We Did It!!!

After a few years of planning, hard work, and careful budgeting, it's official!

Jason bought the house in late 2002. A few months later, he was laid off, and worked odd jobs for 3 years. When we married in 2006, the plan was that we would live off Jason's income, and use mine to pay down the mortgage. Which would have been fairly easy, except that a few months after we got married I quit my job as an engineer at Raytheon and starting working part-time at H&R Block and Accountemps, with a significantly reduced annual income.

But our goal was to pay off the mortgage by the end of 2008, so we did what it took and got it done.

Wednesday I went over to our Credit Union to send the wire transfer to pay it off. While I was there, I got out 2 $100 bills so we could pay for our celebration dinner with cash. Jason invited me to buy a new dress for our celebration, so I went shopping afterwards. =)

Thursday night we put debt free bumper stickers on our vehicles.

Friday, we took the Fairlane downtown to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. We got valet parking. The food and service was terrific. The steaks were mmmm... so delicious!

We told our server what we were celebrating, so he brought this at the end of our meal:

Then we went to Hilbert Circle Theatre for Yuletide Celebration! We met up with Ken and Kristy, and Adam and Jenn. Yuletide Celebration is a lot of fun for the young and the young at heart.

I've been smiling for three days straight - I definitely recommend being debt free for a mood booster! =)