I just filed my taxes online and it is soooooo easy!! If you go through www.irs.gov and use turbotax it is free of charge and it does everything for you. Don't do your state taxes with that because it will charge you $20 dollars. Once you have done your federal taxes go to www.iltax.com and file your state taxes for free!!! I have always done my taxes myself and it is so much easier to file them online. Plus you can get direct deposit. I will get both of my returns within in 10 days. I am very excited by all of this. hehe
Using some Christmas gift certificates I bought paint brushes and some canvas to do some artwork for our house. I sure hope that it turns out well! Now I just have to figure out what type of paint I'm going to use.
I bought a picture frame from Kohl's that has 3 5X7 slots for only $10. I'm using it for my siblings school pictures. That way instead of having the pics lay around I can actually put them up on the wall.
I have been reading the book "The Rescue" by Nicholas Sparks. He is an awesome writer. I have 3 or 4 of his books and every single one has been hard to put down because it is so good. Nicholas Sparks is the one that wrote "The Notebook." To be honest, the other books that I have read by him I have liked better than "The Notebook." I want to see the movie so that I can see how similar the movie and the book are. I had to wait to see the movie until after I read the book. :)
Mark and I went out to Rock Cut State Park. It was so nice out there. I really miss riding bikes and just enjoying nature. We got there and the lake was beautiful! There were a ton of geese and ducks right around the small area of the lake that was not frozen. We took some pictures and will put them up on the site very soon.