Take Your Pick!

So every year as a part of the Heath family Christmas tradition there is an annual Gingerbread house competition. This year things got a little intense. I don't know if it was due simply to the fact that I was involved, or because the level of competitiveness between family members has just naturally increased over the years, but this time the gingerbread houses took a solid 6 hours to create. You read that right. 6... SIX hours. A lot of work for such a ridiculous thing right? Wrong! It is was worth it, and it's so worth the bragging rights that will come from winning the competition. That's where each one of you comes in. We need your votes!!!! Let us know which gingerbread house you enjoy and which team you think should have bragging rights for the next 365 days. Merry Christmas to all!! And if I might suggest, pick the right one ;)... Or else...

SANTA'S PARADISE

SANTA'S NIGHTMARE

Spicing up life!

Look! Look! Another post and it hasn't even been a month! That's got to be a record :)

The last few weeks have fallen in step with the rest of this semester and been completely INSANE, but we still managed to enjoy ourselves! It all started off with Cassie's coming of age... That is, she's legal now! (My oh my, they do grow up fast don't they?) So, to celebrate Cassie's birthday we ended up doing a lot of activities in which people can drink, except there was no drinking involved!!! The funny thing was that it wasn't all planned to go that way. It started with dinner at the Olive Garden (a must for Cassie's birthday). The place was packed, so we decided to sit in the bar/cafe area. The funny thing is, being in Provo the waiters didn't think anything of it, and I'm pretty sure they didn't even offer us an alcoholic drink (maybe they thought Cassie still wasn't old enough...). So we stuffed ourselves silly with salad, breadsticks, and pasta, and then rolled ourselves out to the parking lot to head home.
Little did Cassie know that there was a little surprise waiting for her at home that I had been putting together all week right under her nose!!! While we were gone I had some of our good friends come over, decorate the place, and get it all spiffed up for the after-dinner party. I like to think that the Birthday Princess had a great time seeing all her friends and playing games with them late into the night. It was a lot of fun!

The next weekend was our ward Halloween party, which was SO much fun! Earlier in the month Cassie had mentioned the idea of us dressing up as Salt and Pepper shakers, but nothing ever came from it... that is, until the day of the party when it was about two hours before it started and we realized we still didn't have any costume put together! So, the Salt and Pepper shaker idea stuck, and 96 cents later we were all rolled up in our construction paper with a large 'S' and 'P' plastered onto our chests. Of course, we were the hit of the party (or was everyone just laughing at our ridiculous costumes?). Anyways, we were put into a group of star couples and the dream team group #5 battled their way through the competition and ended up taking first place in the Halloween games by a land slide. This was due to the fact that we were amazing in charades, and maybe a little bit because (seeing that I have an awkwardly large mouth), I was volunteered for, and completely dominated, the donut on a string game. Award? Heck yes. Can you say free ice cream at Cold Stone?!?! It was great going out and chilling with the rest of the group enjoying our wonderful, flavorful, creamy victory ice cream. That's right. Be jealous :)

Now we are just battling to get through the next few weeks of school until we get to head home for Thanksgiving and take a quick breather. Good thing it's soon, because we're running out of air!!!!!!

Isn't it about... time.

