Haka?

Are you serious? I'm all for motivation and everything, but I think #2 is taking it a little too far.

We're STILL Glad We're Not Zoobies

In response to a family member's blog about Ute Fans, we can only say that we are glad that we did not go to what they consider -The Harvard of the West- and even after last nights distaster, we can at least be happy because....

Love ya, Scott :)

Holidays Are Over

Heeeeeeelllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooo!!! It's been a couple weeks. Lets catch up...

First, Eric had his softball come to an end. The bad thing is that the ball in the last game had to leave its mark until the next year. He was playing 1st Base and in a crucial moment at the end of the game, a hot grounder was hit is way and took a bad bounce... popping him in the chest-- and dropping him to the ground. Luckily for him, his dad was able to make from the bleachers to his injured boy in about 3.4 seconds-- which is also impressive because as always, he was wearing his trusty flip-flops. Way to go dad!

Eric could hear him coming as soon as he hit the ground- it was pretty amazing. Dad can't run real well, but when the pressure is on, he sure steps it up! It left a nasty bruise, but he'll make it.

Softball ended and Eric is thinking about hanging up the cleats and retiring. He seems to get slower and his skills aren't getting sharper so he says he's trying to preserve what pride he has left. Probably better for his body anyway.

We got to enjoy the 24th holiday to the fullest with the Days of '47 Rodeo and the big parade in SLC. Eric's dad hooked us up with some grandstand seats on the front row so we had a prime spot to see the show! We got to go with our good friends, the Brewers. It was there 1st rodeo and we were glad to host them to a good show. No bull-riders were killed, but one did break his leg. Pretty sweet.

We had a great spot at the rodeo to get a good pic of our great Prophet. 97 and going strong!!

No parade is complete without the bagpipes

Unfortunately, Eric had to work in the afternoon because he had a training in his new job that was mandatory. It sucked.

Since the holiday ended, Heather's been busy with school stuff and getting her classroom ready. Eric spent a couple of days in Denver for work and got to hit up a Rockies game and do some river rafting. Poor Eric. We've been excited that Eric got his first paycheck from the new job so we hit up the Happy Sumo. Heather's been craving the sushi since last March-- when Eric was last on a salary pay. IT WAS AWESOME!!! It was a nice night. We came home and watched our new copy of The Bourne Identity and got to rest. The rest of the night consisted of Heather trying to carry on a conversation and Eric falling asleep on her... the river wore him out!!

We had a good July and we're excited for August-- except that Heather has to start teaching in like 3 weeks. Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!

Good News/Bad News

Overall, its been a pretty good couple of weeks. The bad news is that we lost earlier than we wanted in our softball tournament in St George, but besides that- the job is good, Lacey's baby is good, Heather is good, I'm gaining happy weight, and Heather still looks pretty dang wonderful.

We got to St George on Friday evening and had just enough time to hit up the Fiesta Fun Batting Cages in 119 degree heat before we hit up our first game at 9pm. Unfortunately, after a nail-biter of a game that went to the 11th inning. We should have won that dang game, but we have a history of not doing so well the first game... we don't warm up well.

Just the beginning....

We lost at nine, then played again at 11pm- won that one. Played at 2am- won that one. Played at 5am- and won that one. We thought we were on fire! Unfortunately, the crazies that ran the tourney scheduled us to play at 6pm on Saturday night in the freaking heat!!!

Your eyes do not decieve you...(could be a slightly inacurate)

Yes- you are correct-- it WAS hotter than hell. We started off the game at 6pm and, being our first game of the day, we blew it. We lost 6-2 in a freaking softball game to a bunch of guys that are probably all related to Richie Valenz and Speedy Gonzalez. Tough loss. HUGE props to Heather for being an excellent team-mom. She was in charge of keeping me hydrated and was on call all weekend for any other Gatorade requests. Way to go, Heath!!!

So we had an open night to hang out and went to see the new Die Hard movie... Seriously, one of the coolest movies I've ever seen. I'm not huge on the Die Hard series, but we both thought it was AWESOME!!

