The girls are both in Joy School right now and their Valentine’s Day party was today. They got all dolled up and were so excited to give their friends presents.

Piper’s Valentines

Attalie’s Valentines

One of my best friends from high school is visiting for a few months. Here husband is a Marine deployed in Afghanistan and she just had her second baby (a darling little girl), so she’s here in Phoenix so her family can lend a hand.

It’s been so lucky for me though to have her close by. We’ve been hanging out lots, and happy to find we still have lots in common and lots to laugh about.

I took some pictures of Stephanie and her girls to send to their Daddy for Valetine’s Day

I will be so sad when she heads back home to Utah.

Heath’s folks decided to take a break from the frosty Wyoming winter and come down for a visit. We put them to work helping build a playhouse/swingset for the girls. Heath’s mom and I also made lots of lemon meringue pie!

Digging the footings.

The girls handprints in the concrete for one of the posts.

Heath and Mom putting on the floor boards.

Working on the trusses.

Sadly Mom & Dad Hirschi had to head home too soon! We snapped a few pictures before they left.

Come tour our new house and see all the progress we’ve made, plus our fun Christmas decorations. It was just a few months ago that our house looked like this, and here it is now.

I saw this contest Shade clothing was holding for its fifth anniversary, and I just knew I had to do it.

I really believe I am one of Shade’s biggest fans, but I had been wracking my brain about how to prove it. First I thought about piling up all my Shade stuff and then taking a picture, but I didn’t think that was very exciting. Heath suggested I put on all my Shade clothes at once (like Joey on Friends) and take a picture. I had to agree that would be pretty funny, but as I started counting all my Shade stuff I knew that would be impossible. So I was back to the picture idea, and I DID start making that pile, but then I realized that I would basically have to unpack my entire closet, and I just couldn’t bring myself to do it because I really didn’t want to have to put it all back away. (LOL!) Then I thought I could take a picture of my closet, but it’s not very photogenic.

After I had pretty much given up, I suddenly thought, well if I am truly Shade’s biggest fan than I should have hundreds of pictures ALREADY to prove it. I’ve been through my recent family photos, and made a collage of some of my favorite pics, and yes, I’m wearing Shade in every one of them! I have tons more photos that wouldn’t fit on the page, but I think you get the point: I LOVE SHADE!

Here is my entry:

We got one of these from our cousins, and the girls begged me to make one of them. They keep watching it over and over and laugh SO hard while they’re watching that it cracks me up.

For those of you who don’t read The Mommy Times (shame on you! j/k), I thought you would enjoy my recent post there:

Why do kids like to run around naked? Ever since we potty trained my two year old, we can’t seem to get her to keep her clothes on. I swear every time I turn around, the kid is streaking around the house in her birthday suit. What’s worse, both my girls have been obsessed with the Hannah Montana movie lately, and watch it at least once a day. So more than once, I have walked into the TV room to find my child, nude, standing on the table and singing the “Boom-Boom-Clap” song from the movie.

Table dancing at two. Do you think I should be worried?

Heath and I were just listening to Hugh Hewitt and he had a suggestion for putting a stop to the devastating Health Care bill being considered by Congress. Read Hugh’s explanation on his blog then donate $10 for Tark. We just did.

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A compilation of photos from Heath’s 100-Mile Ride earlier this Spring. He did it with Ryan, my Dad and a kid from church.