A few more pictures from the ball game~

Max singing to his teammates-
you gotta hear that soprano!

Grandma and Dad

The Boys: Dad, Max and Isaac

Max's Basketball Game Last Night

Last night, Max had one of his last basketball games for this season. He plays for a Christian school in Charleston. I couldn't go, but I heard it was an exciting game! They lost by only 1 point in overtime. Here are some pictures: Max and two of his biggest fans....

Isaac and Eva!
Max and his teammate Austin


Check out the jump shot!

Verizon in Oakland!!!

During George's visit last weekend, we were able to conquer most of our to-do list for the wedding...tuxes, registering, ring shopping and checking out some very cute furniture that I found (in my humble, unbiased opinion:) We also went out for sushi at Ko Fusion, one of his favorite restaurants in Champaign and went to see the movie, "Amazing Grace."
We had quite a few laughs over the weekend, but this one takes the cake. Verizon cell phones do not work in Oakland. Period. We used to have one and found it very inconvenient. For instance, my Dad would be harvesting behind our house and my mom could not reach him via phone even though she could see him in the combine. In order to use the phone, we would have to go approximately 2 miles out of Oakland in any direction and would get perfect reception. Well anyway, George has a Verizon phone and never gets reception here, but with our homemade "antenna" (aka. salad tongs), he was able to get a couple bars and even make a call. This is something that could be tried at home. Never know, it may work!

Isaac Andrew and Evangeline Rose

What a sweetie!
Wow Isaac...big muscles!

Thought for the Day

Thank you Lord, for saving my soul.

Thank you Lord, for making me whole.

Thank you Lord, for giving to me

Thy great salvation so rich and free!

18 Months in the Life of Samuel Justice Goff

Counting down...

Only 114 more days until June 16th!

I'll be uploading Krista and George's wedding website over the weekend. Check out www.kristaandgeorge.com in a couple of days!

Boys and Balls

Justin, Dad and Max have been playing on a basketball league in our town this winter. Samuel loves to come watch the games!

Come meet Nick Vujicic in November!

Two weeks ago, we had the opportunity to meet Nick Vujicic and we found out yesterday that he is going to be able to come to our father/son camp in November. I copied the following from Nick's website:

"It says in James 1:2 - "Consider it pure joy, my Brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds." ....To count our hurt, pain and struggle as nothing but pure joy? As my parents were Christians, and my Dad even a Pastor of our church, they knew that verse very well. However, on the morning of the 4th of December 1982 in Melbourne (Australia), the last two words on the minds of my parents was "Praise God!". Their firstborn son had been born without limbs! There were no warnings or time to prepare themselves for it. The doctors were shocked and had no answers at all!"

Visit Nick's website, www.lifewithoutlimbs.org, or if you are interested in coming to the camp, visit www.fathersoncamp.org

Rosy Cheeks!

Eva's cheeks were very rosy after she came in from sledding!

An unhappy flower girl!

Update on Our New Niece or Nephew...

We're officially half way to meeting Meg and Justin's new baby!

Here's a picture of Megan at 20 weeks.

Only 20 more weeks until July 4th!

They decided to wait to find out what it is, so write a comment to cast your vote on whether it's a boy or a girl!

More California Pictures

Leah and Krista in our dressing room
The cathedral's programming coordinator, Neva Penner, with the quartet.

Left to right: Meg, Krista, Leah and Therese

Meg took these two pictures when we were in California and I just copied them from her blog, www.goffstersblog.blogspot.com.

My little flower girl~

I am making 4 bridesmaids dresses for my wedding and two flowergirl dresses. After today, I only have three more to go. Eva's dress is as finished as it is going to get for a while because I'm not sure how much she is going to grow in the next 4 months.

Happy Girls!

Who Built the Ark?

Last Wednesday, before leaving for CA, Evangeline and I were making cranberry/apple bran muffins to go along with the soup we were having for dinner. We were chit-chatting when she suddenly broke into song..."Who built the ark..." I thought some of the words she was singing were a little odd, but didn't say anything until she had completed singing, "Who built the ark? No one. No one. Who built the ark? No one built the ark." I then asked her, "Eva, who built the ark?" She answered cheerily, "Nobody!" After a few moments of silence she said, "Actually, Santy Claus built the ark." "Really, who told you that?" (we don't even do the Santa stuff at Christmas) "Mommy did." Hmmmmm... I think my chatty little baker is also an unknowingly confused theologian. :)

Future ballerina?

Performance Pictures

Here are some pictures from our performance. We played three songs at both services. This will be aired on the Saturday, February 24th and Sunday, February 25th. Click the link below to find a TV listing in your area:

http://www.hourofpower.org/calendar/tvlistings.html

More California Pictures....

Dad and Mom outside the hotel
Krista, Grandma and Leah
Inside the Crystal Cathedral
Sunglass Shopping...

Meg, Leah, Mom, Therese and Grandma

With the sleeping Lego man

Meg, Leah and Therese

Crystal Cathedral

On Friday, our quartet headed to Los Angeles for our performance at the Crystal Cathedral. It was a great trip, and the warm weather was a welcome change from 8 inches of snow here in Illinois!

Our parents and grandparents joined us on the trip, and on Saturday we headed over to the cathedral to check out where we would be performing the following day. Above is the quartet- Krista, Therese, Leah and Megan- under the sign outside the cathedral.

A view of the cathedral, the bell tower and sunny California skies!
















The four of us girls with our parents outside the cathedral.

Random Pictures!