Here Comes Santa Clause!

Well, Christmas is in December again this year, but this time, Katie and I are prepared! WAHOO! We just opened our Christmas club account and filled it up with our Christmas budget! So, our Christmas gifts are all paid for! How 'bout that! We paid off our first debt this month, bought car insurance for 6 months, & paid CA$H for our wedding pictures! We are ON THE WAY!
We have also been working hard on coming up with an easy way to budget. I'm a computer guy, so XL is awesome for me and I love it. She is a paper girl so notepads are her thing. So, we are using a note pad! ;) The thing is, no matter how great and nerdy we make the budget, if it doesn't work for both parties, then it winds up not working at all! When she shows me the notepad, I see an xl sheet with a cool "hand written" font! So, that is working for us.
Katie has been doing an absolute incredible job of tracking our expenses and accounting for EVERY dollar! This is such a blessing because now we are starting to have more realistic pictures of what it cost to live life as we need to. Every spare dollar is going to pay off our debt and I think we have decided to stay with Red Robin as long as they give us some better shifts and sections in the future.

Continue to pray for us. As you well know, finance is the number 1 "issue" for us, but that is because we are normal and just getting used to this "paying" for everything. Since we have enrolled in FPU We are becoming abnormal in that we are paying OUT - not IN! We will be done with the "payments" thing soon, so PLEASE KNOW - if we don't come and visit you, or don't go out to eat with you, or don't invite you over to cook out on our dollar, or don't want to pay for the gas that it cost to see your home - PLEASE KNOW that WE LIKE YOU. We are GETTING OUT OF DEBT!

Check out that sweet Java Script over on the right (that is the language used to make the picture change when you put your cursor on the links). I'm still learning, but this one was a little more difficult to write!

We love yall. Thanks for your prayers.