I Guess I'll Introduce Myself
Hey, my name is Heather, and I live in Sandy, Utah. I am not a creative with my words, so you will have to bear with me as I share about my life in a very unoriginal way. :) Here is a little about me! This is me:
I am a proud member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints AKA I am a Mormon. I would not be where I am today without the knowledge of this gospel. To learn more about my religion, visit mormon.org or lds.org. I have 2 brothers and one sister, and my parents are the cutest. Families are forever! This is my family:
I love my friends and family with all of my heart, and if you hurt them, I hurt you. I think I’m funnier than I really am. I absolutely love taking pictures, so I post them QUITE frequently on Instagram and Facebook (see links above). I am a photographer. To see my work, visit heather-marie-photography.com. I love my friends and family with all of my heart, and if you hurt them, I hurt you. My best friend is Zoey, and we are probably the funniest people you will ever meet. This is us:
I am happily taken by the love of my life, Tony. :) He is serving an LDS mission in the great city of Samara, Russia. He returns in February of 2015! We plan to be married in the temple for time and all eternity once he is home. This is us:
I am striving to serve a mission, but I have had health complications that have held me back. That won’t stop me though. I can not wait until I know how I will be spending the next year and a half of my life! I am so excited to know what Heavenly Father has in store for me. Needless to say, I am pretty persistent and stubborn. When I know what I want, and it is important to me, I will find a way to get it. This can sometimes get the best of me. I hate playing sports, but I don’t mind watching them. I have played violin for 7 years, but that doesn't mean I am good at it. Same with singing, but I will be found wailing a song at the top of my lungs at the most random (and sometimes inappropriate) times. I am a nanny of 4 adorable children who I love more than anything. Yes, they are a handful. No, I wouldn’t want any other job. I absolutely love rain. I love all music, EXCEPT for Country and Screamo. It makes me wanna vomit. I laugh at pretty much everything, and it probably gets annoying, but at least I’ll live forever. Haters gonna hate.
This is me. I am not perfect. but I love myself anyway. I love life and live it to the fullest.
"Come what may, and love it." Elder Wirthlin
This is me. I am not perfect. but I love myself anyway. I love life and live it to the fullest.
"Come what may, and love it." Elder Wirthlin
My Best Friend
My best friend is Zoey Boyd. This is her and her beautiful face:
She and I met at a charter school we both went to in ninth grade. We became friends instantly, and still to this day, we are quite literally inseparable. Ask anyone. You invite me to something, you invite Zoey. You wanna be my friend, you are Zoey's friend too. If you tell me a secret, and tell me to not tell anyone, Zoey doesn't count. She is my other half! When I am not around her, I literally don't function the same. This is just one reason why I am so scared for her to leave on her LDS mission! AHH! She is called to teach the people of Atlanta, Georgia in the English language. She leaves for the Provo Missionary Training Center on August 14th. She will probably be the most amazing missionary to ever walk this earth. Her testimony is so strong, and I admire her so much. I look up to her as one of my role models because she has been through so many hard times in her life that could have totally torn her down, but she got back up and kept going strong. She has taught me so much. Heck, without her, I would still be the shy little girl that never talks! In fact, she is the reason I met the amazing man I am in love with, and she will NEVER let me forget that! ;)
I have lost track of how many times we have been asked if we are sisters because it's WAY too many. Lots of people even assume. I guess we look alike? We DO act like sisters. We even fight like sisters... If people didn't know we were best friends, they would think we hate each other sometimes because I can't remember a time when we weren't sarcastic. We even convinced our whole high school that we were sisters in tenth grade... They asked questions like "How are you the same age? Are you twins?" We would simply answer "Yes." They would think and then ask why we have different last names. We would just respond with "We have different dads." People who asked would RARELY think about it long enough to realize that you can't really be twins and have different dads. When they would ask, we would say, "We don't like to talk about it, it's a very sensitive and confusing subject." They would be concerned and just buy it. Priceless, that's for sure. It didn't last too long though, don't worry. At least for some people! Some people STILL believe us, but that's cool. Whatevs.
I can't count how many inside jokes we have. We have probably thought of one for at least every day we have known each other, so that probably makes a few thousand. We are pretty much THE funniest people you will ever meet. And by that I mean, we think we are so freaking hilarious. We have pretty much no bubble around each other, and people often get freaked out by it. Don't care! We do the strangest things, and people think we are so crazy, but that's fine. We know we are the funniest human beings to ever walk this earth!