For some of you reading this blog, you're probably thinking yes... Yes Dallin, it is about time considering you said you were going to post a blog in April! And it is now October. Then there's others who just happen to be passing through the blogging world and chanced upon this and don't really care. And that leaves the majority of you who don't even realize that I'm referring to you and could care less about what is said in this post.
But, for those of you who really do care about what's going on in our newly-wed, college going, hard-working lives, here's a little update:
As always, time is of the essence, and Cassie and I have very little of it. I find myself getting out of bed before 3 am, 3 days week to be able to get to work on time. This wouldn't be so bad if I could rest after working, but school has it's demands, and typically we're up late the nights I don't have to work early, so often I'm up for close to 24 hours. It can often turn out to be quite an adventure. Cassie isn't far behind. She wakes up around 5 on the same days and doesn't exactly get a break during the day either. It's a tough schedule, but we're glad to have steady jobs and we make due with what we have.
So as for a super huge review of the past 6 months or so....
June 26, 2010 was the big day. It's was wonderful to share our wedding day with friends and family. We couldn't have been happier to see everyone who made it and we missed all of you who couldn't. Just as most couples feel, the whole day was kind of a blur for us, but we do remember those key moments like being in the temple with our family and friends, etc. We had to put this picture in of Grandpa for all the family. Is that not the best picture you've seen of Grandpa smiling? I think all the family would appreciate this picture. We love it!
After the big day we enjoyed an awesome week at Disney World. It was Cassie's first time, so I had the pleasure of showing her the ropes :) I made sure that we went on Jungle Cruise, Pirates, Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, and of course the Country Bears. We hit up plenty of other rides like Rockin' Roller Coaster and Tower of Terror, so we got the excitement along with the classic Disney. We were even able to have dinner in Cinderella's castle!! Cassie was in heaven with all the princesses walking around greeting everyone. She got a picture with each one, and even though I didn't let her wear a crown, she did get a princess wand during dinner, and I got a sword! Woohoo!
We enjoyed the rest of the summer working here in Provo, except for week break to hit up the Hague family reunion in Idaho. That was a great, relaxing week that we had with the family and we want to go back so bad!!! A fall break would hit the spot about now.

We've been doing the whole school thing lately, which isn't all that exciting, but I guess it's necessary. We're enjoying most of our classes, but also looking forward to having a break from them. We get the occasional break from school by hanging out with friends, going to football games (though those aren't always the most fun considering how we're doing this year), and just sitting at home and relaxing for a little while.

And.... I think it's probably pretty obvious that I've kind of lost interest by now, and I'm guessing so have you, so I'm going to wrap things up now. Hopefully the next post will be sometime sooner than six months from now!

*Sigh*... We love this place...

Slacker

Well, an awful lot has happened since the last time we posted something, but no worries! Posts and pictures will soon be up to all those who have the desire to read about our various activities for the last little while. I'm bored at work, so it looks like I might have some time to do stuff in the next few days. Keep an eye out!

Weekend full of fun in the s.....snow

Cassie and I were able to enjoy ourselves this weekend with all the excitement of General Conference. As is custom, everyone and his dog here in Provo was having a mission reunion over the weekend. Early I was pleasantly surprised to find out that my mission president was going to be in Salt Lake, and the a mission reunion was being planned for Friday! Well, the time came and everything worked out so that Cassie and I were able to go. I obviously was super excited to see all of my old companions and friends, and especially see the president again. Cassie wasn't so excited just because she figured she wasn't going to be able to understand anything (which was true to a certain extent, but not completely). She was a good sport though, and let me drag her along :D
We also had the chance to attend General Conference at the conference center on Sunday morning thanks to my wonderful roommate Jeff. Thanks again for the tickets Jeff! The session was great! And it was really cool too because we went early enough to see the Mormon Tabernacle Choir perform the 4,203 broadcast of Music and the Spoken Word. It was awesome! They closed with Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, which is such a powerful number, especially when MoTab sings it, so the whole experience was pretty much amazing. It was great listening to the prophet and leaders of the church this weekend, and both of us walked away feeling uplifted and wanting to be better people. After watching conference we decided to take some pictures in temple square and happened to run into Elayna and some of her friends as we were taking pictures.
Later that night we were invited over for dinner at the cousins. It was great food and great company! Thank you Daryl and Annie for letting us come over and helping out us poor college students. We appreciate it so much!
Other than that Cassie and I are just trying to survive these last couple of weeks of classes and finals, along with planning the wedding. We're busy, but it's great because it's helping time go by a lot quicker!

