Sayonara 2009!

As 2009 comes to an end, all I can say to it is " Goodbye and Good Riddance!!" I hate the feeling of only remembering the bad things that come rather than the good, and that seems to haunt me about this year. I feel like Jake and I just can't catch a break. The past few months have been SUPER stressful with bills, money and it seems that something has terribly gone wrong each month! Lets take a look at the highs and MOSTLY Low's of 2009.
January: We celebrated the New Year in the boons, while I was pregnant, and surrounded by drunks. Maybe that was a sign of what was to come in 2009-- Misery. I did then celebrate my 23rd birthday. Whoo Hoo I'm getting old.

February: My husband turned 25 and our insurance premium went down. Hallelujah! I spent the most romantic night of the year babysitting my nephew and niece! That's okay, they gave me plenty of love and I made some $$$ doing it. Geesh, I kind of just made myself sound like a..... ANYWAYS

March: Had a 400 year old man, from H & R Block charge me $350 to tell me that we owed $2000 to IRS. Hell, I could of told myself that for free.

April: Went to a butt load of showers, 2 baby for myself, and 2 bridal. Bring on the gifts!! Jake and I also celebrated our 2nd year of marriage! So, April wasn't bad!

May: THE BEST THING OF ALL TIME, AND WHICH MADE MY YEAR, my son Peyton Michael Motley was born May 12, 2009 @ 9:53A.M weight 7 lbs 3 oz 19.75" long. Beautiful healthy baby.

We can fast forward through June and July because I stayed home with the baby boy, lost about 100 hours of sleep, pulled out a little bit of my hair and loved every minute of it!

August: Got back in the groove of working, only to discovere daycare IS NOT CHEAP. We took a trip to the ER for Jake, which we thought was appendicitis or kidney stones. Turned out it was neither, and we have still yet to know what was wrong with him. He took many tests the doctor couldn't find what was wrong. After this, the Medical bills started rollin' in. Let's just say we could purchase a pretty nice vehicle with the amount of medical bills we have accumulated!! At least they won't go to collections, am I right? $10 to you, $10 to you.....

September: SURPRISE! You have a new pool! Oh wait, that's a leak under our driveway. $1000 later we fixed one leak only to find out we have a 2nd leak. Awesome. Which we still haven't been able to afford. Double awesome. That means we have 2x higher water bills than we should. We started taking the Dave Ramsey Financial Peace Class to learn how to save money and pay off debt. It's a great class but when you can barely pay your bills, I'm not worried about saving just yet. Good tool for the future though!

October: One of my good friend's baby was born, Cayden Wise. Peyton was a very Furrocious lion for his first Halloween.

November: What do you do when times get tough, you need more money but can't get a second job because you already work full time and have a 6 month old baby????? YOU GET A ROOMMATE!!!! Thats exactly what we did to help out on the bills. Too bad we haven't actually been able to put that money towards paying off anything because again, something always goes wrong. The first check we had to pay off the remaining balance we owed to the plumbers. Oh yea, a great highlight of this month.. JAKE GOT A NEW JOB!!!! Things are looking up... NOT

December: This month is definitely the icing on the cake for one of the hardest years ever. We had to fix our heater [$130], we were stolen from, I had "Fat Bitch" etched into the hood of my jeep, and THEN our family was involved in a car accident on Christmas day. We slid on ice and hit another car pushing them into a wall. Thank God everyone in the car was safe, and no one was hurt, but there was some damage to Daisy, my tank of a jeep. I go today to get her inspected to see how much damage was done to her.

As you can see, this was a very hard year for us. I feel that if Jake and I can make it through this year... we can just about make it through anything!! We're hoping for things to look up in 2010. Full of health, wealth and happiness. oh, and to be debt free! Psh! Hope everyone brings in the New Year safely!!

Much Love