I'm ALIVE!!

Hi all!! I'm alive i promise!!! It's been a great month. We moved into a huge 3 bedroom apartment up in Cotton Wood Heights!!! I LOVE IT. My very own space. it's up on the third floor but .....trust me it's got it's pro's and cons. mostly pros. My views out of all my windows are bright green trees, I feel like im in a tree house!! We decided to get an apartment while we "decide" on where is the best place to call "Home". Its really me who has to decide..Nate could care less, he just wants me to be happy! I really like Cotton Wood it is so beautiful up here. I live so close to many parks and the rec center! it's different...being born and raised a west side girl livin up on the east side. I definetly am NOT ever going to get use to the Target up here. It's a little too uppity for my taste, instead of minni Vans and family cars, the parking lot is full of upscale Escalades and BMW's which...hey thats fine if you choose to drive a 50, 60 70,000 dollar car...but atleast ask you car dealer to throw in a book of manners and appreciation in the deal!! really i'm not kidding. Anyhow. I went to Ikea the other day and filled the cart with MY style of decorations...bright bright colors and I LOVE IT!! its fun for me to play house..its been awhile..ive been in the basement of the inlaws too long..i thought i might have lost my taste..but NAW still got it! I decided to bag doing hair at the salon..too pricy for comfort..so i have actuallybeen doing alot of hair at my apartment!! I am really suprised and grateful for how many people started calling me once I got into my own place. It's fun....My kids get great play dates with kids their own age and my clients don't have to get a baby sitter!! have you noticed all my exclamation marks?!? it's cuz im happy...IM FREE!! i am so grateful to beable to have had that time at my inlaws..great people...it's taught me to appreciate all the little things i took for granted in the past, like candles of my choice burning, icecream and chocolate in my fridge longer than 2 days (my two inlaw brothers lived with us to) treats went really really fast in that house. I also like to not wear alot...alot and i don'thave to mention other freedoms that are nice now too.. you get the point. My mommy is coming to spend the week with me next week at MY place. haven't had that EVER. so we are taking our time and making some more money to be completly ready to buy in 5 months. Tavis and Hailey love our home too. they don't like climbing 3 flights of stairs, but they love their own rooms, room to run and make a mess, couches and big pillows to throw on the ground and just have crazy FUN!! they sleep so well in their own rooms, it's nice (sigh) we haven't been to our ward yet..but we did go to the wrong ward the first sunday and everybody was so so nice, we were bummed when we found out the church right next to our apartments wasn't our ward building (figures) but thats ok. I love the fresh air and the cool mornings. my favorite is beign able to cook again and vacuum carpet(weird) I know. I still go a little stir crazy (we have just one car right now) I don't like not having a way out...it bugs me, but we also didn't have internet or any kind of tv for the first month. that was hard. so sometimes nate drops us off at the UTA Frontrunner and we hop on it up to Layton where our very bestest friendslive my sista Mandy and my kids cousins her children. she picks me up at the station just down the road from her house and I get my "OUT" as my Nate puts it. I need to get some picturesposted. im horrible at it. SORRY I will get better as we update our computer stuff. My kids are just too cute not to share!! I curl hailey's hair in little wringlets and put a big bow in it now..she literely makes my heart melt. My little ta man is potty training right now and he hates it as much as I do. but he's getting the hang of it. Hailey wants to potty train too, she actually is better at telling me she needs to go than tavis is....BUt i can't do both at the same time. the other day they both pooped in their thomas the train and little pony underwear.... I lost it. it's just too much for me right now. so she's gotta wait till Tavis is done. Nate is loving life right now, he's got a happy wife and kids. a cooked meal most of the time, and his job is just exploding. for all you ladies out there that have ever had a husband in a job they don't like...you know how nice it is to have them in a job that they LOVE. it makes all the difference. I feel really blessed. and I thank my heavenly father above for all of this...he has really made a master piece of this life..he 's really good at making "joy" just right for me even down to the bright green trees swaying back and forth outside my windows. the hard part for me is excepting it or feeling worth it all. I lovehim so much and wouldn't change anything he has given to me, he definetly made this heart beating inside me..how else would he know so well how to fill it with all the right things in this world. For the first time in 10 years I am going to vote this year. I feel horrible every time I thank God for my freedom and know that I don't utilize the voice inside he's given me. This election is very interesting to me and though my GUT tells me Barack I need to research more. there are some bills he has voted for inthe past that really go against some core values of mine such as abortion.. to me it's more woman rights vs. human rights and i just have a problem with it. as for as McCain goes..he seems like a puppet to me with his pretty little pony prancing close by to give him that "making history" vote . I just don't feel like his heart is in it like Baracks is but is Baracks in the right place? i don't know yet but I DO KNOW that i am going to vote cuz it does matter...all of our choices matter and are accounted for at the end of this life and I want to make sure that i make the choices that matter, and really show our for fathers that i DO appreciate the sacrifices of their lives and so many others for this right. could you imagine seeing them after this life and saying "nope, didn't ever really get a round to that voting thang" sorry!!!" just can't do that. anyhow, thats where im at...ENJOYING! hope you all are too!!



