Nate & Misty's Wedding Pics

This is the first time I've taken the entire wedding photos. I've done engagement. And I've helped with a wedding. But this is the first time I've done the WHOLE thing by myself. I was a little nervous, but I'm pretty happy with the results. Thanks to my little bro, Nate, for trusting me with his wedding photos.  

See more pictures at my photography blog-

www.natalieheiner.blogspot.com

Glen Hansard Live at Sundance!

These are the people from the movie "Once" singing at Sundance. Awesome : )

http://oncethemovie.com/

This is a great movie. Glen Hansard is the guy with the guitar. In real life he is a singer/songwriter and they made a movie showcasing his music. I loved it. GO SEE IT!

The pictures below of the graffiti are of a building downtown. This guys bought it to tear it down and build some condos in its place. But before that he invited local artist to come and paint it inside and out. The whole building is covered with artwork, its pretty cool. He got the idea from a person in NYC that did that with a building they were destroying. And the artists liked the idea of having a temporary medium. On Saturday my little bro and fiance came down and I took some of their bridal pictures in front of the building. They turned out pretty cool.

We went to the Jazz Festival Tonight and found Thurm's hair twin. Don't be fooled, this is not Thurm's hair. This man uses better product and possibly blow dries.


We saw Dianne Reeves sing... she has a huge, beautiful voice!

A Before Picture of My Hair

Sugarhouse Park

Hanging Out

Ward Parade
Honest Abe and Honest Thurm
Kassie, our cute neighbor
Playing the Guitar

Swimming with the Boys

Fireworks at Sugarhouse Park!

“Ohhh, say can you see”

4th of July was great! We woke up at 8:30 to attend our neighborhood parade (50 kids on bikes). It ended at a little neighborhood park two blocks from our house, where they had breakfast waiting for us. I lead the star spangled banner for the crowd… does it really need leading? We watched our neighbor’s little girl for an hour at the park while he ran an errand. Kassie, the little girl, and Thurm had fun throwing water balloons at each other.
Later we went swimming at Thurm’s brother’s apartment. I took lots of swimming pictures. We ate dinner at “Eat-A-Burger” with Thurm’s brothers and our friend Amy. We watched “A Street Car Called Desire,” which, of course, was a great movie. Classic movies always are. There was lot of lying around time, relaxing, napping, etc. We went to Sugarhouse Park to watch the fireworks. I’ve done this in previous years, but never thought about traffic because we just walked to the park from my apartment. But traffic is a BIG consideration when choosing where to watch fireworks. The fireworks ended at 10:30 and we didn’t get home till mid-night.

Recent Events:

Thurm squished a HUGE, FAT spider in the bathroom and immediately after the squish, 40+ baby spiders crawled from underneath the tissue!!! AHHHHHH!!! A NIGHTMARE! I still have the heebie-jeebies thinking about it.

I rear-ended a car this morning. Well, not really, I just tapped her bumper, but I was still scared that she’d freak out. Stopped at a stoplight, I was tweezing my eyebrows in the rear-view mirror and not realizing that the pressure of my foot on the break was lessening. I bumped her, we looked at our cars, nothing happened, so we went on our way. But it still made me panic.

Danalin's Wedding

Millcreek a few weeks ago

The Beardless Wonder

Thurm shaved off his beard and is smooth as a baby's bum. Its been traumatic for both of us. Traumatic for me because I don't know this hairless man who claims to be my husband. Traumatic for him because I can't let it go and I keep making comments about it.

My best friend, Danalin, got married on Saturday in the Logan Temple. Thursday I threw her a small bachelorette party and Saturday drove up to Logan early to take pictures of her getting ready. Our other BFF, Heather, did the hair and make-up. I'll post pictures later.

I missed my 10-year class reunion to go to Danalin's wedding. Not that I was the least bit sad. But my best friends from High School, Deven & Emily, went together. This is a big deal because they haven't talked for about 8-years and left on bad terms. I was sort of bummed to miss out on any drama that ensued, but Deven has promised to give me the run-down.

