Change

We changed our music! It’s a violin intro to one of Katie’s cds and also one of the most beautiful things we have ever heard!

Katie’s schedule is changing like crazy! Tuesday is the last day that her kids go to school and June 1st is her last day!! Wahoo! Her plans are to take about a month off before baby sitting. This will give her some MUCH NEEDED downtime! This is also when we will be starting to ready the Grant fro Bayyari’s Outdoor classroom! We will post more info when it is ready.

We will post more soon.

Just working… & Working out…

Just working
So, it’s common for someone to ask, “What’s going on?” Most of the time we can say, “Not much. Just work’n hard!”
It sounds weird, but I love being able to say it! It reminds me that we ARE getting out of DEBT! There is no “special formula”, no “easy way out” – we are working hard and paying it off. Imagine that! We are really enjoying the opportunity at Red Robin. I have really gotten the hang of serving and Katie is awesome & back to her old “server self.” It’s been fun!

Working Out
Many of you read the post about Katie & I considering the Body for Life program. I still think that it is a GREAT program and worth the investment if you are thinking about something similar. However, it does cost $$. Much of the program revolves around EAS products that can now be found at Wal-Mart, but it is still fairly expenseive.
Instead
We have decided to work out hard and adjust our portion size. Novel idea, I know. I will be maxing the protein intake (through shakes & bars), minimizing the carbs, & using my old “one body part per day – 5 days a week” program that I saw awesome results from before we got married. If you want to keep up with my progress & learn as I learn (all while having lots of laughs as I make fun of myself), check PumpYouUp.blogspot.com I think you will find it well worth your trip. Justin Long – a great friend from our community group – will be working out with me daily & we’ll be posting all sorts of funny stories, stats, and great information.

Praise the Lord for us! Things are going GREAT!

A Day Off

I have today off! From Red Robin and the Real Estate gig! We have been working hard lately and it is becoming second nature to serve others at Red Robin. It is finally fun, believe it or not! So far it looks like we will be averaging an extra $250 – $300 a week, which goes straight to our debt! That means that we will pay off about $3,600 – $4,800 of our debt this summer! That is so exciting!
We are finally strictly emplimenting the envelope system this month so that will also help to keep us PAY OFF DEBT instead of buy more toys!

I’ll post more a little bit later. If you haven’t been to our community group’s web site lately, check it out! Justin put an awesome sound clip on it from Dave Ramsey’s Radio Show.

POSTPONED!

Our certification was postponed… by us! We’ve been so busy lately we forgot that we need some time for ourselves. Since we were suposed to be certified Friday night, we were able to graciously back out of Sunday nights certification attempt. We needed the time for ourselves or we would be going CRAZY this week!

Today, everything goes as normal, but Katie has Kindergarten graduation this evening and I will be working at Red Robin (trying to finish up this “traiing” thing)

See you soon!

Flying By…

This week was a crazy one! Katie and I worked our “Day Jobs” from 8-4 and then our “night jobs” from 5 – 9. Talk about working your life away! As you know, we were in training for our “red job” this week. I call it our red job because the reason why we have this job is because we are in the red! What better place than Red Robin!
The week flew by. Sunday Night is our certification (where we graduate from Trainee to Server). Friday night I probably learned the most and it was one of the funnest nights! I “followed” Paul – a great server & fun guy. We had a fairly large section and stayed busy most of the night. As it turns out, we had one of the best $ales numbers ever! We did over $1,000 in one section – I’m not sure if that has ever been done. He let me do most of the talking and I even got to do a couple of tables on my own which really boosted my confidence. I just have to learn the menu now and I’ll be good to go! (Menu = food and ALL ingredients, & drinks with ALL ingredients!)
I was a little worried after our bad serving experience Tuesday & confusing/dramatic Wednesday Night, but Friday put everything in perspective and reminded me that it is just taking care of another person. No big deal. I can do that.

I hope you like the new feature we added to the blog: Background Music! The song is by Jack Johnson. It is entitled “Belle” and is on the In Between Dreams album. Enjoy! I’ll be changing the tune every now and then.

Look for a post Sunday Night or Monday Morning about how the certification went. We have a LOT of book work to memorize between now and then! We may need another week.

Thanks for all of your prayers and support! We have loved seeing God’s hand shaping us in our “everyday lives.”