HKN - Eta Kappa Nu

I was recently invited to become a part of the BYU chapter of the Eta Kappa Nu Engineering Society. This is a group of "outstanding" electrical and computer engineers who have met the requirements of the group (specifically GPA... which wouldn't have been anywhere close if it weren't for the wonderful 16 credit portuguese test I took last semester!). It was kind of a surprise that I was invited considering I really am just barely starting the program... Anyways, I was inducted into this group and Cassie and I had the chance to attend the induction ceremony/banquet. It was quite the experience. Cassie has been giving me kind of a hard time about the whole thing... and I though I've tried to disagree with Cassie about it, I guess I am an electrical engineer... which makes me an official geek :P Well the banquet proved that a little bit... Especially when the keynote speaker said "You can't spell geek without an EE." Great... Well... He also said that double E's make great husbands, so that's a plus... (except his reasoning was that possibly they didn't have much of a social life, so they do their best when they finally find one...) So, after being inducted and making fun of the whole thing a little bit, I decided to be kind of involved, and so I attended the election meetings for the leadership for next year... And I've now put my foot in my mouth because I left that meeting President of the Eta Kappa Nu BYU chapter. But it didn't really work out how one might expect. Besides some of the leadership from this year, I was 1 of 2 people who were there to participate. Not exactly the biggest showing. So the two of us tried to be extremely passive trying to push the Presidency off to the other one at the meeting. After about ten minutes of this, I was tired and finally just turned to the others there and told them to "just put my name down." Not exactly an election. But... Oh well... It'll look great on my resume, right? Ok, I'm not going to lie, I am kind of excited to do this, because it's finally a chance I have to get involved at BYU. I really haven't done much. So it should be good :) Wish me luck!

Cupcakes Galore!!!!

This week was pretty adventurous!!! With the big day slowly approaching we're thinking more and more about the wedding plans. This week we pretty much decided that we were going to do cupcakes at the reception. Well... we're anything but a normal couple, so we figured we needed to have anything but normal cupcakes. So, with that in mind we set off to make the most amazing cupcake creations ever!!! Actually... what we did really isn't all that original, but it was still a lot of fun to make the cupcakes and see how everything turned out. Here's a few pcitures of some of our creations. We're interested to know what you think!

Time for photos!!!

One thing Cassie and I have noticed that we're lacking and vowed to better about is taking pictures of the things we do. From the past 7 months of dating, all the pictures that we have are on the little slideshow on this blog. Pathetic huh? Well, we're going to do better now! We're taking pictures of everything that we can... Without getting too out of hand, of course. So, lately Cassie has really been craving french toast, and I just happened to have the stuff at my place, so for lunch we decided to go ahead and have some french toast and orange julius. Later in the afternoon we went to the temple together for the first time. It was a wonderful experience going together and doing baptisms for the dead. I was able to baptize and confirm Cassie, which was actually the first time I've ever done that! It was great to be in the temple together and do the work of the Lord. We have kind of an impossible but fun goal. We want to get pictures of us in front of every temple there is. That'll be difficult, but it will be cool to get pictures of us in front of as many temple as possible... 1 down, 151 to go!

