match Girl". The newspaper came to the dance studio and took this photo (and others) of her rehearsing.

These pictures and an article appeared on the front page of the "Arts and Entertainment" section that week.

Congratulations to our little star who's worked so hard this Holiday season!

Dad showing off our Florida snowman

The Loyd girls showing off the Christmas tree!

Lyssa singing..."I'm gonna wrap myself up for Christmas and mail myself to you!"

Hill girls getting Christmas dinner ready








Jason and Lyssa dance to Christmas music.



The kids get crazy as Shane sings and plays "Jingle Bells"

Alyssa made dad this great necktie for Father's Day

Lissa loves Florida flowers

Two sisters far apart in age.

The Loyd girls

The family caught off guard!

Brandi Bo Bandi!

Lissa relaxing at Meme's house

Don't even think about it sucka...I'll bust you up!

Halloween 2008

This is the new ham-bone in the family. Lissa is the craziest little kid you'll ever meet. She makes funny poses anytime someone sticks a camera in front of her!

This is from her Halloween party at church Thursday night. Amber and Brandi both wore this outfit when they were 3 years old.

Lissa just had to be "Tinker Bell" this Halloween...she couldn't sleep the night before because she was so excited!

Brandi at Busch Garden's Howl-O-Scream. This was after one of the shows.

Brandi and her friend in a Hula Hoop/Dance contest...you can't really see in this photo but lots of teenagers were getin' down to the loud thumpin' music!

Brandi after the crazy clowns show.

Brandi at the beach!

Brandi and her friends just before they head out for Halloween night!

North Carolina vacation 2008

The family finally got off to our yearly vacation to the southern mountains of North Carolina. Our first stop was at aunt Shaleen’s were we pickup Brandi. She has been staying with Shaleen over the Summer. We stopped by a local swimming spot called "The Trash Can".

Me posing at the "Trash Can falls".

Lissa on one of her many swimming spots…this was at "Sliding Rock"

We later traveled back to our condos in Cashiers North Carolina. We found a cool spot that we could go down these waterfalls. This is me and Dad getting ready to go down. We spent all day here…lots of fun.

Dad found some Blackberries on one of our hikes…yes, we ate them!

Bru Bru in downtown Cashiers with her boyfriend

We visited the South Carolina Fish Hatchery. This was a bridge to the hatchery.


Lissa had lost of fun feeding the fish and watching them jump all over!

Lastly, on our way home we visited the famous Biltmore house.

July 4th

Thursday night we went to the park and watched the city fireworks. It was a pretty big show with thousands of people showing up. That next morning (July 4th) we got up early and went to church where they had a flag ceremony and a big pancake breakfast. We left from there and went straight to an early movie showing of Wall-E. Shaping up to be a big weekend already!

Lissa told aunt Lisa how excited she was about the fireworks show from the night before so aunt Lisa went out and bought two big boxes of fireworks so we could have our own little show Lissa could participate in. We had our Bar-BQ dinner that evening and went outside to get started. Lissa tore through the box!

These are'nt as loud as the ones last night...what's the problem!?

Oh, you have to light them....aaahhhhhhHHHHHHH!


Small but just Lissa's size.

E-ba wanted to add a little excitement so she lit more than one at a time.


Mom getting in on the action as well!


E-ba checking out her work :-)


Lissa keeps her distance.




E-ba gets a little crazy with the fireworks!

Checking out the last ones of the night....we miss you Bru-Bru girl!!!!

We've been trying and trying to get Lissa potty trained. We asked her what she wanted as a reward if she did it and she said "I want a big day at the Zoo!" She’s been doing real good so, off we went to the Lowery Park Zoo. She was so excited its all she talked about all week. We packed up for a big day and off we went!

Inside Lissa was off! Hurry up come on, come on this way. We gotta see the monkeys!!!

But we were side tracked by the really bright Flamingos

I'm having so much fun I can't stand it!

Lissa wasn't to sure about being in the bird area...flying all around her head and stuff!

Trying to get her to touch the sting-rays...NOPE...she wasn't havin' any of that

Yep, we live in Florida...If seen alot of these animals