My favorite subject

Thurm & I spent Friday night and Saturday morning with two couples from our ward at a cabin in Kamus. When we first moved into the ward last October, these same people creepily surrounded us in Sunday school and invited us to said cabin. I have to admit I was scared they were going to take us up in the woods and make us join their cult. It never worked out for us to go to the cabin till this weekend. And thankfully, there were no rituals, and we had a fun time. One of the husbands, Tom, was a riot. The type of guy that has a story for everything and lives to entertain. I've decided that every good group has to have one of these people. In a matter of 8 hours every controversial subject you can think of was discussed. Its always so interesting getting to know people on a deeper level than just the polite "how do you do's" at church. I felt like both couples had laid out alot of their dirty laundry. I know they expected the same of Thurm & I, but we are both much more private than that. It was one of the cases where I thought one of the women had a perfect life and came from a rich, religious family, but that wasn't the case. Her family had tons of heartache and problems. It made me thankful for Thurm's and my family. We aren't perfect, but basically everyone is living a good life. On our drive home I asked Thurm if he thought everyone liked us and his reply was "people like them always love people like us." Meaning, people who like to entertain need to have people like us to laugh and their jokes. Lesson re-learned: I'm a fairly negative person and I always think people are so shallow, but then I get to know them and I remember that I really love people. And that everyone has something interesting about them or something to add to my life.
Other Weekend Activities: Thurm's cousin's reception, I ate about 20 chocolate covered strawberries : ) mmmm. My brother, Wade and family have moved to SLC! (I'm going to show them a good time to try and convince them that SLC is great if you can just get past the overwhelming Mormon culture.) Went to a ward picnic in the park. Thurm won the pie eating contest. We together won the 3-legged race. Went swimming, watched Apocalypto, read, laid on the grass in the shade, played Bocce. Great weekend.

Thurm & I had a fun day yesterday. We decided to go to the Arts Festival downtown after work. We first ate at Tony Caputto's for dinner, an Italian deli named after the owner. Tony served me my trio salad : ) If you have the chance, get the "Caputto" sandwich....mmm... good stuff.
Then we went to Library Square where the Festival was taking place. We stopped inside the library to use the restroom and saw they had a Salt Lake film festival going on. So we watched 82 minutes of 10 short films. The one we both voted for was a documentary about how our military censors the media. The guy who directed it was a soldier in Iraq. His job was to shoot film and give stories to the US media. But he was ordered to tell "happy" stories or at least stories that shed good light on the US. It wasn't surprising or shocking...we know that our media is censored and biased. But it was great that someone who was there and apart of it wanted people to know what was going on.
There was one other short that was really interesting too. A high-school girl who found out her step-mom was a meth addict decided to make a documentary. She was surprised to find out that Utah is #3 in the nation for meth users (isn't Wyoming #1?). And even more surprising is that its more common with women. She interviewed recovering female addicts and found out some of the reasons women liked meth so much in the beginning. They lost weight, some 20 lbs in the first week. They had tons of energy to clean the house, make dinner for the family, run errands, etc. But obviously after awhile, they didn't care about the clean house, making dinner, taking care of their kids... all they cared about was getting their next hit. And eventually it ruined their lives.
After we watched the shorts we went to the Art Festival. The most entertaining part of the evening was a fashion show. And people watching of course. Community events tend to bring out the most colorful people.
Tonight we are going to Kamus to a cabin with three couples from our ward. We have to make couple friends now : ( Tomorrow we are attending Thurm's cousin, Lexi's, reception. After that we are helping my brother, Wade, unload his u-haul. He is moving to SLC for a year for an internship at the U. And Saturday night is a ward BBQ at the neighborhood park. Busy weekend. And somewhere in all that I need to prepare for my primary choir and wash our sink full of dishes. All this and we don't even have kids yet.

The $800 Haircut

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/HomeMortgageSavings/haircut.aspx

At least I didn't spend $800 for a haircut!!!

I just paid $85 for a haircut. That is insane and yet I paid it willingly because I knew I was going to get a great cut. I rationalize this because in the last 2 years I've had long hair and have only cut it a few times. And I never paid over $35 for a haircut. So really I've been saving money. My hair is very short now. Its technically a bob. But its a very cute bob. I'll have to post before and after pictures.