Hello and welcome to our marriage and personal finance blog! My husband Luke and I love the life that we are creating together and want to live it to the fullest. We are fun-loving, adventure-seeking and always enjoying the present while dreaming of the plans God has in store for our future. The future is exciting and we have learned and become strong believers that debt will always stand in the way of us living our fullest future.

So… we decided to start this blog to document our journey out of debt, to share what we have learned so far about marriage and personal finance, and to inspire you to dream big so that you too can experience financial peace and freedom right alongside of us.

To give you a little background: Luke and I began this journey together with over $100,000 in student loan debt when we were married in 2015. Yikes! The debt was overwhelming and, like many people, we thought it would stick around forever.

In January of 2018, with $57,000 left, we decided to make one decision to change our future. We made it a goal to become debt free by December 2018. 🙂

We didn’t really even notice the effect that the debt had on our marriage until we realized that we weren’t really talking about money or dreaming with financial freedom in mind. When we started really talking about and agreeing on money goals we started to see even more victories in our marriage.

It wasn’t until we came across the Dave Ramsey show on YouTube that we really understood that we could do this. The Debt Free Screams that air on his show  everyday served as the motivation we needed to give his system a try. In our hearts, we longed for financial peace we just didn’t know how to get there. Through his show and instruction, we were given the hope we needed to shovel out of the financial mess we had created together. We want you to have the same hope and peace that we were given knowing that debt doesn’t have to be forever. Let’s do something EXTRAORDINARY together! We love you and can’t wait to share this exciting journey with you!