Kindergarten Week

So it finally came. Kindergarten week. I was lucky enough to be able to use a week of vacation to take the time to spend with Jacob this week. His teacher is Ms. Crump and so far he loves it. I was afraid that since he is such a sensitive kid he would have cried but I was the only one who did. LOL.

I hope he continues to love school and do well. I hope that we can teach him to be a nice kid, accept everyone for their differences. 

This is Jake with his new haircut. I think it makes him look so much older.

Jake and I took Monday and went on a trip to Deep Gap, NC to Cascade Falls where we saw a big waterfall and had lunch.

The first day pictures.

Love this one!

My big boy at his desk:)

After the first day we went to Di'lishi to have some frozen yogurt to celebrate.

After his first day he said it was hard work writing 2s and 3s. He told my mom on the phone he went and saw the gym where they will have "P.G."? he meant P.E. which was funny telling my mom who use to be a P.E.  teacher before I was born. 

I love this age, that we can do so much with each other yet he is still my little boy.

Today and tomorrow I am helping out our friend and neighbor who is also a teacher by taking Sydney to school with Jake since Emily has to be at school at 7:20 for the first week and has to drop off her other daughter at the babysitter. 

Josh is off to Montana tonight for the first game of the season. No playoffs this year since we are changing divisions but it will still be a great season, we play GEORGIA on Nov. 9th which I am excited about. 

Off to Atlanta this weekend to spend time with the family and my nephew, an early celebration for my sister's birthday since I have to work next weekend. 

Dave Ramsey

So Josh and I have been following Dave for the past year and a half trying to pay most, if not all of our debt off except our house.

Its not been easy but I want to keep a record of our progress. I had found something I had written in the back of a journal that I keep for meeting notes at work. I added where we are almost exactly 2 years later (even though we really didn't start until January/February of 2012). Then looking to where we want to be in another year.

                                          8/23/11                    1/26/12                   8/19/13                        

Lindsey Car                     $14,985                    $11,800                   $0!                                  

Josh's Car                        $18,250                    $16,300                  $5,000                            

Josh's Student loan          $22,000                     $20,800                  $19,282                          

Lindsey's Student Loan   $21,250                     $20,600                  $16,718                         
___________________________________________________________

                                     $76,485                     $69,500                  $41,000                     

With Jake out of daycare and soon to be 2 cars paid off hopefully we can breeeze through Josh's SL. We paid so much in interest alone (as you can see not much progress has been made thus far since we were paying the cars off first). The debt was even more if you think about it because I bought my car 1/1/2011 at around 20K so we put a lot on it to get it to the point we were at even in August.

I feel like we have made a lot of progress yet we can't stop now. 41K is still a large number. So I hope I can update a year and it really will look like how we have it laid out. Fingers crossed.            

i phone dump catching up

So warning. Picture overload. I always have this habit of letting all the pictures sit on my iphone and then having to do a large iphone dump to catch up with life.

Life has been busy and its about to get busier.

My neice Peyton's 3rd birthday party in Rock Hill

We also went over to my brother in laws to watch as they cut down a tree in the back yard. 

Little kid table. We have finally gotten to the point that they all can sit by themselves and eat:)

My mom came down to go to the heart doc with me in Winston and she also got to see Jake's end of the summer program at Camp.

Birthday weekend!

Me and my bestie Mandy. Love her. Time with your bestie is food for the soul.

Cousin weekend:)

Small birthday celebration. The big 33 spent with friends. 

Some birthday goodies on my b-day from coworkers/friends.

 This birthday cake they lied to me and said Jake was hurt to get me to the the other end of the facility Ha!

Roses from Josh

I got a pair of free Drexel Community Fair tickets from a lady who works for me. Jake and I had a blast. 

My boys this morning. They wanted to wear their matching shirts to church. :)

We have a big milestone coming up with Jake going to kindergarten in a week! We finally found out his teacher will be Mrs. Crump and we heard she was really good so I am happy.

I hope he makes a lot of new friends and I hope this coming year I can find a job closer to home since Jake has always been with me in Marion. We shall see what God has in store for us.