Zoey, I don't know what on earth I would ever do without you. Seriously, I probably wouldn't have any friends because I would be an anti-social, home-schooled freak! ;) I love you so much. You truly are my best friend and I don't want you to ever think other wise. I know I'm not really the huggy type, or one to show affection, or even tell you a lot how important you are to me, but I want you to ALWAYS remember how much I love you! You are the best best friend anyone could ever ask for and more. Every girl deserves a best friend like you. I love you.
I have lost track of how many times we have been asked if we are sisters because it's WAY too many. Lots of people even assume. I guess we look alike? We DO act like sisters. We even fight like sisters... If people didn't know we were best friends, they would think we hate each other sometimes because I can't remember a time when we weren't sarcastic. We even convinced our whole high school that we were sisters in tenth grade... They asked questions like "How are you the same age? Are you twins?" We would simply answer "Yes." They would think and then ask why we have different last names. We would just respond with "We have different dads." People who asked would RARELY think about it long enough to realize that you can't really be twins and have different dads. When they would ask, we would say, "We don't like to talk about it, it's a very sensitive and confusing subject." They would be concerned and just buy it. Priceless, that's for sure. It didn't last too long though, don't worry. At least for some people! Some people STILL believe us, but that's cool. Whatevs.
I can't count how many inside jokes we have. We have probably thought of one for at least every day we have known each other, so that probably makes a few thousand. We are pretty much THE funniest people you will ever meet. And by that I mean, we think we are so freaking hilarious. We have pretty much no bubble around each other, and people often get freaked out by it. Don't care! We do the strangest things, and people think we are so crazy, but that's fine. We know we are the funniest human beings to ever walk this earth!
Zoey, I don't know what on earth I would ever do without you. Seriously, I probably wouldn't have any friends because I would be an anti-social, home-schooled freak! ;) I love you so much. You truly are my best friend and I don't want you to ever think other wise. I know I'm not really the huggy type, or one to show affection, or even tell you a lot how important you are to me, but I want you to ALWAYS remember how much I love you! You are the best best friend anyone could ever ask for and more. Every girl deserves a best friend like you. I love you.
"Wherever you go, just always remember
You're never alone, we're birds of a feather,
And we'll never change, no matter the weather
This is my oath to you."
- 'Oath' by Cher Lloyd
You're never alone, we're birds of a feather,
And we'll never change, no matter the weather
This is my oath to you."
- 'Oath' by Cher Lloyd
My love, My life, My Elder
This is the love of my life, Antony Tippetts Jr. AKA Elder Tippetts. Look at him:
The First Words
This is going to be like a 5 part story, so stay tuned for more! Tony and I met when we were in tenth grade, just fifteen years old. We both attended a charter school called Paradigm High School. I was struggling with finding who my real friends were, and I was in a very vulnerable state. The beginning semester of tenth grade was one of the hardest times of my life. Then the second semester came along. I had a history class with one of my very good friends, Samantha, and she knew Tony. I saw him for the first time and immediately thought "Dang. . . Why have I never seen him before? He is SO attractive." It was like in the movies with the wind blowing and him smiling and walking in slow motion, and me standing there with hearts over my eyes. Just kidding. He kind of paid attention to me, which no boys had ever done before. He told me later on that he was so sure that I had a boyfriend. I was so pretty, how could I not? Well, little did he know that I had never even come close to a relationship EVER in my entire life. One day, Sam made us sit by each other. The first words he ever said to be were "What is the current time?". I guess I am just hard of hearing, but I asked him "What?" He repeated the same line. . . . Still I couldn't understand him. I said, ". . . what?" He repeated AGAIN and I STILL didn't understand. I know, embarrassing right? But he was taking so quiet!! He got a little frustrated and embarrassed and said, "What time is it??" Wow. Yep, I just thought "He's never gonna like me now. That was the most embarrassing thing of my whole life. I'm doomed. I've ruined everything." I believe the time I told him was 2:12 pm. That was our first encounter. After that, we sat by each other every single day. A-Day's 5th period was my favorite thing of all! He eventually started passing me notes and stuff. Asking how old I was and what my favorite color was, and I was always so twitterpated! Everyone always teased me because I couldn't NOT blush when I saw him, let alone talked to him! I was as happy and giddy as a little school girl. Literally. Well, one day, I told Sam that I really liked Tony and she said "WHAT?? I told him I wouldn't tell you, but he totally likes you too!" I don't think I have ever been so happy! She messaged him on Facebook and told him that I liked him. The next day was February 17th 2010. It was an A-Day. I was so excited for 5th period, I could hardly stand it! I got to that class and sat down by him. I was SO nervous around him! I wanted him to write me a note so bad. . . Well, finally he got out his famous red notebook and red pen (he really liked red) and wrote me a note. It said " Heather, I just wanted to tell you that I like you a lot and I was wondering if you liked me, even in the slightest. It's okay if you don't, I would just kind of like to know." Yes, our relationship pretty much started with a "check yes or no" note. I wrote back and told him that I liked him too. A lot. His friend Dallin hijacked the note and wrote (on Tony's behalf) "WILL YOU GO OUT WITH ME?" and threw it to me. I wrote "Well, Dallin, I would appreciate it if Tony asked me himself!" Tony was not planning on it going this way at all, but he didn't want to NOT ask me out after Dallin setting him up like that! So he wrote that. I was SHOCKED. I had no idea what to say. I just froze. I didn't want to date until I was 16. I was gonna be 16 in 4 months, so I figured it would be fine! As I was writing my answer, out of the corner of my eye, I saw his hand shaking so bad. He was so nervous! I said yes, and handed him the note. He was so happy. I was so scared. I didn't know what I was doing! I decided then and there that I was going to let him make all of the first moves. Class was over and I got up, he put away my books, and then met me outside of the classroom. He walked down the hallway with me. His carpool was leaving, so he said goodbye to me, and hugged me so gently. I could feel him shaking. There was only one word for him: Precious. Little did I know that this boy would soon become my best friend, that I would be waiting for him on his mission, and that he and I would be married for time and all eternity.
