Locks of Love

Patrick and his new doo.

It was hair cut day at the Harrigans. First Patrick and I went to the barber, though, from looking at his picture he did not get his cut much (though it looks a lot better!). Then, we met the girls where both Ellie and Mary got their hair cut.

Ellison getting a trim

It was the second time that Mary had grown her hair out long enough so they could cut 10 inches off for Locks of Love. Locks of Love is a program where they take hair and make hair pieces for kids (and adults) who are either battling cancer or have Alopecia. The first time Mary did it I was raising funds for a Team in Training ride for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. A few weeks after she had her hair cut, we found out her cousin, Jackson Odle, had Alopecia. We are very proud of her for doing this for Locks of Love. And she sure does look cute!

Mary with her new haircut.

The Harrigans are doing well. Amy is starting to become uncomfortable. Mainly her back hurts (has nothing to do with the shoes she might wear......). Our peanut is going on 18 weeks old. We will find out on Feb. 23rd if we are having Jack Ephrim (my money is on Jack) or a girl. We get to do a 3-D high def ultrasound, which should be pretty cool.

I will be in UT next week staying at the Firth Resort and Spa and then the next week, I go to Colorado. I have not been to Utah since Christmas, and I am looking forward to seeing everyone.

Amy is going to fly up and spend a day with mein Colorado. It is Franklin American's Annual Summit Meeting (we, and some other vendors, take people on the ski train to Winter Park to ski). While is sounds like a bit of a boondoggle, it is amazing the relationships that are created. Amy won't ski this year, but will just ride up on the train and hang out at the lodge for the day. I am excited to have coming along. And.....this year we won't staying at a Drury Inn like we did last year (the bed felt like a piece of plywood and that is being nice...).

On a related note, I learned last year from Amy's Uncle Ted, that her Great-Grandfather use to ride in one of the train cars used for the Ski Train, every month to attend a board meeting in Denver. He would take the Rio Grande train from Salt Lake City to Denver. He was on the board of Directors of Rio Grande. I thought that was pretty cool!

Patrick has his annual charity concert at School the 13th. He is playing his guitar and singing, On a Mexican Radio, originally performed by A Wall of Voodoo. Ellie and Mary both have projects for school we are working on. Amy is going crazy from the kids playing Rock Band all the time.

I hope you are well. I was bummed to not be able to make it to Iowa for PigBoy's 40th Birthday Bash. Seems so strange that PigBoy is 40. I still remember that day I took him out to Saylorville Lake for his first real mountain bike ride. It was the same day he bet me I couldn't eat a whole ear of sweetcorn without stopping. He lost the bet.......

Love

PJ

Go Cards...Bummer

Arizona...Kurt Warner...Superbowl...what could be better???? I guess them winning would have been better. What a week it has been in Arizona. Everywhere you go, it's Cardinals-mania. Elli's school even let then wear Cardinals Red every day this week rather than uniforms so all the kids were excited. In fact on Friday, it was "All Out Cardinals" Day, so I painted Elli's face with a Cardinal and she was so excited.

We had a couple of families over for a SuperBowl party and PJ whipped up some awesome food for everyone including homemade lasagne, guacamole and bread pudding...how did I get so lucky?

We have another tough week in the mortgage business, but had a great week personally. PJ and I had date night on Wednesday and we went to the Mesa Temple. We were excited because we hadn't been together to the temple since Christmas in Salt Lake. When we got there, they asked if we wanted to do sealings so we did. We were in the sealing room waiting for the last couple to enter and when they did, I leaned over and said, "PJ, I know that guy." Of course PJ didn't think anything about it assuming I knew them from church or something, but I said, "No, that guy used to work for me about 10 years ago." When the guy, John Shroeder, recognized me, he about had a heart attack...he had to stop and check where he was. Needless to say when he knew me 10 yearas ago, the last place he would guessed he would have run into was the temple. So quickly we had to catch everyone up that I had divorced, recently come back to the church, remarried and was expecting a baby that would be born in the covenant. It was quite a trip for him. We did eventually get to talk outside the temple and catch up and it was great. He was always a great guy and it was really interesting to think back about how much things can change.

PJ has a new hobby that is driving me nuts...Facebooking. It only drives me nuts because he knows how to do it and I don't...I know I am competitive. I am going to make him teach me how so that I can annoy him by being online with all my friends just like he is doing to me. He teased me all during church by pointing out all his "friends" in the ward. He knows it drives me nuts that he is being more "cool" than I am.

This is a fairly busy week for us. We have a doctor's appointment on Monday and lots of appointments this week. Please keep us in your prayers as you will all be in ours.