The other Dave in my life...

So I have another Dave in my life...Dave Ramsey.  My Dave and I are taking the Financial Peace University class at our church in hopes of  "living now like no one else so we can Live like no one else later."  We are very excited about the possibility of being debt free (not including our house) in the near future.  We don't have a lot of debt compared to other Americans but to say we have no car payment, no medical bills, student loans, etc. will be freeing!!  Owen asked my Dave if we could eat Mexican tomorrow night since we had a coupon and Dave said "Dave Ramsey doesn't like for you to eat out." and Owen said, "Have we met him?" HaHa!  We will be getting to know him really well in the next 13 weeks.  So, starting tonight - if you ask me out for lunch - I'll probably say no!!  But we have turkey and bread here!

I finally did it!!

I got up!! It took a few days from my last post to put it into action but I was up at 5:30 this morning. Dave and I did our couple's devotion and I stayed up. Well, let me take that part back. I laid in the bed and watched the news - I didn't go back to sleep though! And let me tell you, I got a lot done while the kids were sleeping and it felt good.  I was amazed I made it all day but I did and it was nice!  Let's see if I can do it again tomorrow!

If you write it...

It will happen.  I'm going to try the philosophy similar to "If you build it, they will come." and hope it works for me!!  I've been talking about this for awhile and just haven't put any of it into action. So hopefully putting it out there into blogworld, I will hold myself more accountable and actually do the stuff I keep talking about... So basically, I have really been racking my brain this month about resolutions.  Because I'm an anal organized type person who likes outlines and lists, I decided to breakdown my resolutions into monthly goals that focus on a theme for each month.  I decided to approach these goals with one word in mind  - "INTENTION".  As we all know, intention basically means purpose.  But one definition that I liked of this word was "The feeling of total focus on and belief in a particular action." We all set out with the best intentions sometimes, but it just doesn't ever happen; our priorities change, things come up, and well life just happens!  So each month, I will take my goals and attack them each day with the best intentions.  This month, my monthly goal will be working on my morning routine - aka: getting my butt out of bed!!  If I just get up earlier than the boys, I can spend time doing my devotion for the day, enjoying my coffee, watching the news and actually eat breakfast before 11 a.m.!!  I might throw a shower in there somewhere! I'm up usually at 6 a.m. with Dave to do our couple's devotion, but I always get back in the bed when he leaves.  Well, not anymore.  Tomorrow I will be getting up at 6 a.m. and get ahead of the day before it gets ahead of me.   I'll let you know how I do tomorrow!!

A Must Read...

My friend Kirstin has a wonderful post on her website.  They are in the process of adopting a child from Ethiopia and her latest post really opened my eyes to the desires of being a mother.....It truly is a must read for any mom.

There is YAPPING in my head...

So, yes, I'm going to play along with my blog's name for post #2.  Probably won't happen alot but it's fitting for this!  So yes, there is yapping in my head and it goes by the name of Demi Lovato.  If you don't know who she is, she is on Disney and was in Camp Rock 2.  Owen is obsessed.  So for Christmas Owen got Disney Sing It and it is hilarious to watch him sing.  He has now learned to change his voice to country, screeching girly, and many others.  So he was doing Sing It last night and was singing "It's On" from Camp Rock 2 starring Demi Lovato.  Well guess what kept me up for about 45 mins last night as I tried to go to sleep all snug in my bed - Demi Lovato.  Ugggghhhh.  She was stuck in my head sing "It's On." Well you know what Demi, IT'S ON tonight.  You will not be yapping in my head tonight!!   No more Sing It before bedtime!

The story behind my blog name...

I've been wanting to start a blog for quite sometime. I've been stuck on what I would name it and finally it hit me - yap. We got two golden retrievers over the summer - they yap. Our two kids - yap (ALOT!). And well I need a place that I can yap! So now you are yapping with the Yates Family! I hope you enjoy the blog and laugh along with us...