She Rocks, She Rolls

This last week has been huge for Lydia. She's been "talking" more, she's been reaching and grasping objects, she's started hugging her stuffed animals when she naps, she's been holding her hands together, and she even started rolling over! Like I said, big week. Here's a video for your entertainment. The first part is her rocking out with me, and she even sings a solo at one point, and the second part is her rolling.

Lydia Rocks & Rolls

It's been a big week for Audrey and me too. Two years ago, when we first married, we vowed to start doing Dave Ramsey's "Financial Peace University" because someone had gotten it for us as a wedding present, and we had heard such great things about it. Well, we started, fell off the wagon, and now we're getting back on. He goes over everything from budgeting to haggling to charitable giving to retirement to saving and more, so it's been really helpful in getting us to start shaping our future.

It's kind of rough actually sticking to a budget. We had sort of written one before, but I'd call it more of a polite suggestion than a budget. Anyway, we are now the people you see in the canned food aisle with a can in each hand, deliberating whether to get the store brand baked beans or splurge the extra 5¢ and get the good stuff. It's definitely a process but we need some discipline. Someday, maybe Lydia will appreciate the sacrifice we made and she might even do better financially than we did. (Please marry a doctor, please marry a doctor....)

If you ever get a chance to do "Financial Peace," I would definitely take it. I know a lot of churches offer the course for free or at a very discounted rate, so if you can talk to some of your higher upper holy rollers and convince them that this would be a good investment for your church, you won't regret it. And next time you see us, we'll be rollin' on dubs, sippin' Cristal. Not at the same time of course. Buzzed driving IS drunk driving.

-Andrew-