Happy New Year!

It is officially 2017! Which is so exciting and kind of sad at the same time, our kids get older this year which means we get older I'm not okay with this. So, Jason and I have somewhat of a tradition every New Year and it's not a very exciting one. We make a new budget! Yay budgets!! So the main reason we need a new budget is because last year Jason made significantly more than he is this year and I made significantly less last year and we made some very large purchases throughout the year. This year our budget is going to be pretty strict because we are saving up to take the kids on a pretty awesome vacation. So Jason and I made a promise to each other this month we are only buying groceries and our anniversary gifts, nothing else. That little thing alone will help us save a lot of money and we already know it. We are also going to attempt planning our meals ahead of time, this something I always claimed we would do and it never happens. If I can at least know a handful of our meals ahead of time it would be super helpful! This budget will honestly make or break a lot of the things we have planned for the year so it's super important to keep it. This year our family is changing, no we're not pregnant(to my knowledge) and not adopting, but we have some other awesome life changes going on. They happen to be life changes that require money-doesn't everything? It's just super crazy to me to think that it's actually 2017 already, I seriously feel like yesterday we were posting our first blog, we were getting ready to adopt Ryker. We were planning what to do with 2016, now BAM it's 2017 and here we are doing the same thing for 2017. I hope everyone had a very safe and happy New Year's Eve and that 2017 is a lot better than 2016! Happy New Year!