Fort Westwood

A few days ago I was asking Scott if as a kid he ever made forts. I know that when I was growing up that was one of my favorite things to do in my basement. Made of blankets, chairs and TV trays we would make different rooms and tunnels to play in. It was something so simple yet so entertaining.

We had made plans this weekend to go camping. We have had something every weekend for probably 3 months and camping seems to get pushed to the back burner because work and family came first. But it rained yesterday. And Scott was pretty bummed. I had told him I'd camp with him in the backyard but it was still poring rain. So we decided to make a fort in the living room. It didn't have any tunnels and only had 1 room, but it was fun to remember what it is like to be a child.

This morning, I started to clean up and asked for Scott's help taking down the fort and he was bummed so we are leaving it up for a few more days. He plans on sleeping in it tonight... I told him I'm sleeping in my bed. But it was fun and this is an activity I can't wait to do with my own children one day. :)

Zero

That's right, it says ZERO. A couple weeks ago we made some really big payments on my students loans and I can now say my education is MINE. I can't tell you what a great feeling it is after paying for4 years and not seeing the amount going down much, and now it's gone! All we have left on our credit report as far as debt is my car and Scott's school loan which we have a plan to pay both off by next May (knock on wood). When we moved here to Price we were swimming, just trying to stay afloat. Someone had given us Dave Ramsey's book "The Total Money Makeover" for our wedding, we read it and it taught us how to best get out of debt as quickly as possible. I would recommend it to anyone, it really has some good advice. Having 2 incomes has been a huge blessing for us. Yay for one less bill!

Comments

I guess some people have tried to make comments on this blog but the access has been denied. I didn't change my settings but I went in and tried to make it so any person could comment. If for some reason it denies you, email me at stephkay82 at hotmail dot com. I just wanted to make sure everyone knows I didn't block anyone from commenting. I love all comments. :)

Top 10

As fall is quickly approaching I decided to make a list of the top 10 things I'm looking forward to this fall...

10. Less yard work.
9. Work slowing down.
8. Evening walks in a perfect temperature.
7. More time spent at home.
6. Anticipating and preparing for the holiday season.
5. Leaves changing colors.
4. General Conference
3. Seeing Mary Poppins at Capital Theater.
2. BYU football
1. Celebrating 4 years as the wife of an amazing man.

It's going to be good.