Birthday in Salt Lake

Last weekend was my birthday, and to celebrate we ditched the Provo joint and headed out on the town!!! The day started somewhat early (at least for a saturday). By 9:30 we were on the road picking everyone up so we could get to the olympic oval in Curns. A bunch of us signed up to do an Olympic winter sports thing where we learned how to curl, ice skate, speed skate, and play ice hockey.
Curling was so much fun! The whole concept of curling isn't that difficult, but actually scoring is a lot harder than it looks. It was really fun trying to get those darn stones in the target! We all got a chance to throw the stones. Cassie's first time was amazing. She started sliding and got about ten feet out, and then completely lost her balance and did the splits on the ice. Hahaha!!! We all got a good laugh out of that, but she was able to redeem herself later and got a good throw in. I of course, was perfect in everything... *COUGH*... The darn stones just weren't good enough for my skill level, so they wouldn't go in the target. After curling we began the ice hockey part of the day. That was also a lot of fun! Though it was a little more complicated than curling, we all got the hang of it (somewhat) and were able to have some more fun on the ice. After hockey we were sitting down taking off our skates and one of Cassie's skates fell down right on her bare toe! Ouch! It's super bruised now, and she wasn't about to put skates back on after that happened, so we sat out for a little while and turned into the official photographers. It was still a lot of fun just watching everyone else try and show their stuff on the ice during the figure skating part. We decided to go ahead and try the speed skating part, but that wasn't the best idea. Those speed skates are horrible!! They have absolutely no give at all, and after putting them on I only lasted about a minute before I had to take them off again. It was not cool... While the whole skating thing didn't end on the best note, we still had a lot of fun playing around for a few hours.
After playing on the ice we headed over to the Gateway Mall in Salt Lake. Anthony and James had to head to Burley to pick up Anthony's new car, so we opted to stay at the mall for a while instead of going all the way to Burley... Turns out that "while" was about 6 hours... Now, me being a guy, I wasn't exactly ecstatic to know that I was going to be in a shopping mall for 6 hours straight, but it turned out that it wasn't to bad. I think we hit about every store possible at the mall (at least all the ones with clothing), but we also relaxed some. We stopped by the Love Sac store. That place was awesome!! I'm totally up for getting one of those things for the apartment/house. Whatever we happen to be living in by the time we have enough money to afford one of those. Lol! While at the mall Cassie treated me to dinner at a restaurant called Z Tejas. It was a really good southwestern grill. Cassie had some enchiladas and I had an amazing stuffed pork tenderloin. Dinner was great! After dinner we stopped by a cool little self-serve soft serve ice cream shop and by then Anthony was back so we headed home.
We had a great time spending the day with each other and are looking forward to many more :) Thanks for the wonderful birthday gift Cassie!!!

· Do you remember when we tried to watch Transformers 2 but couldn't because those darn mosquitoes wouldn't leave us alone! I swear I got bit at least 20 times that night. Good thing we finally found a place to watch the movie... and then it didn't work. Lol!! But I guess in the end that night turned out to be great because it was the night of our first kiss!!

· Do you remember when we went out to the Snake River for a little boating excursion? That was a lot of fun.

· Do you remember Thanksgiving up at the Cabin? The awkward hug from Dad? What about all the games we played? And the Turkey Bowl football game? Oh the memories....

· Do you remember the freeze fest? We really didn’t do much, but it was still fun! Especially seeing all those people fall over themselves trying to play broom hockey! Lol!

· Do you remember when we first started dating? I don't think you lasted more than a few days until you broke up with me... Then we tried again.... and you broke it off again.... etc. etc. Good thing I'm a persistent person.

· Do you remember when you had a near death experience at the 4th of July fireworks show? Too bad I wasn't there to protect you...

· Do you remember the buffets that we've gone to? Pizza Pia Cafe, Tucanos, Golden Corral... Man that was some good food!! I'm still amazed with how much you can eat! "I think I'm missing the gene that tells you when you're full..." Haha!

· Do you remember when we tried and tried to go ring shopping over Christmas break? At least we were able to go once...

· Do you remember when we went ring shopping and we found a ring that you really liked! But then we were disappointed when they couldn't actually get that ring in. You were actually decisive! But then it was to no avail!

· Do you remember the first time you ate dinner at my place with the family? You were so nervous! You hardly said a word. I couldn't believe it!

· Do you remember over Christmas break looking at the Christmas lights with my family? And I went into your house real quick to get introduced to everyone, but I couldn't see your grandma behind the island!

· Do you remember when I took you to go see the Senske lights? I was so excited because I thought it was really cool! It was new for me, so for some reason I thought it would be new for you... Well, at least you still enjoyed them!

