God is soo good!

I was dreading paying sales tax for the new car...but since we traded in two the cost was under $300.

Plus I just found out that this is a 3 paycheck month for me...and I have extra cash from my health insurance not being withheld from the 1st.

Adam and I have been pricing childcare for summer, and yes it's astronomical for three kids. At least we have a CD with $ that was going to be for our grand trip in 09' but will be using it for the boys summer childcare. That's life, at least we had saved it and have it to use for such a good cause. Can't wait til age 12.

Louise McCollum is done with Chemo and we are singing Gods praise in this situation. I am so happy for Steph and their entire family.

Prayer request we have the Alston family with a baby Corbin @ children's (Heart murmur) and mommy at Baptist recovering.

And Nancy's mom Mrs. Carol hasn't been well.

Please keep them in your prayers.

It is proven that God works in amazing ways.

Gone and past

Christmas has gone and past.  The decorations are down and this year we didn't take a camera anywhere...including our own home.  We decided to just sit down and enjoy each and every moment.  We didn't set out the presents from under the tree; All organized and anal and in a row by size of course.  We let the boys go under the tree in the morning and hand them out one at a time.  All 5 of us sat on the floor and laughed and jumped with glee.  It was a GREAT Christmas.  Then of course follows the traditions of every Grandparent over here at our home for Christmas Breakfast.  Then off to Granny C's (which she's in LA) Adam and I cooked burgers for all.  Then off to Papaw & Nanos to have "Clean out the fridge".  Everyone gets what they want over there.  A little bit of this a little bit of that.  

On the gifts of course they were all small...the boys received NEW BEDS for Christmas early.  The screams for Axe body spray was hilarious and that sound will ring with me for a while.  My favorite gifts would be the bamboo sheets (oh yes!) and the new warm up suit.   

The day after Christmas Dylan & I stayed in our Jammie's took a shower and got in a different set.  We didn't leave the house!  It was great.  

The next day we got out and went for Breakfast at Cracker Barrell and had a day full of shopping.  When we sat down to eat our server asked the boys, "Did santa bring you good stuff", the boys sat their puzzled staring at Adam and I, like (What do we say?) they just nodded and giggled.  

I hope each of you had time to sit and enjoy the laughter with your families for Christmas and slow down as much as possible.  

new cars

So we bought a new car this weekend. We traded our two little cars on a new civic. Yes we still have two cars...we kept the suburban. But now just one car payment and two insurance payments.

I turned the finances over to Adam to review for the upcoming years budget. This is a BIG step for those of you who don't know me that well. He came up with the idea of doing this car swap...I felt lead to agree and we are saving over $200 / month...say bye bye medical bills.

We are also getting better gas mileage than the VW rabbit or the Hyundai...36 mpg on the HWY. WOOO! and there is more leg room in the back for our ever growing boys.

This is a drastic step to debt reduction. I feel the weight lifted off and can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I'm ready to snowball as Crown puts it.