Boring March

^The fish in December, only 2 months old!

^Little fish in Decebmer

^The fish in March, 5 months old

Gary sold 37 Angelfish he raised! That was a big event. We drove to Centenial which is about 30 minutes away. Tricky thing is, we headed there right before a big snow storm. Right about when we arrived the snow started coming down hard! It just kept going and going. We ended up driving back in the middle of it all. It wasn’t too exciting other than the four car accidents we passed and the fact that it took us about 2 hours to drive home.

These are 4 of the 6 that we kept.

My little brother turned 12 this week. That’s scary to think about. He’s apparently five foot six inches which is about a foot larger than I remember him.

Taxes are still going well. I’m sometimes impressed with how much I know considering I knew nothing as of December. I’m a little afraid of running the office the last week of the year. I guess that will be a true test of my knowledge. Only about 3 weeks left till tax season is over! Then I’m going to organize my house in a detailed manor.

Speaking of house, the house is back on the market. That’s good and bad. We hope it sells for Kent’s sake but the showings can be annoying. I clean like crazy every morning making sure it’s spotless. Then agents leave lights on, doors unlocked, mud on the floor. Of course the messy rude ones are also the ones who don’t leave cards. But, we don’t mind the showings when we are already gone and I love showing off my cute house!

 Gary and I holding the 7lb burrito from Jack N Grill! It fed 4 of us 3 times!

Spring is Near!!!

Oh goodness, I'm excited! It's been so nice around here! This week has been a sunny and warm one. My flowers are even starting to bloom again and now that it's warm, we get to bring out the motorcycle!

Today Gary drove me around downtown Denver on the bike. It was spectacular! I LOVE being free, living in Denver and I especially love this warm weather. I'm sure it's not here to stay though, since March is Denver's snowiest month of the year. You know though? For being a snowy state it sure didn't snow much this winter. I think I can handle this Colorado stuff. In fact, I'm seriously in love.

Speaking of love, we bought a love sac with our tax refund money! You may have heard, we can't fit a couch through the living room door so, a beanbag has to do the trick for now. I'm excited though. These things are so huge and comfortable that even after we move and get older, we can still put the bean bag to good use. Guests can sleep on it, we can throw it in the office as a nice reading spot. It's just so unbelievably cozy! Here is a picture of Gary (as we speak) enjoying it as he plays a video game. As you may be able to see, it easily fits 2 adults or 4 very close friends (Gary's family wouldn't hesitate to all get cozy on that thing)!

 

Other than that, life is still the same. Tax season is still moving along. I'm far from as fearful about taxes now though. In fact, I'm not afraid of this whole tax thing at all! Gary has been busy helping with taxes as well but he's still managing to get some web stuff done for his own business as well. He's a hardworking guy!

My restaurant blog is picking up! It's now Colorado's 6th/7th (depending on the day) most popular blog (out of 41) according to Urbanspoon. It's becoming quite a bit of fun. In fact, this Tuesday, we are attending a VIP event in Boulder as a celebration of Smashburger's first location in Boulder. We'll be mingling among the Smashburger executives and other foodie people trying the new menu (on the house) the day before the store's grand opening. I'm thrilled!

There you have it! That's all that's happening around here as of late. Thank you for reading my blog, I appreciate it!

Happy Love Day!

I love Valentines day. I think most of you know that already though. I don't love it because of the huge commercialism it has brought to our nation. I love it because of the colors! The decorations. I just love it! Growing up, my mom always made the day special by giving us special little treats. One year she make a huge heart shaped chocolate chip cookie for me with my name on it! It's just special!

This year Gary and I started a new tradition. Well, I suppose I started a new tradition and Gary participated. I've decided to make crème brulée! It's a fancy, French dessert and it just shouts "Valentines Day"! I also wanted to make a special dinner so I threw some things together and ended up with pecan crusted salmon with steamed asparagus. It was simply amazing!

As I was out purchasing my ingredients for the crème brulée Gary decided his gift to me would be an Orchid. I've wanted an Orchid for about a year now and was so excited to finally have an excuse to get one! 

So our Valentines Day was simple, but fun! I look forward to making our new special treat each year!

Gary's Sick....

Well, this past week I did about 8 tax returns! I finally feel comfortable doing a simple return. If it's too complicated I hand it off to someone else and go back to processing. It's really not so bad. I really don't mind all the assembling and calling and the taxes themselves.

Gary and I went to one of his friends houses last night for the first time. He name is Wendy. They are Evony buddies and since they both live in the Denver area and are LDS Wendy suggested we come over for dinner. It was wonderful! She made probably the best tasting soup I've ever had! It was a creamy enchilada soup. Oh how divine! I was practically full once I was done with the soup but to my surprise, the soup was just the beginning. Next she brought out plates served with salad with a cilantro dressing and chicken enchiladas. It was an amazing dinner!! As if the dinner wasn't amazing enough she finished the meal off with home made Crème brûlée. If only I could share with you, the glorious, amazing deliciousness. It was amazing! 

Taxes and.... Phyco Me!

Since the year has started Gary and I have started helping his dad out with his Liberty Tax offices. Gary volunteers his time from 9:00 to 11:00 to run the store that he works at. When there are no customers Gary carries on about his normal day, running his buissness in the back of the office.

I was asked to go to the other office to learn how to process the tax returns. It's been an interesting experience so far. I've learned how to process (double check or audit returns and assemble them) and have that part of the job pretty much mastered. Preparing the taxes is another story. I can do it, but first of all I don't want to and second of all... I don't know as much about taxes as the other preparers so I ask them to take the returns when possible. I have so far, done 1 return myself and started 2 past year returns. So far I've found that I really dislike taxes with a passion. When people come in and say "Yeah I just don't want to deal with taxes so I bring them to someone else" I have to hold back from saying "Oh me too! I don't do my own taxes". Ha ha ha. Sad huh? I can do taxes just fine, I just really don't enjoy it.

I'm happy I can help family though! I sign out when I don't have a task to save Kent money which helps cut costs. I luckly have been able to leave at 3:00 too which has kept my sanity. I need my free time or I go phyco. I found that out last week. Wow, I had a break down! With the holidays and a new schedual and being told what to do left and right I seriously lost it! I thought I was going to have to be put in a padded room! Gary is pretty amazing though and really calmed me down. He's the sweetest husband. It's amazing how he knows whats going on with me so much better than I do! I'm thankful for that. Anyway, I realized I need more time in a day. A life consisting of "working", getting home at 5:45-6:00, cooking, cleaning, getting a little sleep and starting over again was really not ok with me. The house was not clean and that alone makes me upset. Add lack of sleep to that and I'm really ticked. Then! Top it off with no alone time and apparently I go crazy. But hey, at least we figured that out!

Now we either get home at 4:00 or I go shopping and run errands before I get Gary at 5:00.Then I go home cook, Gary helps clean because he's the greatest and we relax for a couple hours and get a full nine hours of sleep. That equation equals happy me. And there you have, my life.