· Do you remember your birthday? Man that was a busy time for you. Luckily we were able to get over to your house and decorate it before you got home.

· Do you remember Christmas this year? Do you realize next Christmas we'll be having our first?

· Do you remember the New Year's talent show/party? That was so much fun! I loved getting to know your family. What a great time we had together :)

· Do you remember when we flew home for Christmas? Apparently I don’t do very well when it comes to a combination of flying, stinky men, and Chinese food… :P

· Do you remember coming to all of the basketball games that us guys would play? And you still hugged me even though I was all sweaty and gross. You must really like me.

· Do you remember when your butt threw you off of the couch? Haha!!! Better watch that center of gravity!

· Do you remember when we did the yoga P90X? Better watch out for those happy babies!!! Yoga will never be the same... Hummmmmmmmmm…………….

· Do you remember the percussion concert we went to? That steel drum band was awesome! And that other oriental one... strange...

· Do you remember going to Five Guys and the Jon Schmidt concert with Nick and Sydney? And then we met some other family there. That was so much fun!!! He's such an amazing pianist!

· Do you remember all the sporting events we've gone to this year? They've been so much fun! Oh the memories... Do you remember the front row seats at the football game against TCU? Those were awesome seats! Too bad we got slaughtered... lol

· Do you remember when we went to Leavenworth? That was so much fun sledding, seeing the lights light up, the hat shop, the musical box shop, Kris Kringle’s... That was lots of fun.

· Do you remember all the good movies we watched? The Blind Side, When in Rome, The Lord of the Rings, Gremlins (your favorite), The Ring (are you still having nightmares?)

· Do you remember all of those nights that we would stay up late just talking and texting on the phone? And how we would always fall asleep on each other?

· Do you remember watching the stars all those nights? Finding your constellation? Trying to actually find a place dark enough to see the stars?

· Do you remember going up the hill and watching that crazy lightning storm that completely covered the tri-cities? That was awesome!

· Do you remember our first date going to the windmills? What a windy night that was!! But it was still really cool looking over the entire city...

· Do you remember when you ripped your pants? Need I say more?

· Do you remember when we went camping and we couldn't get the fire going forever!!! And that tent... What an experience…

· Do you remember when we went to Palouse Falls? I was so worried that you were going to kill yourself falling off of the waterfall!! Good thing you didn't fall...

· Do you remember when I took you to General Conference for your first time? That was such a cool experience! Good thing we didn't get pulled over even though we were going about 100 mph. Provo to salt lake in about 25 minutes... amazing.

· Do you remember when we went to the Nickelcade for Amy's birthday? I don't know about you, but I enjoyed myself! lol!

· Do you remember when we went to that Haunted House for Halloween? Oh my goodness that thing was frightening. You lost your shoe! And what about Samara?

· Do you remember when I tried to teach you how to play Super Smash Brothers? And then I beat you... Blindfolded... hehe..

Here's to many more memories that we'll make together! I'm so excited to see what's in store for us in the future.

Oh! I almost forgot about one last thing.

Do you remember.......
...WHEN I ASKED YOU TO MARRY ME?

Good ol' Super Bowl commercials

Ok, this was definitely one of our favorite commercials that was aired during the Super Bowl. There's a lot of funny ones, but I just wanted to share this with all of you guys. Hope you have a good laugh, cuz we sure did!

<a href="http://msn.foxsports.com/video?vid=38d69db0-cb88-4bae-a9cd-0a1fe214124c&amp;from=IV2_en-us_foxsports_videocentral" target="_new" title="Doritos: Watch Yourself">Video: Doritos: Watch Yourself</a>

This is us today :)

I just finished up an interview for a new job. Cassie's already working at the
BYU Creamery. Hopefully we can make enough money to not be poor. Judging by the faces, we're gonna be rich :D

Aren't we cute?

First blog post ever!!!!!!

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