Mission Statement and Bio for Two Handy Dudes of 2026

Happy Valentines Day my love!

 My Dearest Melissa,

As Valentine's Day approaches, my heart swells with love and gratitude for you. Each moment spent with you is a treasure, and I find myself in awe of the beautiful bond we share. You are not just my fiancé; you are my best friend, my confidante, and my greatest adventure.

From the very first time I laid eyes on you, I knew there was something extraordinary about you. Your smile lights up my world, and your laughter is the sweetest melody. With you, I’ve discovered a love that is deep, profound, and endlessly inspiring.

Every day, I am thankful for your kindness, your strength, and the way you see the world. You’ve shown me the true meaning of love, patience, and understanding. Together, we’ve built a relationship filled with joy, laughter, and unforgettable memories, and I look forward to creating countless more.

On this special day, I want to remind you of my unwavering commitment to you. I promise to support you, cherish you, and love you unconditionally. You are my everything, and I cannot wait to spend the rest of my life with you.

Happy Valentine’s Day, my love. May our hearts continue to beat as one, and may our love grow stronger with each passing day.

Forever yours,

Dean Russel Hartwig 

Men and women

 🤗🤗 Men attend women for two reasons, sex and love, but in most cases men do not marry for sex or for love, they marry for stability.

A man can love you and not marry you.

A man can have sex with you for years without marrying you. But immediately he finds someone who brings stability in his life, he marries her.

Men are visionaries when they think about marriage, they do not think about wedding dresses, bridesmaids, anything the woman thinks is fanciful. They think that this woman can build me a home.

Women are tender, they have the capacity to receive and reproduce. You give her groceries, she prepares a meal, you give her money, she gives you peace, you give her sperm and she gives you children. You give HER discomfort, she becomes your worst nightmare and most men know it. This is why a man can stay with a woman for years and meet another in a month, then get married.

It's the stability they want.

Sex is pleasure, love is affection, RESPECT is stability.

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This! 😓🥺

 Seriously 😓🥺 sad 4 me here at the fifth wheel with my now wife. I don't like one ounce of it. If I could get away I would. I have nowhere to go. I have no one to stay with. I've never been hit so many times by anyone in my entire life. I feel like, I'm living in a nightmare from one of my nightmares when I was a kid. When I look in the mirror, I see sadness, pain, ridicule and blame. Blame towards me and the way I catch her in lies. I don't like this life and I don't want it the way it is right now. Believe me, I am motivated and up beat! I will do what it takes to be me and not let people get me down. I will earn money enough to buy a fifth wheel of my own. Then, I will be out. I feel like my body is a laugh to who is and happens to be my wife right now.

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Top dog

 They seriously have to come up with something... falsified paperwork? I mean come on. You have to dig really stinking deep to find something like that. To overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. Wow. Since when does tampering with the election in any way, shape or form become accusatory to a democrat? Now that it's a republican, and a businessman, no bars held. Everything is against Trump. Do we want one world order? Do we want our business done by slaves in China or do we want America to be the top dog?

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Heather and Dean Updates 2023

First things first - Tomorrow at 3pm is our one-year anniversary!

7-28-2023

It's the day I proposed to Heather in 2021 on top of the Seattle Space Needle.

Plans aren't planned yet. The ones we had fell through. We were planning on going to Vegas and then Arizona to see Dad.

Here is our engagement video:

   

Dad had a heart attack recently. They found more plaque in his veins, so they put in some stents in his heart aortas.

 We have a nice new-to-us home that we got into right after Halloween.

It is great! We are glad that we don't have to live in our fifth wheel.

This is a video of our new house we got in November:

We traded our fifth wheel for a Dodge Durango. We drove that for a while then gave it to our adopted daughter. It wasn't a good vehicle for her and her children. She traded the Durango for a down payment on a truck. It's a much better vehicle for her and her little kids!

Our house has been full of roommates and adopted children since we moved in. There has always been someone to fill these rooms! The purpose of this house, however, is to get it ready for Heather's children to have a good place to stay through partial custody.

Since Christmas, we have rearranged the house and added more furniture as well. We now have a bunk bed in the boys' room instead of the sewing machine and computer. The office is now in the shed in the back yard. The sewing supplies can be set up and taken down in the living room.

Recently we had a good vehicle. It was a Jeep Patriot. We thought it was outstanding. When we went to go pick up Heather's daughter near Seattle, WA though, we found out how bad it actually was. The engine seized up and the transmission failed. We were 2 hours away from home. Luckily Heather knew someone close by who could tow the vehicle not 20 minutes away from us. He is the fire chief in The Dalles. To top it all off, we just picked up Porkchop (Tony) from his 6-day trip from Philadelphia on the Greyhound bus.  He wasn't impressed with our vehicle. We felt embarrassed. A friend of Emilie's brought her to us that same night. We paid him some gas money, and now she's here. Porkchop and Emilie ended up dating after they both moved into our house. They're good people. Emilie is 18 and Porkchop is 31. They're making things work!

Photo of the Jeep

We just put a down payment on a Ford Escape. It is a very good vehicle! I have been getting school grants and loans to pay for some of my living expenses. Heather and I pay bills and get a thing or two. This time around, we really needed a vehicle for her while I was at work. 

