There She Goes...

Sorry it's been a couple weeks since I last wrote, I had quite a busy two weeks. For starters I was entrenched with all this truck/car stuff, my in-laws were in town, had some good friends come visit, and mixed in all of that was senior recognition dinner and Catalyst.

With the in-laws in town we got a TON of stuff done around the house, it almost looks like a whole new place. We hedged all our extremely tall bushes, took down a tree that was blocking the front of our house, painted the door and shutters black (which totally make the house look 100x better), mulched, and planted some plants and bushes in the island in the back yard. Overall I was very happy with what we got accomplished and extremely thankful for their help. I will post pictures real soon!

Today is a bittersweet ending of a relationship between me and my truck. I sold her to a dealer in Garner tonight who has plans to sell it to some person in Winston Salem. They gave me a good offer and I wanted to get out from underneath it. Although I'm glad to not have the debt responsibility, I am sad to see her go :(

But I love my wife and my future kids a lot more than any truck, so in all it was the best decision. Here's her last picture under my ownership.

It's So Hard to Say Goodbye

So this past Sunday I spoke to my students about "Contentment" and how I still screw that up at age 25. These past few weeks I feel that God has really been preparing my heart for some things to come, but in order for me to fully be ready for it I have to let go of something I don't want to.

Many of you know that Tracy and I would one day like to have kids and our plan is about 5 years down the road to do so. One huge value to both of us is to have Tracy home with our child and become a full time stay at home mom. In order for that to happen it would take some smart financial planning and getting rid of any debt we owe. It's so easy to let your eyes get bigger than they should and with two incomes you could get a LOT of nice stuff. But when we actually started dreaming about how that would look like for Trace to stay home in five years we realized a major debt of our has to go.

Thanks to some wisdom from family, friends, and God we have made the decision to say goodbye to my toy that I have only had for 6 months, my stinkin' sweet truck! You can view the Cars.com listing of my truck HERE. If you know anyone who is looking for an awesome truck send them my way, please!

Once we get this sold we will knock out 1 of 2 things that has us in debt, now if we can only get our house in Jacksonville, FL sold, we'll be on our way to being debt free (except for our NC house).