We drove home early the next morning and we had some car trouble. I thought that the Mazda would make it to Cedar City on a quarter tank-- I was terribly wrong. Just as we were coming up on the final exit to Cedar, the Mazda began to jerk and we were literally 'coasting on fumes.'

We were actually really lucky cuz I was able to coast all the way to the entrance of the Shell Station. The picture is a reinactment, that Heather set us up for, but it isn't too far from what it looked like. I'm glad I had Jimmy to help push. The coasting skills of the Mazda were, indeed, impressive and we were able to continue on for a safe trip home.

I started my job at ADP this week. I'm exhausted and having an information-overload, but I'm really enjoying it and I'm really excited to get going and sell billions of dollars of shiz. :)

Lacey was finally able to bring home her baby this week. Jack Ryan "Bidu" Gatherum came home on Wednesday and is doing outstanding! Holy crap he's a good lookin' kid!!

We did some more waterskiing today with Matt and his clan, Ryan and Ella, and Dad. We busted out the tube for the little kids, but I thought it might be fun to go rip up the rubber with some barrel-rolls or somethin'. If you wanna see some sweet action tubing, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DT1NdqzzEs

It may not be that cool, but it was a big moment for me.

Heather ripped up the wakeboard again in less-than-stellar water but put on a good show. She makes it look pretty good with out a good wake, good water, nor a tower. She's so hot! Take a look-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RIU4_rGZlE

Matt and I got compare arm size-- and it was a sad day for him. DISCLAIMER: Please do not look at anything ACCEPT the arms. We are well aware that we are not that great-looking with our shirts off. Yes, it's true, I am up to a semi-healthy 220 lbs now.

Pretty obvious to me, thanks very much.

Things are back to normal for awhile. I'm back in a structured job with some good support and stability. Heather is doing great with her time off from school, but stays busy with little school projects and taking care of me-- she's making some wonderful food and you can see that I'm reaping the benefits.

Happy 4th

So we've slacked off on the blogging- but our excuse continues to be that since we don't have any kids, our lives aren't as entertaining... so in about 3+ years, our blog should be AWESOME!!

Eric's big (but smaller) sister had her baby last weekon June 25th. At 6 lbs. 14 oz. After waiting some 3 suspensful days for a name, they decided on Jack Ryan Gatherum. Lacey's other little girl, Ella, nick-named him Bidu (bee-doo) when he was still a fetus, and we think we are going to stick with that sweet name. We still haven't actually been able to see the baby cuz of some minor problems with Bidu's lungs and heart, but everything is going to be ok and Bidu should be home in the next few days and we will actually get to meet him.

He sure is a cute little bugger and we are so excited to see him and welcome him to the fam!

Eric has been waiting to start his new job with ADP, so it's been a lot of fun to hang out together everyday. Since I'm out of school for the summer, it's been wonderful to be able to spend the days together and swim, boat, clean, sleep, etc. Eric starts on Monday and it will be an adjustment to have him gone all day long.... no good!

We got to have a lot of fun yesterday for the big Holiday. We went up to Kaysville with Eric's family for the parade up there which included lots of candy and a finished up with a HUGE water fight with some 10 water trucks and a couple of fire engines spraying the crowd. We stayed out of the line-of-fire for the most part, but had our own fun spraying the rest of the family around our parade spot. By the time we got home, we squoze in a nap and got ready to head up to Deer Valley with Dad for dinner and the Utah Symphony's patriotic tribute.

The symphony played the Armed Forces Medley and they asked all those that had served in the military to stand when there song was played. Here's Eric's dad standing for the Army's anthem. It was cool to see him pop up out of his seat proudly when the song began.

The 4th of July was great and we were able to swing past my parents house to do some fireworks. They were the real good kind you get from the scouts-- 'Box 'o fun'! Deer Valley let us down on the fireworks so at least we were able to catch these before the day was over. Eric's dad was nice enough to take the two of us boating today. We had to be up to Farmington early to meet him, but it was a perfect day on the lake. We think that everybody did their boating on the 4th so today, the 5th, was very calm and not crowded at all. We both had pretty good runs today-- here's some killer-sick air!