LoveDusti

Tavis "tid Bit"

Tavis is sick. I think its his tooth, and I feel like a bad mommy for not being better at brushing his teeth and flossing them. I have allways had really good teeth. Now I know that is not just a blessing but a curse. i don't take the best care of my teeth and so I have handed that habit down with my childrens. he has had a high fever for the past few days, plus his nose is running non stop and he won't eat cuz it hurts his mouth he was up all night screamin and delirious i guess...talking and screaming as if he was in a nightmare. the side of his face is poofing a little and I don't have to guess what that means, i've seen it happen to my mom and when i was prego with Hailey my teeth went to the dogs and same thing happen to me. Emergency root Canal...ahhhh oh those words strike me hard in the heart and the mouth. I can handle any needle anywhere...just not the gums. yuck. not to mention the cost OUCH. but the worst of it is it's my fault. It's one thing when you let it happen to yourself...it's quiet the other when its your child who suffers. Any how we are going to give him a blessing today to see if that can hold him off till 2 morrow..when dentist are open, but if it gets any worse I can't wait any longer. heres the Tavis Tid Bit:

a couple nights ago Tavis and I were playin the bed game!! Not a game either of us like to play. its when I put him to bed and he gets up 20 times ...well i think it was the 21st time of putting him in "naughty time out" where I hold him tightly in place for a couple mintutes. He hates to be restrained. as I was asking him if he was ready to go to bed and stay there he says, "mommy, sing to me and rock me..I want to fall asleep in your arms"...My heart melted and seriously how do you say no to that? so I sang him a few of our favorites rocked him close to me like I did when he was a baby and just breathed in the moment. Every thing about it, the smell of his fresh clean hair, baby lotion soft on his skin, his warm little heart beat beating next to mine. I love My little tavis and there isn't anything I won't do for him or give up of myself for his better. Even if it means brushing and flossing his teeth 5 times a daily!!!

Sorry little Guy...I promise I'll do better.

Love mommy

My Mullet Girl

Hailey's Hair is getting so long and I love it. Mostly cuz she has a mullet! just kidden. I have NEVER cut her hair, Crazy I know, considering I am a hair stylist. But i just can't. I want her to have really long pretty hair. I was an 80's baby so I allways had short hair. Plus Nate has made it very clear that I can do what I want with my hair but Haileys I must not touch!! HE's a long hair fan...thus my quest to grow my hair out. even though I remind him he fell in love with me when my hair was the shortest it has ever been...but we all know that I wouldn't last long growing it out if I didn't want it myself!! I Love having a girl. I know it's wrong to live vicariously threw your kids but I do...and I have big plans for them...Tavis is going to be a super star Basketball/Volleyball player and Hailey is going to be the best Dancer/leader of the free world there ever was!!!! HAHAHAHA I'm half kidding. Anyhow I'm pretty proud of myself for not touching hers or my hair on our(mean "my") mission for long hair!!

Happy 4th of...what are we thinking??

Okay, so these pictures are of Tavis and Hailey last 4th of July, and I got to thinking...all year roundI am constantly telling, warning, screaming..."get away from the stove..it's HOT""don't play with that candle it will BURN you""don't stand too close to the fire you could catch on FIRE"
Yet every year on the 4th of July I hand my children a stick that has a big flame moving down it towards their hand and say.."have fun"!!! HMMMMM...

