When Our Paths First Crossed.

We are the Hertigs. Jeffrey, Heidi and Jacob Jeffrey (but you can call him JJ, cause we do.)

I, Heidi, am the author of this blog. I am hoping it will be a good way to keep friends and family in the loop. I will be sharing the big and small events that make up our day to day lives. But first I want to do a little bit of catching up. Lets start with how it all began:

Jeff is from Bountiful UT and I am from St George UT. We both chose to attend Southern Utah University. One magical evening in October of 2011 our paths finally collided.

 I was sitting with my friends in a second floor dorm room with the windows open to let the cool October air in. I was having my hair done by a friend. She was laughing as she was doing it... so I knew it didn't look good (pic below for proof). Any way, It was a good thing we left those windows open because lo and behold we heard someone shouting up from outside. We gathered around the windows to see a few guys looking up at us. One had a blindfold on....???

His very attractive friend (hint:Jeff) explained, "Hey, we have a group date planned but this nice young man doesn't have a date. We are returned missionaries so we decided to go tracting for one.  Do any of you young ladies want to go on a blind date?"

My thoughts:  LOL tracting for a date!! And... DING DING DING blind date... that's why he is wearing the blind fold.... hm hm...clever. Nah I don't want to go, but this is awkward! haha.

Us gals said, "uh one second" we retreated from the windows and formed a huddle. 

"alright who's gonna go?" 

"Heidi, you should go!! I just did your hair!!!" 

me: "ya and you were JOKING and made it look crazy. No I'm not going."

"Heidi have you been on a date since your break up?" 

 "go, Heidi, go!"

me:"well....his friend is kinda cute...." 

So over to the window I went. "uh... I'll come!" there was lots of giggling behind me. It was then I realized my friends knew I was the only one who would be crazy enough to go on a date with a random guy in a blindfold. 

Yes, we met on a blind date. No, we weren't each others dates. Without being too creepy but being totally honest I was wishing he was my date the entire time. 

SO that is when the hugest crush in my life started and it hasn't ended since! 

Told you.... pretty crazy. I think that is a comb sticking out the back. Don't worry, I took it out and put it in a ponytail before I left.

This is a picture of Jeff and I March 2013. The day he proposed he took me on a little walk down memory lane. This is just outside the residence hall where he yelled up at me like Romeo convincing  me to come down for a blind date with his attractiveness!