Heather's got more grace!

All in all, it has been a great holiday week and it was good to get the R & R in before the big softball tournament in St George this week... many great tales to come from that.

Kites + June Don't Mix

We tried our best to get these cheap Ben-Franklin-Style kites up in the air, but if you can't already tell, we had NO success. There were a couple glimpses of hope after trying a few times, but any hope for success was demolished by an unfortunate collision between Eric and the string from Heather's kite... The string was the loser in that battle. Eric may have lost a little bit of the wedding-weight after running around the park in his attempt to defy the laws of physics, but he was pretty bugged about the useless kites so he probably didn't care about the weight....too bad.

Words of advice for those not-so-avid kiters out there:

1. Do it in March like you're supposed to

2. Don't buy your kites from Ace Hardware

3. Don't buy kites that are shaped like the revolutionary days-- go with the stealth bomber shape- I've actually seen those kites fly.

Ok-- We're still learning

So, we figured that we would try to model the wonderful blogging skills of Scott and Natalie, but we've just realized that since we don't have a single child yet (not even close to 3 great kids), so there' really not that much to report that frequently... NEVERTHELESS, there is some updating to do since we tied the knot. WARNING: This is a long blog, but we hope it will catch you up and be entertained as well.

Our honeymoon was great-- we got to spend 4 days in beautiful southern California. The plane ride was awful (most of you have heard about Heather's unfortunate incident with the barf-bag), but CA was wonderful. The first day was filled with sun and the beach. Unfortunately, the SWEET Chevy Monte Carlo that we rented ended up having a faulty seatbelt and we had to spend a couple hours traveling back to a Budget Rental place for an efficient seatbelt... you know Heather-- always concerned about safety and stuff. We got hooked up with a Malibu and we were on our way!

We had planned to hit up Disneyland on Friday and rip it up with Mickey and the Gang, but when we opened the blinds, it was pouring rain and our options in 'sunny California' had been greatly reduced-- we went and saw "Blades of Glory" instead. It was awesome!!! Luckily by night time, the rain had cleared up a little bit and Heather and I headed to Santa Monica to do a little dinner and shopping. Wooooooooo wooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! We were both able to find a killer-sick deal on some shoes!! Heather and I were both quite content. We decided to hit up the Benihana for Heather's birthday dinner and it was really good. The night was made more eventful with the two drunk women at our table... whom after 15 minutes, asked the cook if it would take very much longer to be done cuz they had a rave to go to. Hmmm. Luckily they left, leaving plenty of elbow room for the two of us. Crazy drunk women! Thanks for the memories. (Sorry we couldn't snag pics of the drunk ladies--little obvious, ya know?)

Eric's are in the middle ;)

Saturday was our day to go all out. We had planned to fulfill an old Short Family tradition by hitting the Orange County Swapmeet. If you are a Short and you are in SoCal, it's an absolute must! Where else can you get 10 pairs of socks for $11? We spent a few hours there, enjoyed a little breakfast at IHOP, then made our way to Disneyland. What we realized is that everyone else that had been rained out on Friday had also decided to raid the magic land on Saturday so it was more than crowded. After rocking the Pirates ride and Indiana Jones, Eric had to hunt down a churro. With a churro and Coke in hand, he was ready to finish the day.

Shortly thereafter, Cameron & Alissa's wedding day was coming up and we were looking forward to a great trip to NY. Alissa's family were incredible hosts and so fun to meet! We were so taken by the landscaping of the entire neighborhood-- not to mention the beauty of all of Long Island. The wedding dinner was awesome-- Cameron's friends were great and had some great words of wisdom.... well... at least most of them did.

Hey Everyone!!

Heather and I have decided to get in on this 'blog' thing. Welcome to our world. Thanks to everyone for all their help this last week at our wedding. We had a great time and we hope that everyone was able to enjoy the day as much as we did. More to come as Heather and I start our adventures together.

Stay in touch!