Finally some pictures!

Tavis "Tid Bits"

Last Saturday while I was at the Salon and NAte was running some appointments....My Inlaws had Hailey and Tavis. Since I had Broken their 20 year old washer with my 2 sheets, one comforter, one small blanket and a couple of pillow shams...they needed to go look at new washers!! the Brave souls took Tavis and Hailey to the store with them. When I got home that evening My Father in law told me a funny little Tavis Tid Bit: " well, the kids did great at the store! Tavis really likes the BIG SCREEN TV's" he was pretending to drive with Batman. It was hard to pry him from it (typical male) but we had to go a few floors up to get to the washers. So we all piled into the elevator and as the doors closed he got all excited about the movement up, he stood right by the doors facing them when the door had closed and was in the same spot when they opened a few floors up. when they opened and looked out onto the new floor he looked up at me while shrugging his little shoulders and asked with a very confused look on his face...WHAT HAPPENED?????"


I didn't get it at first and then I couldn't stop laughing. all the merchandise had changed from one floor to the other and he was sooo confused why it had changed!
Its great to really make yourself look through you child's eyes....its full of suprises and change, new adventures and love!!

Dusti

Alot as happened.....

OKAY OKAY...I will get you all updated on my life!!! first things first...I GRADUATED!!! YEA and not only that...i actually passed both my written and practical the first time!! guess the 2000 endless hours at taylor andrews did something afterall. My last day was Wednesday June something I can't remember but I still had the Hair show to do which was June 26th so it was the wednesday before that. Anyhow. HAIR SHOW...SOOOO much fun,and a little bit of DRAMA! what can you expect when you get so many girlz together...but thats not really the reason for the Drama cuz my group was "off the chain" I loved my group we worked well together. therefore our segment of the hair show the "brittany speirs" segment was simply the BEST!! So i have lots of pictures to show..someday soon. Brittany griego mullford my best friend of 12 years was AMAZING!!! I did her hair in the biggest fro you have ever seen!!! Okay, then the 28th I did a Bridal show at the gateway. My very first one (great oppurtunity) only problem..I was the only hair dresser to show up and so I had 8 updos to do in an hour and a half!! no problem right? well I rocked it..even though some of the models were a bit difficult to work with (bitchy high maitenance things) i got it done!! Many of you are probably wanting to know about our new house....?? WEll, the wicked witch of the west fell on it..therfore we are back on the market AGAIN!!!! But it's okay!! really i believe that Heavenly father is watching over us and so the minute i heard that there was a glitch and we weren't getting the house..I felt PEACE inside. but I will say..that I have been daydreaming today about being in that home..(suppose to have moved on friday the 27th) BUT can you imagine having to move in the middle of both Hair shows,,NO WAY!! last week kicked my arse! I skipped church today and slept till 2:30 pm (not kidding) Nate's a sweet heart and took on the kiddies so I could try to catch up on some sleepies!! (don't know why i am ending everything with ies..) anyhow starting August 2nd I am officially a HAir stylist at Blush Salon in Sugar House!!! Because I am a mommy first..I will only be taking clients every other saturday, plus I still assist he ever amazing Cody Allen on Fridays sooooo book an appointment with me..i'm quite good!! anyhow..I did take a client last Saturday...first one in the Salon, and it was soooo fun. I love the people i work with they are all very gifted and passionate and I LOVE being surrounded by passionate people!! i wish we could find a home in Sugar House. I really really like it alot, unfortunatly the space we need would run us up into the 3 and 400,000 in that area.. CRAZINEss! allright..that is my life in a nut shell..lots of good news to report and really i will post some pictures someday..I promise!!

PEACE
Dusti

Tavis "Tid Bits"

Tavis turned 3 back in March. he is my oldest and his speach gets better and better every day. the other day I was in a time crunch so instead of putting the kids in a bath I put them in the shower with me...usually they play with their toys while I wash my hair, but this time Tavis kept pushing my stomach in and saying "gushy" "gushy" "gushy"....then he took my stomach in his hands on each side of my belly button and made a mouth with my "Gushiness" and said in a low voice while moving the skin back and forth like a mouth."I am gushy, I am gushy..ha ha ha. I couldn't stop laughing and decided that it was a very good thing I am not paranoid about my weight..otherwise I am pretty sure that would have sent me right into a deep state of depression!!

