Our story is quite unique.

Where do we begin? Let’s see,  it all started a decade ago. It was at a mutual friend’s party when all of a sudden this tall, dark, and handsome dude walked in. He was so fly although, I don’t quite remember what he was wearing.

He came in very swiftly and stayed only for a moment but long enough to catch my attention.

As the night ended, my girlfriend asked: “if I had seen anyone.” I replied and mentioned that I slightly remembered this dude who stopped through for a moment. As I described him to her, she couldn’t recall anyone who fit that description. However, in less than 24 hours, she found the dude that I had described and had his number for me! Yup (craziness, right?)! Well, I reached out and the rest is history!

We hit it off and I wish I could say it was all peaches & cream ever since but it WAS NOT!

Nope! We hit multiple stumbling blocks along our journey. We failed many times and we even threw in the towel some of those times. But God! God had and continues to have a plan over our lives.

Fast forward one morning, while we were trying to keep up with the Joneses, we found ourselves drowning in debt. It was there that we decided to hit the reset button on both our finances and lives. We searched for many ways to change not only our spending habits but also our mindsets.

In 2017, we’ve decided to ditch the north (New York) and hitched south (Florida). After prayer and fasting, we’ve purchased our first home together.

We’ve been dating for a decade now.

We have 5 beautifully busy children, that are literally our world. We cherish creating memories with them and one another. A few years ago, we made a declaration that we will continue to experience new adventures together as a family. Now we travel on average 6 weeks out of the year! We have developed a strategy that allows us to not only travel at such an affordable rate but also save while staying on a budget. Every year for the past 5 years, we’ve vacationed for 2 weeks in Orlando, Florida. We stay in luxury family-friendly resorts with featured 2-3 bedroom condos with a full-size kitchen and multiple bathrooms. It’s almost like we have multiple home-away-from-homes. Other places we’ve traveled have been Gatlinburg, TN, Ogunquit, ME, Virginia Beach, VA, Myrtle Beach, SC, New Orleans, LA, Houston, TX, and several other states across the US. In the last 4 years alone, we’ve traveled to 30 states.

We don’t mention the places we’ve vacationed or the frequency of our travel to impress you but rather to impress upon you that if we were able to develop the basic strategies, then so can you!

Our mission with our blog is to share our family’s life moments and memories while teaching you the same principles that have helped us along the way.