Moving Soon

It seems like it's been almost a year since we first talked about buying a house and soon it will be a reality. We found a home in Centerton, Arkansas that is kind of a like a cross between our old house in Utah and Steve's parent's home. We are super-excited to get out of our one bedroom apartment and move into our spacious three bedroom house.

It is an all brick, 3 bed/2 bath house with about 1450 square feet. It has some really nice features like a huge kitchen and a nice master bath with a whirlpool tub, separate shower and double sinks. George is looking forward to have a big backyard to run around in. They have planted a lot of trees that we may relocate to show off the house a little better. I am hoping my mom and David can come visit soon so he can give us some landscaping advice. Their house is landscaped very nicely....except for all the crepe myrtles. :)

Our closing date is scheduled for June 16th but we will have our apartment until the end of July so we plan on moving in slowly. We want to repaint the entire house but don't have the money or the energy to do it all at once so we will probably tackle one room at a time. I will post pictures as we make improvements.

We hope to get the guest room completed soon so friends and family can come visit. I'm really excited that Susan and Josh will be spending Christmas with us and my mom and David will be coming up for Thanksgiving. Holidays are more complete when you have all of your family there.

Running the numbers

While Steve did his homework last night, I worked on a debt snowball calculator to see how long it will take us to be debt free. I played about with different payment amounts and found that we can be completely debt free by June 2010 without having to change our lifestyle. That is awesome!

We are going to look at the budget and see what we can do without with move that number up even sooner. I'm getting pretty excited! Once we dump this debt we can be wealth building machines. Now, if I could only find a way to lose weight this fast.............

I'm almost old

Well, I turned 29 a couple weeks ago and watching a little more of my youth leave every day.  When I first got married I had many goals I wanted to achieve before I turned thirty.  Here are a few of them:

 

1)       Have 2 kids

2)       Steve finish college and be established in a career

3)       Be out of debt

4)       Get down to my ideal weight and be smokin’ hot

5)       Own a home

 

I guess I’m not doing too bad.  Steve loves his job and is working on school….if we get “Giselle Intense” on our debt, we can be debt free in about a year….and we did buy a home but sold it.  I still have one more year.  I think I’ll come up with some new goals for the next year then come up with a plan to actually make them happen. 

 

Please post some of your New Year’s Resolutions or your five year plan for the rest of us to mock….I mean…..enjoy.