The next day...while my kids were eating lunch..i figured i had a few moments to steal away and read a chapeter in "new moon" the second book of the twilight series. well..it's not that easy once you start up that book you lose track of time. tavis had finished his lunch and was playing with his cars by my feet on the floor. I thought(oh he's having funI'll keep reading) well I realized he threw his cars down a few minutes later and ran pouting into to next room. Ipulled my attention from Bella and Jacob Black for a minute to ask him what the matter was? he yelled from the next room "I NEED SOME ATTENTION" not much can get me to close that book but that was too much. i went in the next room to see his little pout lip shadowed by his brows turned in and eyes hurt. I took him in my arms and said "what did you say" he looked up at me with his powder blue pouting eyes and repeated " I Need some attention". I couldn't believe me ears...What honesty. from now on i am going to do the same thing to my husband when march madness comes around...sad thing is..he probably won't here me. and that is a Tavis "Tid Bit" for todaY!!!!

I have fallen for another man....

Well I guess he's not really a man....You see he couldn't be. He says all the right things and is brutely honest, yet listenes like he's never heard me speak before and every word has a reaction..a passionate reaction. And he doesn't just kiss...he makes a path of unbearable cold ice breaths up my neck and barely....I guess I should make it clear...it's not me he's kissing, or wanting...it's Bella. And even though I put myself in her place...I have to admit I could never be as brave as she is or have an ounce of self control. For all of you Twilight readers you KNOW exactly what I am talking about. for all of you who haven't read the book yet...don't pick it up until you have atleast 3 days and nights to read it...cuz you won't put it down. I was up till 4 this morning reading it. I read 250 pages this morning and in a few chapters I'll be done with the 500 page book that I started Sunday evening. Thanks Mandy for over taking my life with this great gift you gave me!! It would never work between Edward and I anyways....I wouldn't beable to keep my hands off him..and we all know what would happen if Bella didn't have the self control and calmness that she has!!! Sooo..I should be studying for my written on Saturday morning...I guess I have an excuse now if I fail...it's all Edwards fault!!


Dusti

What LDS Single dances.....

Are really like...especially the "hot" guys. For all those that aren't on facebook I thought I would post this on my blog cuz it's funny!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8WoyPEVRFo

thanks to Megan for sending it to me.

Good news.....

We close on that home in Stansbury Park on June 20th!!!! After we finally figured it all out with the "for sale by owners" I let myself get excited. yea my own home and fenced yard!! whenever I tell people that we are moving to Stansbury Park I hear wonderful things about the people and the area, so that excites me even more. So I just spent atleast 20 minutes on a post and I somehow erased it..AHHH. it's like 2 in the morning but I know that if I don't get it done now it's gonna be another two to 4 weeks before I get on again. So tavis and Hailey are getting so big. it kinda makes me sad. I love this time in my life and I don't really want it to change, I enjoy story time with them. we do it twice a day once with just them and me before nap time and then when im not at school at night(with daddy). we all cuddle up under "mommy and da da's covers" it usually lays Nate then Tavis then Me and Hailey travels and sits on our heads through out the story. when Nate is there he gets the official vote to read. I love watching the kids giggle while daddy reads the cat in the hat in his scottish accent. it's so fun to be a kid sometimes with them, like the other day I took them to the park and I actually played with them instead of parking my butt on the grass and talking with my friends. I swinged with them, I tried the monkey bars (im a wuss) i went down the slides and it wasn't so much the playing that was fun, but the sparkle in their eyes that only a child has that made me giggle in my heart. Hailey Loves the swings...I got a few swings in with her on my lap until she realized Tavis was swingin on his own. Well, then of coarse she has to do it alone..little miss Independant. Oh to have her confidence. It was fun for me to see Tavis explore new heights (literally) he climbs higher and higher every time and even though he falls to get down, he will get up, shake it off and climb higher the next..oh to have his bravery. I felt so emotionally fed after our time at the park...If I could just be like my little ones...I would be on top of the world! Nate is doing so well at work and I am so proud of him. He has finally gotten into a career that is so perfect for who he is and what he loves to do... help people and support his family doing it. He is the Sales and Marketing Manger for Energy Star Alliance. if you ever need to make your home energy efficient..give nate a call! He's amazing at it and has quiet the passion for it. Life is good. I am part of a Hair show that My school puts on yearly. my group is over 10 models and 20 dancers for the Britney spears segment. It is so fun. One of the Models is my Bestest Friend Brittany Griego Mulford. I get to take her hair Blonde and watch her walk her sassy self down the cat walk. If any of you want to come let me know. Tickets are 20 bucks at the Salt Palace June 26th @ 7 oclock and sell out every year. all proceeds go to charity and it's way way fun!!I graduate June 26th. I could be done but I have been taking my time. I am really into the Hair show so I thought I might as well get hours for it and take my time. We plan on moving into our Home the last week of June. not excited about the packing and moving and unpacking but so excited to get into our home! well it's like 3 now and Hailey usually wakes up at 7:30....so I'll let you go. someday I will post pictures..I have alot of them..just not posting them. have a good week and be a kid with your kids it's amazing what they can teach you.

