Friday, July 30, 2010
Credit Sharks in Suits
Dave Ramsey wasn't kidding when he said credit card companies are like sharks! They are relentless. But I did not give in and after 20 minutes of battling with them over the phone today my credit card is canceled once and for all! Sure, there were tons of other things I really wanted to buy with that money but I know using it towards debt was the smart thing to do. There are far more important things in life than the "stuff" we collect. The borrower is always the slave to the lender and that is no lie. It is such a freeing feeling to have one less debt to worry about. That feeling far outweighs the temporary pleasure of anything I could have bought with that money. I am so proud of how hard Kyle and I have worked to reduce our debt by SO much this year. We are now one step closer to being totally debt free!!
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Green Room
We have sort of been in a rut with the house for the last few months. Not exactly sure why, we've just been busy and working crazy hours so we just haven't really done much. But Kyle finally got motivated one day and went and got some paint!!! We are turning one of the upstairs bedrooms into an office/guest room. I let Kyle pick out the paint color *gasp*! I know! He did a great job though, it's an olive green color... Slate Green to be exact. It looks soooo nice!! No more yucky blue and gray! I seriously need some accent color suggestions.... I'm kind of stuck. Is white or cream too plain and safe? Would red/burgundy be to Christmasy? Is black or brown too dark? (I'm kind of staying away from brown anyway since our entire living room is green and brown already) Suggestions please!!
Old yucky colors
BEHOLD...
New green room... before all the junk got moved back in!
We even painted the closet, go us!
Old yucky colors
BEHOLD...
New green room... before all the junk got moved back in!
We even painted the closet, go us!
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Home of the Braves!!
We just got home from spending a wonderful 4th of July weekend in Atlanta! I hadn't seen my cousins and their babies since Christmas! There was about to be trouble if I didn't see them really soon.
Friday night I got to experience my first Braves baseball game!! It was wonderful. Wonderful! We had good seats on the right field line. Too bad their star rookie, right fielder was on the injured list. But Chipper Jones was back!! I was so excited to see him play in real life, I've had a crush on him since middle school. He may be 39 years old be he can seriously still hang with those younger guys. He's the third baseman so I didn't see him that well but I could still cheer very loudly for him! ;) Actually, he's a real crowd favorite. The whole place erupted EVERY time he got up to bat. They went into 11 innings and finally scored the winning run!! And of course we stayed for the fireworks! I loved my first MLB game, I really wish we lived closer and we would go to so many more games!
Saturday we had a nice relaxing day with salon time and shopping. My cousin Holly is a cosmetologist and since she had to work that day she wanted us to come for a visit. Fine by me! She always wants to do my hair every time we are together! So my sissy and I got a haircut! And of course some shopping time afterwards. The men stayed home and played with the new grill and got in a few tournaments of red-neck golf (ladder ball!) We also squeezed in a little pool time. That night we had a fun cookout and the best part was.... homemade Reese cup ice cream!!!!!!! It was amazing.
Sunday we loaded up everyone and headed to the lake for the day. The weather was perfect the whole weekend. It was hot, but not miserable like it has been for the last month. Kyle and I stayed on the boat most of the day and did some tubing and a lot of laughing. My Mom and aunt tried the tube too, that was pretty funny! After about 5 hours or so the babies were exhausted and we were all hot, sandy and tired too. I was in a car with the one baby who doesn't sleep on car rides. The poor dear cried, no actually she screamed the whole hour drive home. She didn't want anything but her Momma, who was driving. It was pitiful. I know she slept great that night though, haha. We got home and had pizza and did some small fireworks out in the yard. It was such a fun day and a great way to celebrate our nation's Independence Day!
Monday morning we were up way too early to head back home! Fun times and great memories!
*Sorry about the quality of some of these pictures, some were taken with a cell phone!*
Dad and Kyle at the lake
The parents (oh yeah, we were all super cool in our patriotic shirts)
Joli
Turner Field
GO BRAVES!
the cousins: Kip, Jessica, Holly, Me, Kyle and Leah
me and Holly
me and Nevie not looking at the camera :/
Princess Nevie
Friday night I got to experience my first Braves baseball game!! It was wonderful. Wonderful! We had good seats on the right field line. Too bad their star rookie, right fielder was on the injured list. But Chipper Jones was back!! I was so excited to see him play in real life, I've had a crush on him since middle school. He may be 39 years old be he can seriously still hang with those younger guys. He's the third baseman so I didn't see him that well but I could still cheer very loudly for him! ;) Actually, he's a real crowd favorite. The whole place erupted EVERY time he got up to bat. They went into 11 innings and finally scored the winning run!! And of course we stayed for the fireworks! I loved my first MLB game, I really wish we lived closer and we would go to so many more games!
Saturday we had a nice relaxing day with salon time and shopping. My cousin Holly is a cosmetologist and since she had to work that day she wanted us to come for a visit. Fine by me! She always wants to do my hair every time we are together! So my sissy and I got a haircut! And of course some shopping time afterwards. The men stayed home and played with the new grill and got in a few tournaments of red-neck golf (ladder ball!) We also squeezed in a little pool time. That night we had a fun cookout and the best part was.... homemade Reese cup ice cream!!!!!!! It was amazing.
Sunday we loaded up everyone and headed to the lake for the day. The weather was perfect the whole weekend. It was hot, but not miserable like it has been for the last month. Kyle and I stayed on the boat most of the day and did some tubing and a lot of laughing. My Mom and aunt tried the tube too, that was pretty funny! After about 5 hours or so the babies were exhausted and we were all hot, sandy and tired too. I was in a car with the one baby who doesn't sleep on car rides. The poor dear cried, no actually she screamed the whole hour drive home. She didn't want anything but her Momma, who was driving. It was pitiful. I know she slept great that night though, haha. We got home and had pizza and did some small fireworks out in the yard. It was such a fun day and a great way to celebrate our nation's Independence Day!
Monday morning we were up way too early to head back home! Fun times and great memories!
*Sorry about the quality of some of these pictures, some were taken with a cell phone!*
Dad and Kyle at the lake
The parents (oh yeah, we were all super cool in our patriotic shirts)
Joli
Turner Field
GO BRAVES!
the cousins: Kip, Jessica, Holly, Me, Kyle and Leah
me and Holly
me and Nevie not looking at the camera :/
Princess Nevie
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