First leg of Florida

We took our big family vacation in August and went to Florida. Our trip had two stages -- the first stage was to visit some of Kevin's family on the west coast of Florida. We made an adventure of driving around Hurricane Faye to arrive just after the storm and spent our first full day getting settled into our resort and the evening with family at the local "Drum Circle". The guys drummed and the girls did some belly dancing and hoola hooping in the middle of the circle created by the drummers. It was a great evening spent with family and their community. We also attended the baptism of the newest member of our family, baby Jackson Chaney!!!
Everyone loved the baby, he's sooo cute!!!
Mary Elizabeth couldn't get enough of him.
Our last evening there we enjoyed dinner in the hotel restaurant and just enjoyed relaxing as the sun went down on leg one of our trip. It was beautiful.
And we needed to rest up for the next part of our adventure in big fun!