We're Debt Free!!

Apparently there was a bunch of stuff to blog about right away. Mine and Lonnie's great announcement is that we are 100% Debt Free. We paid off $32K in student loan and tax debt in 21 months. Plus I paid my older sister back (5 years later) the $550 that she lent me for summer school. It is just so incredible to have actually accomplished this feat. Now we are free from being any slaves to any lenders. This process all started not long after we got married. We were introduced to Dave Ramsey. I would recommend his books for reading if you want some solid information on handling your finances in a way to honor Christ. We mostly just paid minimums while I was in nursing school and really started attacking the debt once I started working. We had to work really hard, live on a strict budget and put any and all extra toward the debt. God has blessed us so much, much more than we could have imagined. We were thinking that this would take until the end of the year to complete, but because we've been so blessed we were able to finish it before. We are hoping to call the Dave Ramsey show on Friday and shout "We're Debt Free" so that everyone can know and celebrate with us.