Great Strides 2012

Hi! I'm Kimber Anne Cluff! I am 3 years old and I have Cystic Fibrosis. I'm not letting it slow me down! I Love to run and ride my bike with my sister. I also love to camp and go fishing with my family. I am very diligent about taking all of my medicines morning and night! I can even swallow the BIG pills by myself now. I wear my percussion vest faithfully every morning and night for 30 minutes each. Sometimes it is hard, but I know how important it is to keep me healthy!

When I was diagnosed 18 months ago, at Primary Children's Medical Center, I was in the 5th Percentile for my weight. After learning the treatments I am in the 85th percentile!

I'm excited to have my very own team again this year called, Kimber Anne's FANS! My family wants to thank everyone for their support last year! I hope lots of my family and friends can come walk with me again this year! EVERYONE is welcome and encouraged to walk and/or donate!!

THANK YOU for helping me add more tomorrows to my life!! **In 1955 people with CF were not expected to live to the age of 5! Now the life expectancy is in the mid 30’s due to new research and treatments!!) Because of fundraisers like this, the CF researchers are coming closer and closer to finding my cure!

Love,

KiMbeR

(Daughter of Ben and Jill Cluff)

**Great Strides is the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's largest and most successful national fundraising event. This year, I'm walking in the Great Strides walk at the (2012 Southern Utah - Coral Canyon Elementary, Washington, UT), 04/28/2012. Please help me meet my fundraising goal! Your generous gift will be used efficiently and effectively, as nearly 90 cents of every dollar of revenue raised is available for investment in vital CF programs to support research, care and education.

**Donate to my team or join the walk at

http://www.cff.org/Great_Strides/JillCluff

or contact Jill Cluff 435-689-1858

Fishing at Lake Powell

We had an awesome day yesterday on Lake Powell with Grandpa Cluff.

Aunt Tammy kept little Cody for the day so I could go too.

It was a beautiful day and we had a wonderful time!

Holdyn loved riding on the boat and is getting pretty good casting her own line out to fish.

Here is Ben with the first bass of the day.

We had a couple of slow moments ;)

Holdyn took advantage of those moments by relaxing and eating cheeto's.

Here is one of their favorites....leftover waffles.

Happy FISHING!

Happy Easter!

We enjoyed a GREAT spring break and Easter Weekend with lots of friends and family! Holdyn and Kimber spent HOURS outside playing in the yard with our across the street friends, Kadence and Jalese. Here they are during their intense waterfight ;)

We had a wonderful Easter Sunday, started out with our new Easter clothes for the kids and headed straight to church. We are so thankful to have the knowledge of our Savior's resurrection and to understand the meaning of this wonderful holiday!

Here are a few shots of the kids in the backyard.

Holdyn is also super proud to show off her 2 missing teeth.

We spent Friday and Saturday in St. George with the Baker side of the family and enjoyed every minute! We had the Easter egg hunt in Grumpa's back yard.

Here is Adam showing his cool side.

Here is Cody, kicking it with Katrine while the kids play.

Kimber checking out her loot.

Brad, showing us how to eat the robin eggs while Katelyn fights her way to the eggs high up in the trees.

Annie grabbin the eggs from the clothes-line pole, while Holdyn waits for help on the other end of the clothesline.

We visited the Andrus family and Kimber got to do one of her favorite things..... Wash their car.

Holdyn also got to do one of her favorite things....play with baby animals....in this case the Andrus' chicks.

We also spent some time at Brad and Katrine's house. Of course the girls wanted to be in the pool the ENTIRE time. Holdyn was proud to show us that she remembered how to swim without a life jacket or arm floaties.

Kimber (below) kicking it in the hot pool....AKA hot tub.

We sure love spending as much time with our families as we can before we make the big move to Albuquerque next month!!!

Cody is 2 1/2 months old!!!

Little Cody is already over 2 months old! He is growing so fast and is such a good baby!

As you can see the girls LOVE their little brother!

Cody Joseph Cluff's blessing day

HERE HE IS!!! The MAN of the DAY! Our little

Cody Joseph Cluff was blessed yesterday, March 4, 2012,

by his daddy, Benjamin Joseph.

The blessing and church meeting went beautifully! Little Cody was a superstar.

He was happy the whole meeting. He knew something special was going on.

Here is our little family just before church.

Thank you Katie for the Paparazzi Jewelry...the girls won't take off their necklaces ;)

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After the meeting we invited family and friends to come to our home for a breakfast/brunch. We ended up squeezing about 75 people in and had a delicious meal...THANKS to all who helped!!

Here is Grandma and Grandpa Baker with Baby Cody!!

Here is one room full of people.

Avrie choosing a cinamon roll while Brad porks out on the breakfast burrito's.

Thanks Serena for helping serve up the breakfast.

Of course as soon as we walked in the door Holdyn was out of her dress playing cowgirls with Adri.

Here is little Mason with his mommy waiting to eat some good grub.

A few of the cousins out in the backyard enjoying their pancakes and fruit.

The pancake flippers....THANK YOU Joel and Adam!!

Sam and Katrina came down for the weekend.

Brigham, Andi, and Nolan enjoying the playroom.

A few of the family finding a place to squeeze in our house...yes they are in the laundry room ;)

Part of the line for the food.

The fun continues...

We've had some great outings the past couple of weeks. The weather has been crazy....snowing one day and sunny the next. We've been trying to take advantage of the nice sunny days and get out in the hills!

We went out horn hunting with our niece Annie. Kimber was the only one to find a horn. It was pretty windy so we didn't hike very long. But had a super fun time!

Kimber and daddy were hiking buddies and Holdyn and Annie were inseparable.

We also went out for a drive to gunsight.

Still not sure if the girls actually see anything in their binoculars, but they sure have fun looking through them!

We love it when cousins come over to play. Above is a great picture of Holdyn, Taylor, Emma, and Kimber being cowgirls.

AJ came over with his whole family to see new baby Cody. It was sure fun having them!

Holdyn also loves her cousin Adri...as you can see below.

Thanks to Anna and Alli, kimber got the manicure she'd been waiting for! Andi was also there and excited to get her nails done.

Here are the kiddo's waiting for the orange chicken to be ready! YUM!

AJ was a great helper with the raspberry Jello delish made by him and Martha.

Anna also LOVED to hold little Cody. She's a great babysitter. I think she almost has her parents into having another baby...hee hee.