Dusti

Beware of "for sale by owners"...

Good NEWS.....suppose to be closing on a home in 2 weeks!!! Not likely going to happen. Why you ask? well let me just tell you....we just happened to stumble across some of the most ignorant "for sale by owners" that you can possibly run into. If any of you are in the house hunting or saleing right now...you know that it is a buyers market, not a sellers.... a buyers...I'm the buyer they are the seller..YET they have proceeded to have their Fathers (both) call my realtor and yell at him after every addendum we have sent, they rejected our repair addendum, My poor realtor has had to drive to Stansbury Park from Layton to sit down with their whole dam fam and explain every word to them.(twice) I love this house..its exactly what we have been looking for that's why we offered 2000 grand more than they were asking AND are financing our own realtor costs...YES i know we are crazy to do that in a market such as this (I've heard it from every mortgage and realtor person since that i have talked with) BUT its got everything to a tee..of what we are looking for. even the color of paint on the walls! so you tell me..am I crazy or are these people really stupid? they must be liven in a bubble of some sort. I packed the kids up yesterday (Saturday), drove all over the place all day, pricing out stuff. (realtor is out of town) any ways..found out that we could build for 3000 less than what we are paying them..AND have no drama!! anyhow...long story short..probably going to terminate this contract, and the good part..watch this house sit on the market for at least 6 more months and sell for 20 grand less of what they are asking for. I am mean i know...but come on people.....!!! Anyways, I haven't been on here for awhile..slowly getting done with my last month of school...each week my graduation gets further and further down the road...I've skipped a few days or so...I'm just done mentally there..BUT not physically . I've got 80 hours left and that's gonna take me a little while to get..seeming as how I'm not too motivated to go right now. weird question for ya? why does the state make cosmetologist get 2000 hours and real estate agents only 90, before they will issue a licence? Even general Contractors only need a few hundred before they are out building the biggest investment of your life time...okay I'm going to go to bed..I'm on one 2 night. catch ya later..

Dusti

tissue anyone...tissue?

I have got the worst head COLD EVER!! there's nothing like a great big cough attack right in the middle of sacrament meeting. Or can you imagine being this bride...I am curling her hair for her big day and between hair sprays I sneeze, cough, and hack a few up into a tissue...eeeew I know gross. man I have missed two days in a row this week from school and 2 night I was running a fever. I am sure my client thought I had early menopause with hot flashes, cause I was burnin up and sweatin because of it. anyhow the good news is that I am done House hunting!! (kinda) I actually found a home in north salt lake (new foxboro subdivision) that I absolutly loved, at the top of our price range, but I didn't want to leave the house, I loved it so much. Nate even liked it but said it was too much for the square footage. instead of getting mad, I gave up. told him "okay i'm done" I am not house hunting anymore. I am sick, I am drained and I just can't do this anymore. sooo the responsibilty lies soley on you now. he simply said "ok" and that was that. it has taken every ounce of me to not look on ksl or the mls. but it's been nice. My realitor gets married today so he has a couple weeks off. we'll see how well nate does without him or I looking. for those of you that don't know...we live in our inlaws home in West Valley. it's kinda been nice being back in the old "hood". lots of good memories. really wouldn't mind living in westvalley, but we haven't found what we are looking for. for every house i like I pull up a sex offender website that tells me how close and how many are in/or suroundin area....haven't had the best of luck in the good ol WVC, so we are trying Sandy now just really pricy. guess you pay for the address there. anyhow, I am going to post pictures of my kids and my photo shoots next time I promise. I am horrible at posting them cuz I have to be up at my sistas to do it. My computer won't. or I just don't know how. anyhow, I gotta go my nose is becoming a waterfall and it stings!!......eeeeww gross I know!
sniffling Dusti

