A Post About Us, Our House and Getting Out of Debt

In the midst of all the Levi updates, I thought a post true to the original purpose of the blog would be in order. I will attempt to not mention Levi (oops! too late).

Us
Um…Sonja’s not pregnant anymore. We’re tired and busy, but we’ve had a lot of wonderful help from our wonderful friends and family (yes, I said wonderful twice). Tycen is still at Jobster and Sonja is still at the City, although she’s currently on maternity leave. She's been very busy!

Our House
It’s coming along. The baby extra room is getting carpet Friday or Saturday – after spending a half day or so with my Dad trying to install it ourselves, I called a company and they’re going to do the baby extra room and our bedroom for $150 – I figure that’s a pretty good deal – especially since I would have needed to buy $25 in materials and rent a tool for another $20-30. After the carpet, all we have left is some basebord/trim/moulding. The bathroom is getting closer – I’ve got a few more layers of mud to do on the sheetrock and then we’ll be ready to install the surround. After that it’s a quick (heh heh) sink change out and it will be done. Oh, after we replace the vanity and do a little tweaking on our little storage shelf/cabinet. So, I guess there’s a bit more left to do. But I think I see the light at the end. Now if we can just get our neighbor to stop digging up our back yard…

Getting Out of Debt
We put this on hold while we built up a bigger emergency fund in case something went wrong with the pregnancy/birth. At this point the insurance will cover everything and once we’re pretty sure we’re in the clear, we’ll resume our attack on Sallie Mae (student loans). So, we’re still on track. I have to say, it has been very nice going through this "emergency" and not having to worry about finances - we haven't had to worry because of the time and energy we've put in working on our budget, it can run on auto-pilot for a bit while we focus on other things - and we also know there's money in our emergency fund if we need it. Besides that, I think the video below says it all (credit for the video goes to my brother).