A word from the author

Hello, my hame is Heather Visser, welcome to my little bite of the internet. Thoughts, pictures, lots of coffee, family, and friends is what you'll most likely find in my little world. 

I am a young 20-something on a career path in the health field, although that is not where I intended myself to be, it is where I am at. Life and the Lord have a way of throwing curves at you like that; I wouldn't have it any other way. 

I love books, re-watching my favorite movies (at least a dozen times), documentaries, music, my curly head of hair, and being around people that know me well. 

I am happily married to my best friend. I know a lot of people say that but literally, we were best friends before we ever dated and after being in that blissful situation I don't know why I tried dating any other way. Silly Heather. We are currently midwestern dwellers with our eyes on the horizon for our next step. 

My husband is from Michigan, as his little sister Aleena would put it: "The mitten that holds my heart." He is fiercely protective of those that he loves, wise, gentle, and very loving. I am blessed to be married to such a man and to be included into the Visser family. 

To see more of my daily life feel free to follow me on Instagram and Twitter. 

Feel free to send me an email as well (heathernvisser@gmail.com). I shall never tire of meeting new faces and hearing all of your beautiful stories. Welcome to my little world, thanks for sharing in it. 

Note: all of the beautiful pictures were taken by lovely sister-in-law Jenna, she's wonderful. 

St.Louis Part 3: Aleena

Aleena is always good for quotes, this trip was no exception: 

Me: "Unhappy Heathers are the worst type of Heathers." 

Aleena: "NO! 17 year old red-headed cheerleaders are the worst type of Heathers!" 

One morning: "Will you get me ready? Like when you're little and you don't have to get yourself ready?" 

Always hilarious. 

Zoo pictures are coming up in part 4 of what now feels like an infinite series of St.Louis. (I warned you that I took well over 600 photos didn't I)? Aleena was so excited about the baby elephant at the zoo and the cheetah. She is the world traveler of the family and went to Kenya this summer for a missions trip and saw them out in the wild.

We didn't see the baby elephant but we did see a cheetah flaunt himself with a researcher cheering him on right next to us. He was fun to talk to. Aleena was enraptured. So incredible. 

Now for everyone else to be enraptured by the goofiest and most incredible model that is Aleena Visser. 

Seriously. Those high cheek bones, amazing hair, tall frame; I could die. 

Aleena is a fantastic little sister. She very much represents the ideal "baby of the family," and is all the more incredible for it. She is the fun-loving, serious at her studies, going to change the world type of person that everyone should know. I have no doubt that I'll be reading many articles featuring her in my lifetime. 

She is currently working on a Business degree at ORU and has already decided to take another year and go for her masters. She works over 20 hours a week as a waitress, goes to school full-time, maintains an insane GPA (I'll give you a hint: it's perfect), is an Resident Assistant, and doesn't go insane. Don't ask me how she does it, but I am always impressed. 

I can't tell you how thankful I am to be in this ones life. I'm even more thankful that I get to be here permanently and watch her become an even more incredible woman than she already is.

Aleena, you're going to do so much good for the Lord and for humanity as a whole. I can't believe you're only 20, and I know that you'll do so much more in your life then what most people could do in five. I am proud to call you a sister. 

St.Louis Part 2

During our trip Jenna was the driver/navigator (when my phone wasn't working)/parallel parker extraordinaire. Seriously I saw her do things in her SUV that I would be terrified to do in my itty bitty Kia Rio. Boss.  

I forced all the girls to come and take the photos that I've been sharing because I borrowed a great lens and everything! They were all really awesome about it and Jenna jumped in to be my tester for every new area. She also jumped into taking the camera from me when it came time for me to be in front, which you'll see later. Folks, Jenna has a fantastic eye! All the way back to the hotel I was encouraging her to get a camera! 

Right before this we were shopping and just having an utter blast finishing shopping before the mall closed at 6p because, "Oh yeah, Sunday." 

She's just too lovely. I could die. My sister-in-law Jenna has to be one of the most fun people I've ever met in my life. She was also the most intimidating family member when I started dating Q. I had met her before, but she is pretty protective over her brother and I just didn't know if I would be the one to make the cut. (Like I said she's VERY protective, I don't blame her, Q is an awesome guy). 

When you fit into a family it just works though. (I've never told her but when I finally heard the sweet phrase, "Jenna approves." I did an obnoxious happy dance). Now you know Jenna! 

My favorite things about Jenna include her ability to laugh at anything, it's a Visser thing. Her incredible ease into treating me like a sister, her whit, and her singing. 

I have 2 favorite memories of Jenna: 

1. My first day of meeting the family she stole me and grabbed Aleena (little sis-in-law) for a day in downtown Whitehall Michigan. If you've never been it's so stinkin' cute. We went to a thrift store, it was right before Christmas, and I found this adorable little ceramic kettle and she looked at me and said, "You're going to put that down and pretend you never saw it." Guess what ended up with my name on it under the tree? I pulled it right back on her when she found a bracelet that she loved. When we got back home I made a huge klutz out of myself and fell down the stairs of the house with pizza in hand. I knew that we fit when they didn't freak out, they laughed and then asked me if I was ok. Only the best of friends do it that way!

2. During my wedding she stayed at home with her family and the groomsmen. At the end of every day she pulled me aside, "What do you need done? I'll get the boys to do it."It was like having a second maid of honor and it helped so much during that whole week. I wouldn't have made it through without her. 

Anyone else getting the picture of how amazing this family is?