Financial Peace University

Last night, I started taking a class at my church as a part of our Wednesday Night Family Thingy. The class is Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University. It is really exciting to be taking this class because Ted and I have listened to Dave Ramsey for a couple of years whenever we hear him on the radio, and we think it is a great way/strategy to handle money...especially when you don't have a lot.

I have to thank my husband for letting me take this class because it is at the exact time that Jr. High Youth Group is and I am usually his #1 volunteer. So...THANKS!!! He is going to be going through the class vicariously through me, because this is a thing that married people are supposed to do together. But, really I am kinda in charge of all the money happenings anyway! :)

Another cool thing about taking this class is that one of my best friends, Jamie, from high school and her boyfriend, Steven, showed up to take it! And this is super exciting because we never see each other and we only live 20 minutes apart. So, now we get to have dinner and class together every Wednesday night for the next 12 weeks. :) YAY!

If you don't know anything about Dave Ramsey you should check him out. He is on AM radio stations and he has a show on Fox News (I think). He also has a website (of course). He is also going to be in GR (for all you down-staters) on Feb. 19th.

I kind of feel like I am being a spokesperson for him, but I am really excited to be able to learn about what he has to say about money and how to save/invest it, so our little children can have lots of money when we are gone. Ted and I have kind of thought about that for a while now..since, you know...the whole baby thing. :)

11 days!!! --- till we know what our little baby is.
And then we can reveal some name options!

And the Highlight of the Weekend was....

....a flat tire!

Haha, just kidding, just a minor road bump (literally) in our last-of-the-holidays-weekend. But, the hubby got a new tire today, so the Subaru is all set to go. :)

Our weekend was fun though. On Friday we got to have lunch with our friends The Whitley's (who are just the cutest couple, btw). Ted and I then went to Lowe's and spent waaaaay too much time looking and discussing blinds for our newly painted bedroom. We finally decided on these shades made out of bamboo sticks (as Ted calls them) and they are an espresso color. Super nice, BUT we discovered the wondow on Ted's side of the bed is a fancy-shmancy custom sized window, which needs custom sized shades. So, my shades are going up and Ted is just going to have to wait a little longer. ;) It's okay, we both enjoy the view of the garage from there.

We also bought a new ceiling light for our bedroom which is very pretty. Something Ted and I have both discovered through these little Lowe's trips is that we have different tastes and different stlyes. But, that's okay because life would be boring if we agreed on every little thing. Right? (Sorry to Ted for calling his shades choice "ugly and old lady") :)

On Saturday I had to work till 5pm but then we got to go to John and Anora's house. They are some super cool friends of ours and Ted is writing songs with them (along with another guy, Pat) that they will play in public someday. I think a band type thing may be forming, but they don't have a name or anything. On Saturday they wrote a song about a captian, first mate and the captian's lady. At the end of the song the first mate kills them both. It's a nice love song.

On Sunday, the weather was nice and pleasant, with freezing rain, wind and ice pellets. :) But, church was nice with Jan preaching. She is the Director of Spiritual Formation at our church. She's awesome! Then I had to go to work for 4 hours. It was at work that I decided to get a subsrciption to Mothering Magazine. It is a magazine about raising and caring for your children naturally. I am super excited to get my first issue in 6 weeks! You can check out their website at http://www.mothering.com/

Bye for now.