We put down on a 2017 Ford Escape

2017 Ford Escape from the Ford Dealer in Hermiston, OR

The payments are reasonable, so no worries there. This thing is New-new. It has so many features, it's like we bought a $12K cell phone.

Being chronological:

1: we traded the fifth wheel for the Durango

2: We adopted a 23-year-old daughter.

3: She traded the Durango for a down on a truck

4: Bryce and Bree moved in and moved out in a month.

5: We had the house to ourselves for 2 months.

6: We bought a jeep

7: We went to go pick up Emilie (Heather's 18 YO daughter) from Seattle

8: The Jeep we drove to pick her up broke down.

9: Emilie was picked up by Bryan who is Heather's 14-year-olds father.

Porkchop was here not less than one day before we picked up Emilie.

10: We bought a newer vehicle - A 2017 Ford Escape.

Today: 7-27-2023 

There are four adults living in our house.

Heather and Dean

Emilie and Tony

Rural Oregon and Washington Personalities

I've lived in seaside, Warrenton, Walla, Walla, and Hermiston.

I've lived in these places over the last 4 years. This is my experience.

Some of the first things I've noticed about the small towns in Oregon and Washington were that people had very low expectations of everyone around them. At first on the surface they are friendly, give directions, reach out and say hi, make sure they introduce themselves, have a friendly outlook, and other such things. When it comes to integrating oneself with groups of people at work, in friendships, and in family relationships, it tends to be a game of who said what to who and how bad someone did someone in their entire lives. There is a constant battle for King or queen of the rumor mill. Basically, the impression I get now is everyone is into everyone else's lives. It's a hobby for these small towns. It gets bad, because of one thing starts from some anonymous person saying something negative about somebody else. Else the whole town and the surrounding towns now know to judge that person more fully. Don't get me wrong, the scenery is great! The outdoorsmanship is awesome! However, on a personal level it gets pretty nitty-gritty. 

In Phoenix and in bigger cities, none of that would fly. Someone who would get shot over talking shit about somebody else. In big cities there timid and scared to say anything about their neighbor for fear of them, robbing them slashing their tires or shooting them. That doesn't seem to be an issue here, it's more of a game to see. You can destroy whose life better.

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House Search for Heather, Dean and the kids

We are looking for a house in the Hermiston, Oregon area. This is a list of our favorite houses.

I am being general, because this is a public blog.

Here is a list of houses found on Facebook Marketplace

The photos are links to each house that is on the market in our price range; area and they each have three to four bedrooms.

I really like this one!

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/386990800222055/

https://www.gillespiehomesnw.com/plan/226882/grand-manor/6013-2/

Marlette homes phone number 

(541) 567-5546

https://www.marletteor.com/details/55MJC40643AH

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/423230233161008/

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1320916988442380/

3 bedroom 2 bath. Fully remodeled.

New paint,

cabinets and countertops,

light fixtures,

windows, and

water proof floors. $270,000 Located at 1717 NE 2nd Place Hermiston, OR 97838.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/434720541735485

facebook.com/marketplace/item/754434119000406

Have a great day!

8-24-2022

Getting married sooner than I thought!

Heather Dawn Evans and Dean Russel Hartwig are pleased to announce their marriage on June twentieth two thousand and twenty two in Hermiston, Oregon at our home!

Heather and I get along great! She is the love of my life and it only gets better! I can honestly say that it does get better. Heather has been through so much with her ex. I feel that in our life together. Heather has four children and it will be great to meet them and hang out with them someday, but right now and because of her ex (David Stubbs), I haven't been able to. Plus she barely sees them out in town here while passing by. She doesn't get to hug them or talk to them personally. David is ridiculous!  After a couple days of mayhem and turmoil concerning her ex-husband, we really wanted to tie the knot! We just want to make everything official now. We have been engaged for almost a year. On July 28th 2022 it will be a year. 

We are looking forward though; and want to move passed our exes to a bright future!

The original marriage date was set for July 28th 2022! Due to problems with her ex-husband and her children and for legal reasons we are pushing that date to as soon as possible. It will not be a big wedding like we were going to have, but it will be awesome! We are having it in town in Hermiston Oregon. The date is June 20th 2022! I'm still very happily nervous and excited! We got our marriage license from the court that needs to be signed by the church leadership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons). We will be getting married from our Bishop. He is the leader of the congregation. We will have our reception and party at home where we live. A little while after that we will be going to Vegas to have a friend's party where more people can show up! My dad will be flying up to Oregon for the actual wedding ceremony and the reception! I am really excited to see him and to have time to hang out :-)

Help out with our wedding fund. This will help to fund the rest of our wedding! We are $200 away from getting the rest of our items! We're just short of getting brides maid bouquets, flowers, and the cake 👍❤️ Click the "Thank you!!!" photo to help us out the rest of the way! Any amount will help!

Our Wedding Gift Registry on Amazon!

We have a good list to choose from! There are $15 items all the way up to $300 items. Feel free to choose your gift here:

https://smile.amazon.com/wedding/share/HeatherAndDeanWedding

here is my fiancé and I!