Definetly not Inspired....

I am sooo done with House hunting. I just want to be done!! I don't even care anymore...a little shack off to the side of the road...SOLD!! I just want a home of our own. I want my kids to beable to be a regular 3 and 1 yr old and tear apart their own home. There's nothing like living with family and having your kids draw on the wall, poop on the floor, pee on the carpet, scream resentlessly at 3:20AM in the morning for an hour!! you name it, my kids have done it. which is part of growing up..and shouldn't be a big deal. instead they have to not only deal with 4 grown ups telling them no, they have to feel the constant anxiety of their parents day in and out over things that are just natural for toddlers to do. And not to mention things that Mommy and Daddy wouldn't usually say no to in our own home with our own rules!! I'm not ungrateful for all that our family has sacrificed for us these past 8 months. I'm just done. all those who have been in my situation know exactly what I am talking about. I am so excited to do just regular things in the privacy of my own home like: walking around in my underwear, eating icecream in the living room at 12 am in the morning with the tv on and high. screaming really loud at Nate when I want to. theres nothing like getting in a fight with your husband in fromt of the inlaws. it just doesn't happen, which is ok i guess, but a really good fight means making up...and theres not much of that going on with family upstairs and to both sides of your room that you share with both children!! It's amazing how you live different when others are observing. Oh and I will really enjoy skipping a sunday here and there without feeling like a teeanager again! all of you who think im crazy, I want you to keep track just today of habits, words, eating habits, movies you watch, clothes you wear, activities you do that you wouldn't feel comfortable doing in front of in laws..or just plain anybody else other than your spouse and children. I am so blessed to have amazing In laws, cuz if they weren't I would be insane by now! We have the best Realtor EVER. he has been patiently working with us for a year now. he's helped us make 5 different offers in 5 different cities, and yet not ment to be. I know that heavenly Father is going to lead us to where we need to be. But in the mean time...AHHHH. I think what is....is and it will happen the way it should, I'm just venting.

Inspired

Inspiration...what a word. It doesn't quite explain the way I feel. However it is the closest way to describe what I felt during President Monsons talks today. I absolutly loved President Hinckley and every time he talked I would smile and sometimes cry. and of coarse I sustained him as a prophet and I believed that he was a true prophet. But I have never felt the feelings that I did today as our 16th President of the church spoke. his words peirced me to the very core of my soul and I know that President Monson is the only true prophet on this earth today. Hope is another word I am feeling. have you ever come away from a conference feeling like you can never "catch up" or do everything that is expected? I feel hope that flutters into simplicity. and I can do that. As he spoke of his ancesters and told the regular "monson stories" like he allways does, I felt something different. so much so that after I put the kids down for their naps I rewinded it back to his first talk of the day the end of the first session, I listened to that talk 3 times in a row and it's funny because at the end of the third one I'll admit I fell asleep, but in my sleep I was hearing the other talks spoken in the second session but in my dream it was the prophet speaking. I felt the spirit so strong as I cuddled in a gushy blanket on my couch in my sweats with a towel wrapped around my head. and as the tears flowed down my cheeks I thought "this is great" I can have the same feelings from heaven anywhere in this world..as long as I open my heart up to feel them and realize that I am his child and he will never forsake me..or in other words leave me alone. I am so happy right now, and its not because I have a big house(cuz i don't) and its not from just eating a huge amount of ice cream, or it's not even because I have things...its because I have been touched by something that is so familiar to my spirit that makes me feel like home. I wonder if thats why i get so depressed when i am not living up to the covenants I have made...it's not anything anti depressants or shopping sprees can take away or fix. its simply that I'm home sick. and when I am not doing whats right I don't feel the spirit that reminds me what home really feels like above. I am so thankful that I have a temple so close to me and that I can go and feel what my home is suppose to feel like. I went last saturday for the first time in two years. the jordan river temple. the temple I recieved my convenants in. as I walked through the doors the familar smell made me smile and I got warm fuzzies all inside. I allways like to look around and picture my own home looking and feeling the same. I know that this is the only place I can go and be truly safe and free from satans constant nagging. I want my home to be the same for my husband ans children. so first things first....got to get a home and second I need to clean better!!! hehehe. anyways, I love today and I just wanted to share. I hope you all were touched by our living prophets words today!! how blessed we are to live in a time where we can hear an actual prophet speak.


