Fishing for Christmas!

This year we got a visit from our Michigan family. Nick's mom and dad came down to warm sunny Florida for Christmas. We got to spend Christmas day opening gifts and fishing. We all had fun catching SeaTtrout, Mangrove Snapper, Weak fish, and many others. The Christmas catch of the day was a 10lbs 24inch Black Drum that I reeled in at the last min. Hope you had a Merry Christmas and may you have a wonderful New Year!!

Lights, luz, la lumière!

This is the first year that we were able to decorate the exterior of our home for Christmas. Every year we will add to our collection and next year, we are hoping to add some icicles to the mix. :)

Our new meter has arrived

We have been off grid for about a month now and our solar is working great. We have been waiting for our electric company to officially switch our meter to allow us to sell electricity to them. This means that any electricity we do not use, we will be receiving credit ($$) for. We got home the other day and happily received notice that our meter had been switched! The second picture shows us selling 6 kwh. :)

The tree is up!

This year we went for a 7 foot Fraser Fir and were very pleased with our choice. Christmas is just around the corner and we are excited to celebrate another holiday in our home. :)

We're Back and Blogging!

Hello! We had some technical difficulties that left us computer less but we are back and blogging. November was a great month. Lots of fun and exciting activities happened.

First of all, we did complete that solar project in time for our rebate and we are at the moment off grid now! Nick did an amazing job and God definitely had his favor on the project.

Secondly, we got a chance to visit our families before Thanksgiving. Due to some work scheduling conflicts, we chose to take separate family vacations for the first time. I went to Texas for Veteran's weekend and Nick went to Michigan for the week of Opening Deer season. Even though we were not together for the trips we each had a wonderful time visiting our families and enjoyed some much needed cold weather. Nick did shoot 3 deer while in Michigan so we've enjoyed adding deer meat to our menu. ( Nicks is pictured preparing to grind some deer meat.)

Last but not least, we had a really nice and delicious Thanksgiving. We got invited to participate in a delicious and family filled Fryauff Thanksgiving dinner. We had a lot to be thankful for and were blessed to celebrate family with great friends! Thank you again Chris and Erin!!  :)