Its official

The day has arrived! Today we put our house on the market.

We pray for a quick and painless sale in the near future!

We are excited...scared...mostly excited. Our lives are about to change in a big way.

Final Steps!

I created this blog on the day after Christmas, 2005. Almost 6 years later we are finally putting the final pieces of the plan together that caused this blog to come about. There is no accident that the blog is called "Pikes Peak or Bust". Our main goal from the beginning has been to leave this house and this town to pursue a "better" lifestyle for my wife, my children and me. When this blog started we were both working low paying state jobs in a town that did nothing for us. Since that time, we made several very big decisions to change our little families way of life. For one, getting my wife a suitable job that she truly enjoyed and that deserved her was my main goal at the beginning. So we decided that she needed to go back to school. It was very hard for her, and I have to admit at times I did think it was too much for her to handle. A full time mom with a full time job going to school full time??? Not possible! Little did I know I was married to Super Woman. I am so proud of my wife. The next step was for me to get a better job and when I applied for a uniformed civilian job in the Patrol (for the 4th time) I was happy to find out that I was accepted. Almost 6 years later we have more than doubled our salary and we have used the extra money to get us closer to our next goal. Complete debt freedom. Our true goal is, as I stated above, to pursue a "better" lifestyle for my family. One thing that I did come to realize was that happiness was not a direct reflection of how much money you make.

The final steps are in motion as of 2:26 today. I talked to a real estate agent in regards to selling this house and we are about to list the house and pay off the rest of the debt we have and cross that goal off the list. Once the house is on the market, the agent predicts around a 90 day sale which would be perfect. Once we sell the house and pay off as much if not all of the debt with our profit, we will then be in our final steps to leaving. Deidra will then apply for her jobs and we will start making 3 day vacations out to the areas we are interested in.

The excitement is about to begin!

Keep ya posted.

Oh...quick side note...down to 254! Still losing! 6 more pounds and I will have reached a weight that I have not been since my son was born! Boom Baby!

Broncos Fall 29-24...But......

Sure, the Broncos lost. Sure, it was to the Chargers which was picked by all to win anyhow. Sure, Orton was picked to be the safe option as QB in a game that was predicted as a loss. Sure, Orton is the "safe" option as they call him, throws the ball away "safely" when he was about to lose yards or be sacked. BUT....

What you wont hear is that the chance to win was there from the beginning. What you wont be told is the back story of what could have been. Let me bring you up to date. For the last 5 games when Orton threw the ball out of bounds to be "safe" or crawled into a little ball before his inevitable oncoming sack or was stopped in the red zone only to walk away with 3 points or less....the Tebow boo birds came out in full force. Sure Tebow is a very nice guy. A religious guy that thanks his team members first and never takes the credit himself. For the last 5 games I had to listen to announcer after announcer (some being ex-NFL QB's) talk about how the crowd just didn't understand that a guy like Tebow is best left on the sideline due to throwing inaccuracies or a weird release of the ball.

With 1 Quarter of play left, the Broncos were down 24 - 10 in an already chocked up loss by the announcers and most of Denver. Orton was doing his thing...and I was trying to stay awake on my couch. Then they decided to go with Tebow! The first couple sets he went 3 and out...a couple bad throws true (hit the hands none the less and should have been caught) and a couple bad snap takes (it was after all his second time behind the 1st string snap man). Then Tebow came out to play. My wife and I started to wake up and watch the real story unfold. With one half of a 4th quarter over, Tebow was trying to win! And you could see it in the way he pumped the team up on the sidelines. Trying to win against the Chargers and I saw the fear in Crybaby Rivers eyes. He new he was about to become an example of Tebow. In the next set Tebow made the first downs happen. Not with his arm every time...but a first down after first down happened none the less...then he pushed his way into the endzone and made a 2 point conversion. Then another score and we were within 3 of winning. He avoided the sack threw the ball in the air with 1 second to go in the forth...and....we missed it. The Broncos lost the game. The fans however and me as well did not. We won. We cheered for the guy leaving the field as the comeback kid that never got the chance to show us what he would have done with 4 quarters against a beatable Chargers team.

Good game Tebow.