Love Dusti

Photo Shoot

I love doing Photo Shoots! they are my favorite part of doing hair. I am not the type of hair stylist that likes to take clientelle day in and day out same thing over and over...I like to be way more creative with my talent..! I do that with Photo Shoots. right now I am building up my portfolio with pictures of what I like to do most a variety in all shapes and colors of...beautiful, sexy, curly, spunky, a-line, long,short, hair!! it's sooo fun to have this idea in your head, find a model, pick out the clothes, do the hair, have someone do their makeup the way you want it done and create this picture that you saw in your head. you know all the pictures you see in magazines..adds that are selling jewelery, clothes, purses, etc. those are Photo Shoots...thats what i ultimatly want to be hired out to do...sooo fun, but so much work. it wouldn't seem like it but really, there is hours and hours of work on those models and then an hour or so of shooting the right angle to catch the hair just right, the body language just right and the whole over effect just right. for example: yesterday I did two photo shoots. My first model I put extensions in her hair the night before..that took 2 hours. then yesterday I got to school at 8 AM. her photo shoot was scheduled downtown at 1:45 (should be plenty of time right?) well, one thing I learned from my last photo shoots NOTHING EVER GOES AS PLANNED. So My model finally shows up at 10. I wash her hair blow dry it and get started on the curling..I set it in pin curl pins to set the curls just right and we are out the door at 12 to get her outfit at the mall! (she didn't have time the night before to get it, as planned) But I rocked it...we were in and out of the mall in a half hour with exactly the shoes, shirt, hat and shorts needed. we got back to school at 1 and my brilliant makeup artist had been waiting for 45 minutes to get started (oops) well, I decided to cancel our 1:45 shoot time and take the 3:45 open slot!! which was perfect, we finished makeup and hair at around 3 and we were off...the shoot site was AMAZING!! it was downtown off 4th south and its an old building with amazing graffiti all over it...her photo shoot was out of this world and I am very excited to see them in a few weeks (i'll post them when I get them so you can see). My next photoshoot is scheduled for 6:15, my model for that shoot showed up as I was leaving for my first, so I had my M.A.C. make up artist work on her while I was gone. I got back to school at 4:45. traffic is bad so I need to account for that going back. we were missing a white shirt for her outfit, so we run to the local Genex and can't find a small white shirt anywhere..they were all large and medium (and this model is tiny) so luckily I find one that is hidden by someone that I think was planning on coming back to buy it later (sucker, I got it first) so we end up getting back to school at 5 and i whip out a "Dusti Do" up do in 15 minutes. and we are off!!! ( I'm starving) and we get to the photo shoot where Abby (the most amazing photographer) was wrapping up with the photo shoot before us! luckily time change had happened on Saturday and the sun was still giving us something to work with!! we got done shooting around 6:45 and there you have it...started at 8AM and allmost 12 hours later I will have 2 great pictures for my portfolio!!! I stayed for the next appointment which was for Phil...He's my little brother..I've adopted him. he's my age but...I feel like I am his big sis..he calls me his mom and his conscience, cause I keep him in line !! ( just kidden) but anyways, he's soo soo talented at hair and his model looked ridiculously amazing and his shoot should be in a magazine. it was freezing at this point and we were there till 8...then we all went to my favorite..Litza Pizza downtown, and stuffed ourselves silly, then we headed back to school where I had to clean up and then helped a teacher apply color and lock up the school. I pulled into the drive way at 12AM...LONG DAY!!! but so fun. nate watched the kids in the morning and my mother in law took the day off to help ...(she's my angel). great thing about that day is I got 16 hours in at school and thats 16 hours closer to graduation!!!! ( middle of may I should hit my 2000 hours) and then Im outa there baby!!! so excited!!

