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Bambi

Me and My Big Mouth!

When Matt and I got married, I decided that I needed to enact a deer mount rule. My rule was that if there was going to be a dead deer hanging around my house, it had to score at least 150. For those of you who don't know, when you kill a deer, they use a tape measure to get the total inches of horns. 150 is a decent size deer. Matt already had killed 150 class deer with his bow. We like to call this guy "Deer."

"Deer"

Score-154

When we moved into our house, Deer was the first thing that was hung. Well the chances of getting 150 class deer with a bow are slim. Matt also has his own rule that he won't kill another buck if it is smaller than something he already has on the wall. So I'm thinking that I'm pretty safe with only having one mount in my house. I guess I didn't really know the guy I was marrying! In December, a "big" deer was spotted. Matt decided he was going to go down to Laredo and try get him. Matt and Cuatro went down and set up a pop-up blind where the deer had been spotted. Walon and his brother-in-law, Wayne, were also down there. One morning I get this phone call:

Matt:(with buck fever) I SHOT!

Me:(still not awake) What?

Matt: I Shot. I hit him.

Me: Did you got him?

Matt: I think so. I don't know where he went. I gotta go.

Me: Ok, call me when you find something out.

Long story short, they had to call dogs to track the deer. They finally found him about 9 at night.

"Bambi"

I got this in a text message about 11 that night.

"Bambi"

after he was scored with a total of 174 5/8

So yes, Bambi is going to be in the house too. Right now he isn't at the taxidermist yet, so I have a few more months of being a one deer mount house! I'm sure if you come to visit in the next 6-9 months, Bambi will be here! I tried to make a new rule that the next deer had to be at least 180 class deer, but Matt said 175. We will have to see what the future of Matt's deer hunting career brings!

Another One Bites the Dust

The snowball is rolling! In December we paid off the water softener AND made the first extra payment towards Matt's truck!

I don't make New Year's resolutions, because let's face it, I can't keep one! But our goal for this year is to finish paying off all of the rest of our car debt! If everything goes as planned, we can be debt free by the end of the year! I'm not going to lie, I want it be debt free YESTERDAY, but money doesn't grow on trees out in our yard!

I am already making a list of places I want to go and things that I want to do when we are debt free. I was telling Matt a few of them the other day and I think he was probably thinking "Where don't you want to go?"

I am currently listening to the DR radio show, and its Friday, so people are calling in with their "DEBT FREE" calls. I'm jealous. And now back to work!