Until next year...

So I'm proud to say I mailed our taxes out on April 12th, thank you very much. He had absolutely nothing to worry about. And, we're getting a pretty big refund. That will be nice because I think Mike may have quit his job today. : (

He's been unhappy for a while now. He was hired in September as the shop manager for a lawn mower repair shop. But except for the first month, he has never really been allowed to manage. (I think he did it then just because the owner didn't want to be a man and fire some people so he made Mike do it.) In fact, the owner constantly questions anything Mike's working on. We're beginning to wonder why he was hired in the first place. Each day he comes home more and more frustrated and stressed out. I can't blame him for wanting to leave, but I don't know what we'll do until he finds something else. I'm praying he'll get to work and choose to stick it out until something comes up. I won't know until I get home tonight.

Keep us in your prayers.

Taxes, anyone?

Am I the only one who hasn't gotten around to doing their taxes yet?

Mike is really on my case to get this done. I keep telling him not to worry--I WILL have them out the door by the 15th. But when you're working 11-12 hour days, then still driving 45 minutes home, cooking dinner, giving the dogs attention, etc, it's hard to remember to find what I need to finish them up!!!

I usually don't wait this long, but with moving and getting married, I haven't kept up with my Avon expenses like I should have. I've got 7 days, what's the hurry? : )

(I'm just full of excuses, aren't I?)

This one's for you, Cara...

This was attached to a news article online this morning. I thought it was BEAUTIFUL!! I only wish I had taken it myself!! I love the springtime. I hope that we'll be able to go for drives this year to look at all the wonderful wildflowers.

(By the way, this is a bluebonnet photographed from above...)

Per your request...

Here are my boys: Michael, Harley, and Chopper.

Aren't they so cute when they are sleeping?

This is Chopper's favorite spot. We like to call him Parrot.

This is Harley's favorite position. Considering we never feed him when he does this, you'd think he'd eventually stop trying...

This is what they do when it smells REALLY good (like the can of tuna Mike's eating). Harley will start whining like he's starved to death.

And this is the madness at my mother-in-law's house when we visit. She has four, so there's six altogether. We tried to take them to the lake once. What a spectacle!

AND NOW FOR THE MOMENT YOU'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR...

...the much anticipated wedding photos. The photographers gave us 2 discs with everything on them. It's close to 900 pictures, so here are just a few.

I'm not really holding my boobs...

This is me with my stepfather, Ken.

Follow-up

So here was the snow at it's heaviest. Also, this is as far as the pups would go into the yard. And the last pic, you can barely tell, is the surprise Harley found in the kitchen on the coldest night. This was taken AFTER it was disposed of and moved out of the reach of curious doggies.

And Snow Again!

Today, it hit again! The flakes just keep getting bigger and bigger. An hour ago, it was maybe an inch in diameter, but now I bet it's 2 inches! I've tried to take pictures--that big blob on my glove is one flake. As I stood there waiting for one to land on my hand, it was landing all over the rest of me. It's like little snowballs falling. I wish I could get the pups out there so you could really see, but they won't. I'll keep trying. It looks like ashes from a brush fire. Stay warm!!

Snow!

So this is what it looked like the next morning!! I don't remember the last time I saw this much snow. It got back up into the 50s that same afternoon and yesterday!