Playing catch-up

Okay I haven't been very good at blogging! Anyways, here's a post to catch up to where we are today.

We have been craaaazy busy with business, family, and life! After Dream Night, we have been really fired up and anxious to hit a parameter called Eagle. It's a good extra $800 a month income and SO easy to do. Our goal is to have Eagle qualifications by our next major function- April, called Spring Leadership. Brian has been AMAZING the past week or 2, getting new business contacts and sharing our business with others! His goal is to share our plan 4 times per week. He's at 4 plans for this week already, and it's Wed :D :D

As for family, it's kinda the usual- I babysit by brother every Wed night, and some Sunday mornings to give my parents a break for attending church and their bible study.

We are filing taxes hopefully tonight!! Sooooo excited, because getting our return back means that we are THOUSANDS closer to paying off one of our BIG credit cards! We transferred 2 credit card balances (Brian has been paying on these cards for YEARS) to one single card, with a WAY lower interest rate. We went from 22% of both of the previous cards, to 7% for the new one! But since we combined both old cards, the new balance is LARGE, $9k.

We have planned out for the next many months our financial budget, and we are planning on paying off that $9k card at the end of MAY!!! What a FABULOUS 1-year anniversary gift!!!

So we are VERY anxious to get tax money back. I LOVE being self employed; our taxable income is SO low b/c of all the legal deductions, etc. LOVE IT!

We just bought a new dining room table too. The table we had was 4 years old, as I had bought it when I first moved out of my parents house. My tastes in decor have certainly changed, so we decided to sell the old table, and sell a bunch of things on Craigslist to pay for the new table. It worked fabulously! Here's the new table (stock photo):

So we are plugging away with financial goals, getting out of debt, and putting LOTS of money into savings! We are working on business goals and focusing on getting freeeeee!! I cannot WAIT to be stay-at-home newlyweds, and eventually parents; what a joy!!