Stay tuned for more stories! Coming up next, first kiss. :) (Yes, this will be an embarrassing one to tell.)
Stay tuned for more stories! Coming up next, first kiss. :) (Yes, this will be an embarrassing one to tell.)
The Infamously Wonderful First Kiss
It was a dark and stormy night. Okay, that was a complete lie. It was stormy, but it was definitely not night. It was about 3:30 pm on February 24th, 2010. Tony was staying after school to play football with his friends, and my friend Sam and I were going to be picked up late after school by my mom to go to the temple. His plans fell through because it was too rainy and windy, so they had decided to skip it. I was waiting for my mom, and he told me right after school that his friends cancelled on him. I was just filled with joy because that meant he could wait with me! The hallways were almost completely empty, and we just walked around the school awkwardly, kind of talking, but mostly just looking at each other, smiling like idiots, and then looking away. There was also a little blushing, I must admit. All we had done at that point was hug, and hold hands at lunch. We were standing in an empty hallway, and he said "Heather, can I hug you?" Well, how could I ever say no? I nodded yes, probably blushing with a stupid giant grin on my face. He wrapped his arms around me and hugged me so tight. I was so happy! I kept looking up at him, and we would look at each other, smile and giggle, and then hug again. We did that about 7 times before he got up the courage to try to kiss me. I saw it coming. I was more nervous than I have ever been in my entire life. I had never kissed ANYONE before! I didn't know how to do this! "How do you kiss? I'm gonna be so bad! Then he won't like me anymore and tell his friends how awful of a kisser I am!" My mind was racing, obviously. We looked up at each other, I smiled, and he just looked so so nervous. I knew it was coming, he kind of went in for it, and I buried my head in his chest once more. I had just realized what a foolish thing I had done. "Now he would never want to kiss me. He thinks I don't want to. I am SO STUPID." Well, lucky for me, he didn't give up! I am forever grateful for his insane courage, because I clearly had none. He looked at me, and I looked up at him, and he went in for the kill. Not a single force on earth could stop my body from shaking. He kissed me. I didn't have any idea of what I was doing. I was so nervous, that I scrunched my lips so tight, my mouth looked non-existent. He looked at me and smiled, so I knew he didn't think it was THAT bad. I felt so embarrassed. How dumb could I be?? Well, we just hugged and hugged . . . and hugged more. Finally my mom called me, to tell me she was almost there. I looked at Tony, and he asked if he could kiss me again. Of course, I said yes. I needed to redeem myself at least a little! I think I did . . . not saying it was good, but it was better. I had to go and change into a skirt so I hugged him again, and said goodbye. I went into the bathroom to change, but it was rather difficult because I was shaking so bad. I ran back out to get Sam, and he was still sitting in the hallway. He told me that I looked really pretty (he had never said that before). It made me feel so good. I still remember what I was wearing. (My pink shirt and a black skirt with white daisies, if you must know.) I got a call from my mom telling me she was there to pick us up. I walked out to the car with same just smiling my life away! She said "You totally kissed. There is no way you didn't." Not surprised that she could tell, because I was pretty much floating on a cloud. One of my best days ever, even though I kissed him like I had just drank a gallon of lemon juice. We look back and laugh now, and I wouldn't change a thing. I am so happy to call him my first and last kiss.
"Kiss me like you wanna be loved.
This feels like falling in love."
-'Kiss Me' by Ed Sheeran
This feels like falling in love."
-'Kiss Me' by Ed Sheeran