Wow… I had the most amazing conversation with Deyl Kearin and Mark Kuroda this morning over breakfast at Finestra Cafe!

Deyl is amazing with investments and was giving me some great insight into my own money matters.

I was truly inspired this morning to really get on top of owning and destroying my debt (which as a former Brooks student I have plenty of) so that I can begin to build investments in the future.

I went ahead and called all of my credit card companies and found out some really scary news… I’ve got INCREDIBLY high interest rates… it’s amazing what they’re able to charge for these things.

So, it’s time to pay down the debt. I wish I could come up with something brilliant like the “One Red Paper Clip” guy who was able to start trading with one red paper clip, and without spending a dime, finally was able to trade for a house. Crazy thing is, it only took him 1 year and ONLY 14 trades to realize his goal. Brilliant! Who would have thought the idea of a neighborhood kids game “Bigger or Better” would equate to something so big!

Anyone want to trade me for a compact flash card case?

So my honeymoon was only (I know… I shouldn’t say only…) about 11 nights long (it would have been an epic 2 or 3 weeks, but seeing as I shoot a wedding nearly every single weekend, I had to plan our honeymoon accordingly.

We got back on Wednesday night from our honeymoon (mind you this was several weeks back now) and on Saturday we were shooting a wedding.

The funniest thing at the wedding was that Cheryl and I see this dude who looks a lot like the pictures I’ve seen of Ansel Adams. And to top it off, the guy is shooting pictures with a little point and shoot digital camera. I couldn’t but grab a few shots of him!

Life has been cruising along, and I’ve been ignoring the blog. So, here are two quick pics from today.

One, we just bought a new-to-us car (ie: used car)

Me and Cheryl both secretly (maybe even openly) had wanted a Toyota Tacoma for a while and so we decided it would be wise to sell both vehicles we own right now and buy a Tacoma. They’re supposed to run for AGES without breaking down. (now the curious part is, that anyone who knows me well knows that this would be my 10th car. Being that I’m 26 years old, you can do the math. I don’t usually keep cars more than a year) So, the fact that it runs for ages and people have told me on multiple occasions that this puppy will run for 300,000 miles, I don’t think that will ever factor into my car owning equation.

And because it’s Sunday and Cheryl and I had to be at church at 8 a.m. (we don’t normally get up til closer to 10 a.m.) to prep for teaching Sunday school, it’s been a lazy day around our house. So I tossed in a quick pic of Cheryl sleeping. We’ll see how long it takes for her to read my blog and notice that I posted a pic of her.

Oh, and for those of you who haven’t checked out Cheryl’s website hop over there and check it out: http://www.cherylmay.com. I believe she just recently updated it and added in some awesome family portraits she recently shot. That girl can freaking shoot!!!! I can’t believe the portraits she does!!! (I married a good one! I keep telling her that I plan to retire from the business she’s gonna get!!)