Spring is here...

May has turned into a crazy month these days... May 2, 3 and 4 we have Anthony's Bellas and Dave jr's birthday. May 8th Kelly & I celebrate our 29th wedding anniversary, It's hard to believe I'm that old, but Kelly??? for sure. UPDATE - Kelly just noted it is 28 years not 29. I suppose now I am going to need the extra year to save up for the really nice trip I'm going to have to plan for our 30th to make up for my poor math skills :0)
May 9 is Moms day (in case you haven't bought your cards yet, and May 27th Jessy's birthday (not to mention Memorial day). All this activity is one of the reasons the blog is a couple days delinquent... sorry about that.

I was going to blather on about the history of Cinco de Mayo, but I missed my opportunity by a day. Besides I was informed by a cab driver in Puerto Vallarta a couple years ago that it's really not a national holiday in Mexico. From what I can gather on the internet, it is celebrated in one state in Mexico, and at numerous bars in the U.S. Any reason for happy hour and a buritto I suppose.

Gordy is still living with us. I haven't reached the end of my rope with raising a puppy quite yet. Although, if anyone has any suggestions for curbing his need to dig all the plants in the back yard up, I'd love to hear it.

The countdown to the wedding is well under way. A shower this month, another in chicago next month, then the big day For Anthony & Jessy in July. Jessy is feverishly applying for work in Chicago. She has had a few interviews already, and feels pretty confident with her prospects.

Dave, Lauren, Bella and Austin are great. Bella has really accepted her new brother into the fam with open arms. She's lightened up on G-diddy a bit. I can even walk in and say hi to Austin first without being shunned. Sorry no new pics this month, we had sort of a snafu on the computer... all my files mysteriously disappeared (pics and all). I was able to recoup the important ones, and I had backed up a bunch of stuff last month, but we have about a one month vortex.

Golf league started this week, and Dave jr and I have a softball team that has a record of 2 - 1 already. Just trying to keep up with the young guys, but it's getting harder each year.

As for Real Estate... The first time home buyer credit expired April 30th. There was a huge flurry of activity for about 3 weeks prior to that. Needless to say I am off to a pretty good start for 2010. It doesn't appear that there will be an extension of the credit, so the industry has a wait and see attitude right now about the affect the expiration will have locally.

The good news is, I think we saw a pretty good amount of homes flushed from the system. Now if we can just keep steadily improving, we should be in good shape moving forward. I picked up 3 new listings this week, and still have buyers in the pipeline... all is good with the world.

As always, I truly appreciate the referrals you graciously give me. Hopefully you know by now, your family and friends are my family and friends.

See you in June.