Looking Forward

Sarah and I are into our marathon training, and it is going pretty well; the marathon is in March of next year in Napa Valley. Since our last post, I have filmed a couple more weddings and have been getting steady work from Frontside Films doing his editing.

There's a chance I'll be filming many more weddings next year (cross your fingers) for Frontside by picking up the jobs that he normally has to turn away due to being booked already. We are hoping that I can pick up enough work for Sarah to go back to school next year to work towards her Master's. Sarah's job has picked up considerably due to the loss of one of their closest competitors. She still enjoys what she does and gets along with her co-workers really well, for the most part. :)

Sarah and I are really enjoying our new church and the sense of family and closeness that comes with a smaller church body. Sarah has been volunteering with AWANA every Sunday night for the past month or so, and is committed until the end of the school year. I just started attending the high school group and hope to be able to serve there as I have at our previous church.

We also went to the pumpkin patch on Sunday and got our fall decorations!

Steve and Mojo are still doing great, as long as you don't count Mojo's hairballs.

We're Debt Free!!

No student loans, no car payments, no credit card payments, nothing!

Many of you know we have been on the Dave Ramsey program for about three and a half years; during that time we paid off $35,000 with an average salary of about the same.
During that time we survived going back to college, several layoffs & cut hours, but we just kept moving forward.

Thank yous' go out to our friends the McChesneys for introducing us to The Total Money Makeover & Sarah for all the grocery planning and budgets!
WE'RE DEBT FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Felt like writing something...

The last thing you expected was another blog post, but oh well.

Some quick updates for those who may not know or just plain forgot:

Sarah and I are attending East Parkway Church in Granite Bay and are really enjoying it so far. It's a much smaller church and the people are super friendly and welcoming.

Sarah is still working at Bob Murray & Assoc. and I am still freelancin' it as a wedding video editor.

Things are finally getting back to "normal" since Sarah's surgery (thanks again to all our friends and family who helped us out tremendously during the recovery period); we went to Monterey again on Saturday and had fun hitting all of our favorite spots: Campagno's for lunch, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Asilomar Beach and the Monterey Plaza courtyard for some coffee by the ocean.

Steve and Mojo are doing well; Mojo is barfing much less since we switched him over to yummy canned cat food. Steve is clearly jealous since he will eat some of his food and then shoves Mojo out of the way to eat his, which is why I now have to watch over them as they eat.

Not much else to say other than I miss my family. It was great having everyone in town at the same time several weeks ago, but now I miss everyone that much more.