Pregnancy SCARE!!

Let me take you back 3 years ago to 2004...my first pregnancy SCARE!! I was training at the Gateway Applebees and as they were training me I got really really dizzy and felt like i was going to faint...went to the bathroom and dry heaved. As I came out of the bathroom my trainer stared at my pail pail face and sent me home. I was so sick I couldn't even drive, so I called Nate, he came quickly to pick me up, as I got into the car he had a big smile on his face..."your pregnant"? the thought hadn't even passed my mind,...( i had just gotten out of a two year marriage where I never even had a pregnancy scare and lets just say..I should have) so volts of terrified electricity zoomed through my allready messed up body and I almost threw up again. Results: TAVIS MURRAY born March 2005. Hailey wasn't a scare...she was planned. this time around I had an IUD placed so that We did not have a baby till atleast 3 years after the last. well it's only been 15 months and here I am... a couple weeks ago I started to feel really really tired and even a little throwy uppy, but i put it off cuz theres no way, I have had this wonderful no period IUD in for over a year now, and that just can't happen. well, i was telling julie my friend at school about this all, and she looks at me, puts her hand on my shoulder and with a somewhat sympathetic voice says "Dusti, you know that IUDs can be knocked out of place"? the same terrifying Volts streamed through my veins faster than any blood in my body and I felt like I had to throw up again. well....here goes...Result: NOT PREGNANT!!!! (hahaha I had you all going) well now you know how I have felt the past 2 weeks of my life. Doctor says IUD is in great and I should be baby free for as long as I want. sigh of relief. cuz let me tell you, we are going to be baby free for atleast 2 years. so...today I slept all DAY, not even kidding couldn't get up and i feel throwy uppy...whats the deal? am I just over doing it? my life is really really over tooo toooo busy , and I don't take my vitamins very well...tell me thats it and that a pee test is just as good as a blood test? plus he checked my uterus out with and ultra sound and I didn't see anything..could you at 2 weeks? I'm trippen myself out here, cuz i usually don't feel this way... unless...no its not so and im going to leave it at that.

A twinkle In Time

So you are all probably wondering "Why is her heading "A Twinkle in Time"? Well...I'll tell you, you see I have had some pretty "deep" events happen to me in the past weeks that have made me realize that all this...all these pictures, posts, memories, heartaches, joy, blah blah blah its all just A TWINKLE IN TIME. We are all so much older than our bodies or our total hours put in on this earth. We are old, we are wise, Infact we have been around soooo long that time is a foriegn thing to us (thats my excuse...you know?... for my poor time management skills!)all kidding aside, I love this particular Twinkle in my time on this earth, and thats what i want to focus on...the Twinkles, not the dark spots that come and go. So thats why I named it A Twinkle in Time..because I want to share my Twinkles with you..(not to be misunderstood with tinkles) Love you all and hope you enjoy my weirdness. Thanks to Mandy...she knows why.

Family Fun bowling at Fat Cats

What Dusti Means

What Dusti Means

You are balanced, orderly, and organized. You like your ducks in a row. You are powerful and competent, especially in the workplace. People can see you as stubborn and headstrong. You definitely have a dominant personality. You are a very lucky person. Things just always seem to go your way. And because you're so lucky, you don't really have a lot of worries. You just hope for the best in life. You're sometimes a little guilty of being greedy. Spread your luck around a little to people who need it. You are the total package - suave, sexy, smart, and strong. You have the whole world under your spell, and you can influence almost everyone you know. You don't always resist your urges to crush the weak. Just remember, they don't have as much going for them as you do. You are a seeker. You often find yourself restless - and you have a lot of questions about life. You tend to travel often, to fairly random locations. You're most comfortable when you're far away from home. You are quite passionate and easily tempted. Your impulses sometimes get you into trouble. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing. You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long. You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start.

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