18 days to go......

So we are now getting to the end of tax season.....18 days to go. Even though I have only worked a little bit... and mostly on the weekends. Still it will be nice to have it all over. Yes the extra money is great and is going towards my honeymoon.... It will be nice to be able to come home right after my normal job and not have to worry about heading to the 2nd office for a few hours.
Spring is really here....other than a little "bite" of winter last week. We have had nice enough temps to pull out the lighter coat and I have even been able to wear sandals a day or 2. I can't tell you how much I hate winter and live for summer time. I have even gotten my swim suits already to try to hurry the warmer weather along.
Wedding plans are still going... we picked up my dress a couple of weeks ago and I have taken my shoes into get dyed... just waiting for them to come back. Yesterday, I checked with my hair dresser and we will start practicing with hairdos in a month or so. Once May 1st rolls around we will start up again with major wedding plans. We have made all the major decisions, now it is all the small stuff. We will be ordering our rings and picking tuxes next month and then The mother will get involved again....with decorating, deciding menus and programs.
Everyone is finally healthy again and looking forward to shaking off the winter blues.... I guess that is it for me..

The first slight of spring

Finally the first glimmers of spring are starting to appear. Living in Iowa is tough... but last week we got a little break from the snow and ice, with temps that were in the 50's. it has been a long hard winter with lots of snow.... so now everything is melting... which means flooding. So I'm not sure which is worse.... the blizzards or the floods. At least the weather is nicer and you don't have to bundle up like an Eskimo.
Even though the weather is nice, I haven't been able to really enjoy it, since it is smack dab in the middle of tax season. So between overtime at my normal job and coming to help out at the office... I haven't seen the sun in a while. But that's alright.... cause we decided that Maui is where we are going on our honeymoon and very extra penny will need to count. Speaking of honeymoon, wedding planning is still going. Even though Howie put a stop to the talking about it at the office.... we ( the Mother and I) are still working out details. About 3 weeks ago we go the invitations, napkins and thank you notes. Everything looked exactly the way I wanted them too... so that was a plus. The biggest thing is that I'm going to pick up my dress tomorrow. After waiting for over 4 months for it to come in, it is finally here. So like I said Howie, The Mother, Rands and I will be heading to the little bridal shop to get it. Also we will be deciding on veils.... I had both The Mother's and Rands veils pressed, so I can figure out if I like either of them with my dress... I'm hoping that Rands will look good, since that is really the one I want to wear. Now that I have my dress, I can go get every one's shoes dyed. All the bridesmaids have had their shoes for a while but I wanted to wait till I have my dress, so I didn't have to make multiple trips to the dye place. Also next month we can go pick out tuxes, since once again I needed to have a swatch of my dress so we know what color to match for Skinny's tux.
Everyone is doing good, Izzie and C.J. are full fledged crawlers and will be walking soon. Izzie is still the toothless wonder, but she can gum anything like a champ. Both babies have been sick, but I think it is finally past it.... C.J. got tubes in his ears a week ago and Izzie is at the end of her antibiotics. So it looks like they are ready for spring too. A.B. is still loving his new job and Big L. is doing good. The Beau is surviving tax season being full time parent at night for Izzie. Howie and The Mother are both is good health finally and trying to count down the days till the end of tax season.
So that is about it for me......Passover is coming soon, so I'm sure I will have lots of stories to tell about that. Since this year The Mother will be having 2 Seders.... it should be for some interesting reading.