You know all of those success stories you hear about people from completely different places meeting online and finding their soulmates and everything working out just about as perfectly as possible? So, yeah...that totally happened to us :) For real, I promise!
Adam is from Colorado and I (Jenni) am from North Carolina; Adam moved here after his daughter's mother moved her to my lovely state. Literally 34 days after he arrived in NC he found me online and sent me a message; from that day on my life would never be the same. After almost a month of constant text and phone communication, we met in person and what can I say, except it was love at first sight for both of us. We got engaged about 7 months later and were married 3 months after that, I believe the only word to describe our relationship is whirlwind...but of the absolute best kind.
Merging two lives, when we grew up so differently, has presented its challenges at times, but that is what makes life fun. When we first started communicating we realized that we both had a huge passion for travel, but neither of us had been able to do much of it, at least not the kind of traveling we wanted to do.
In order to live, travel and spend our lives doing what we really want to, we first have to get a couple of things in order...priority one: our finances. So, in July we began our debt free journey! We set up a budget and started using the cash envelope system (a la Dave Ramsey style). I can't say it has always been a walk in the park, but putting ourselves on a written budget is the best thing we have ever done, not only for our current situation, but also for our future selves.
After the debt is paid off we plan to pack up and travel to all of the wonderful places we can before choosing one of them to settle down in. There are so many amazing places that God has created and we want to see them all :) So, thanks for coming along on this journey with us!
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