Debt free scream scheduled for October 2027?

Tonight we graduated from Financial Peace. We've been aggressively paying off debt for a while but I'm really glad we took the class together. I got home and decided I wanted to do some extensive excel projections on how things would look if we did things the "right" way, and how long it'll take us to be debt free.

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Debt:

Car payment: $456 ($5,500 balance)

Student loans: $181 ($33,000 balance)

+ $2,183.00 snowball payments

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Fun milestones:

Our car loan will be paid off with our May 2019 payment

Our student loans will be paid off with our May 2020 payment

Our $13,000 6 month emergency fund will be funded in September 2020

We'll begin funding retirement at that point (we currently have this paused)

We will put our snowball towards savings, and have $60,000 for a down payment by May 2023

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We plan to buy a home in the $225,000 price range with $60,000 down in Spring 2023. On a 15 year mortgage, the total PITI mortgage payment will be approximately $1,600.00 total. We are projecting high on the interest rate since we don't know how they'll look in a few years.

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We plan to pay at least $3,000/month on our mortgage (increasing it by $100/year), invest $565/month in mutual funds, and continue to save 15% each month for retirement.

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So here's the fun part...... See you guys in October 2027 for my debt free scream, where we'll also have approximately $204,000 in retirement, and $42,000 in mutual funds before the age of 40!