Blast from the Past!

A couple of weeks ago I got a comment from my friend MICHELLE GRATZINGER...who I haven't seen in forever! We were such good friends in middle school, then one day she got in a food fight at lunch and got kicked out! I know...way dumb. Well, she went to a different school for 9th grade and all of high school and we lost touch. So, you can imagine, I was way excited to see a comment from her! I was way excited, but when I clicked on her name to see her blog...she didn't have one! So now I have no idea how to contact her. So ATTN: MICHELLE GRATZINGER if you read this...MAKE A BLOG or email me...heidiherway@gmail.com

Oh and everyone should know Michelle too. I remember having so much fun with her in middle school! She was way funny and loved to eat as much as I do! FYI...I love people who love to eat as much as I do.

Chillin Out Max

I think we're posing. I don't know if we're supposed to be reverent or gangsta. This is Pete and me.

I've been tagged

I was tagged by my cousin Rachel. What I'm supposed to do is tell you six things not commonly known about me. When I'm done with it I'm supposed to tag some other people so I'm tagging Lara, Melanie, Natalie, Anita, and Hailee. Here we go:

1. Like Rachel, I think Rachel said this: I am SO AFRAID OF LARGE BODIES OF WATER. I think part of it is that you don't know what's under you! I was told that they have never found the bottom of Bear Lake. That means that anything could be living in it, like some lake sea monster! I also saw a movie once when there were like pirhana's in a fresh water lake. You never know, some pyscho person could breed a species of fresh water pirhanas in Lake Powell. PIRHANAS will EAT you. Of course, I am also afraid of sharks and I don't need to explain that one. But I am also afraid of all fish. Seth tried to make me snorkel in Greece this summer and I lasted .25 minutes. Just long enough to put my face in the water, see a tiny, translucent fish,and freak out. When I was younger I used to think that swimming pools had sharks in cages behind the pools walls and at night they let the sharks out to swim. I always worried that someone would accidentally let the sharks out when we were swimming during the day. I still wonder sometimes.

2. I WAS ALMOST ARRESTED FOR BUYING BEER WITH A FAKE ID. It's not how it sounds, but of course, this all came about because of stupid boys. I was hanging out with some friends one night in Salt Lake. These friends wanted to play billiards at a place where ID was required. I was only 20 at the time, so I had to let them down by saying I couldn't go. Then some wise-a got the idea that it would be SO funny if they tried to get me in with a fake ID. Then another person thought it would be even FUNNIER if they drew a goatee on my face, put a baseball cap on my head, and sent me into the 7-11 to see what the cashier would do if I tried to buy beer with a fake id. Not just anyone's id, but a very large man, which I believe of Middle Eastern descent. (He was with us, it wasn't just some random guy) Now, we were all LDS and didn't want to actually buy the beer, they just wanted to see the cashier's reaction to my ridiculously drawn-on goatee. So, I went in, grabbed a Corona or two and some gum and went to check out. The cashier didn't bat an eye at my goatee and asked for my id. I showed it to her. Cashier: "This is fake. I'm calling the police." Me and everyone else:"No! We were kidding, it's just a joke!" Cashier:"I don't care, it's against the law." The police were called, they arrived, looked at me and started laughing. No charges were filed and I was free to go.

3. I RAPPED MY SIXTH GRADE STUDENT COUNCIL SPEECH: It went like this:
"Hey Joe, Whadda you know?
Student Council is my show
So walk real fast and don't be slow
Vote this week for Heidi Ho!

Got a beef? Want to groan?
I'll make your wants and wishes known
So walk real fast and don't be slow
Vote this week for Heidi Ho!

Be a deer, be a doe,
Be a Larry, Curly, or a Moe
So walk real fast don't tippy toe
and vote this week for Heidi Ho

Student Council is the place
To represent each sixth grade face
So vote me and you'll see
that Heidi Ho is the way to go!
Heidi Ho is the way to go
Heidi Ho is the way to go"

My dad wrote it. And yes, I won. Boo-yeah.

4. I GAINED AROUND 15 POUNDS IN RUSSIA. I have the pictures to prove it but I definitely am not going to post them. I wasn't fed very healthy food while I was there, didn't exercise much, and my daily Snickers bar didn't help much either. Everyone in my group gained weight as well so I guess I just didn't notice I was blowing up so much. We also discovered these chocolate covered cream cheese bar things. The were kinda like little cheesecakes. I know, you're all thinking, "You're lucky you only gained 15! Daily Snickers and chocolate covered CREAM CHEESE?!?! No duh!" Different rules apply when abroad.

