Christmas Eve

This year Christmas Eve was very low key but VERY busy for mom and I.  We had to do all our grocery shopping for the next few days, pick up the Honey Baked Ham and stop at Starbucks for a boost of energy :)  Anderson probably could have used a boost too since he was recovering from their sleepover with their friends the night before and slept through a lot of the festivities... Karoline wanted to make reindeer cookies so daddy was in charge of that... they ended up being so cute!  Mom made our traditional ruben sandwiches, the kids opened their Christmas pj's, set out the milk and cookies for Santa and off to bed they went... 

Santa was very excited this year because there were no BIG toys to put together!  He listened to our request for small items only since there are 6 of us living in a fairly small house (seems REALLY small at times)...  I will say that Santa REALLY enjoyed the cookies... man they were GOOD!

 Merry Christmas to ALL and to all a good night...

Wellspring Christmas Services

Just wanted to put some pictures of Wellspring on the blog that I took during our Christmas services this year.  I love all our fun lighting and it is even more fun to photograph.  I'm so proud of TJ and his amazing band. It has been an interesting year for Wellspring with another change of location but so many blessings that came along with it.  We are sad though to see our amazing keyboard player, Paul, have to move... Praying for an amazing 2013 for Wellspring Church as we seek to see those who are far from God become passionate followers of Jesus Christ! 

TJ's amazing band... Brandon (baby's daddy) , Stacie (with baby Graylen inside), Jermey (lighting), Jared, John, Paul (so sad he's leaving), Nick, Parker, and TJ...

Christmas On Ice

 Karoline wanted to go to Christmas On Ice so bad and we have a friend who works there and got us tickets.  We took our friend Caroline with us!  The kids just loved it so much and it was very festive :)

Visitors!

We got hooked up with a beachfront condo once again because we had special guests come in town.  TJ's Uncle Darren and cousin Alexander drove to MB from Orlando as their 1st stop on their "tour to see family"... It was a great few days and we were so excited so spend the time with them.  

Anderson and Karoline enjoyed playing with Alexander... Anderson specifically loved wrestling with him.  It was such a great start to Christmas break!  

 The Goff Men

Attempt At Art

My friend Amy planned a fun girls night out for a different way to get together at Christmas time... We went to Wine and Design and attempted to paint a Christmas design...

Amy and I working hard on painting...

Final product... It's for sale if you want to buy this masterpiece :)

Very fun night... thankful for girls nights out :)

House Plans...

In November we closed on this piece of land from the light pole on the left and the electrical boxes that you see on the right.  The neighborhood is Waterway Palms Plantation... 

 This will be our pond in the back yard...

We finalized a house plan (we think) and went to pick out the house exterior colors in early December and everything is getting close so we can submit the plans to the neighborhood board and wait on approval.  Once we get approval we can start building!

Right before Christmas dad and I rode by the lot and saw that the surveyors had come and I have never been so happy to see steaks in the ground!  I feel like slowly but surely we are making progress....  I think we are all ready for the ground breaking ceremony! :)

We have cute neighbors :)