5. ALONG WITH MY DOUBLES PARTNER, EMILY BROADWATER, I PLAYED JV TENNIS MY SOPHOMORE, JUNIOR, AND YES, MY SENIOR YEAR. Don't feel sad for us. We were awesome. Our coach however, did not think we were so awesome. I believe he called us "flaky, airheaded, ditsy, and they don't take tennis seriously" something like that. No hard feelings, Jim Hashimoto. We were the coolest JV Seniors ever. We wore intimidating bandanas on our heads, way rockin' sunglasses, we grunted every time we hit to intimidate the other team, and we had a victory dance. We won every game and not just our senior year, cuz of course, we were seniors playing JV! But we were region champs our junior year too. Did you know you can letter for being on JV 3 years in a row? Well you can, it's way cool. Our coach seriously hated us though. The day of our yearbook picture for the tennis team, we were 1 second late and he wouldn't let us be in the picture. We got him back though. We had our own picture of the two of us put on the tennis page and Emily was even quoted! Take that Jim!

6. MY CLOSET DESIRE IS TO BE IN A BROADWAY MUSICAL. I can't carry a tune at all. I think the term is "tone-deaf." But I just think it looks like so much fun to act and sing and wear fun costumes. It'll never happen, well lets hope it doesn't happen. That would be a terrible musical.

Tates and Toot wish you a Happy Thanksgiving!

In honor of Thanksgiving I decided to post this pic. This must be like 12 years old because I think Taylor is only 4 or 5. Aren't they so cute! We spent Thanksgiving in Heber (as we usually do) at Alan and Mary Bluth's house. My Aunt Vicky was up for that Thanksgiving and everytime she's around she always brings a craft, so we all made these frames. This picture is of Taylor and our cousin Ali when they were probably 5. Ali got the nickname Toot, when everyone was telling her how cute she was and she replied, "I not toot!" (toot=cute)Tates got her nickname because she is my father's child and nobody really knows where his nicknames come from. :) Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Enjoy all the turkey, rolls, and pies you can handle!

Our Very First Anniversary!

Seth and I celebrated our one year anniversary this past weekend. We went up to Wolf Creek Resort in Eden, Utah. It was gorgeous up there! Although, we did drive through Ogden to get there, and I have to say, Ogden is quite the dump. (No offense to anyone who likes Ogden.) I was also sick with a cold which was a bummer, but we still had a great time.

My parents gave us an anniversary present of a DVD with all of our wedding pictures set to music. It was so fun to watch and relive that perfect day! Seth and I have said so many times how perfect that day was!

I feel so lucky that I got to marry Seth and that he wanted to marry me too! I really couldn't ask for a better person to have as my husband. He treats me so much better than I deserve. I thought that I loved him when we were engaged and when we got married, but it's amazing how much more I just keep loving him! I can't imagine what it's going to be like when we're 80! That's gonna be a lot of love! :) Everyone knows how great Seth is, but I just wanted everyone to know that I know how wonderful he is too.

We Danced The Night Away!

One of my favorite things about our wedding day, was by far the dancing! I had so much fun at our reception and I think anyone who has seen Seth dance, knows how entertaining it is! He really is a good dancer, but he sure gets into it! His tux was SOAKED with sweat by the end of the night! For days after our reception we both kept saying how much fun we had! We hope everyone who came had fun too!

Conference Champs!

Lanx and her UVU team won their conference tournament last Sunday! It was a great game, despite a really lame referee. He called a bunch of stuff against UVU but failed to notice when lanx totally got WWF'd. Seriously, this girl grabbed Lanx around her waist, flipped her, and dropped her! It reminded Taylor of a game my dad used to do with us (without the dropping part) and it was called BowWowSkiWatinDaddle. So the new term for getting body slammed in a soccer game is now "getting BowWowSkiWatinDaddled." It was still a great game though and there were a bunch of Lanx's friends and supporters there. Grandma Shaw came all the way up from St. George just to watch the game! Seth was sporting his St. Patrick's day suit for the special occasion as well.