Sweet Dreams....

Okay so..this is what our bed looks like in the morning at least once a week. I will note that they all ways end up on my side of the bed. Another little interesting fact is the way Tavis is laying with is arm behind his head. Nate sleeps like that..has since before Tavis was born..So has Tavis. In one of his ultra sound pictures his little arm was behind his head showing his cute little preborn sleeping position..some things you just can't stop from genetically inheriting from your parents!!!!

Home Sweet Home...

This is our home now and we LOVE IT!! However this is the before we moved in picture. I'll take a picture of it now...IT's got more of our personality to it...flowers and stuff. YEA!!

The "Quiet Game"

So this picture was taken at my step sisters wedding a month ago. these guys are like the three amigos. You've got Hailey(2) on the left, Tyler(4) in the middle and Tavis(4) on the right. They are EXPERTS on the "Quiet Game" well.....not Hailey but come on she's a girl, she has to talk all the time!! But as far as Tavis and Tyler they have gone as long as 20 minutes before...Infact Tyler won flat out a couple months ago cuz he fell asleep during the challenge and Tavis couldn't last that long!! We love living so close to family. My kids and Mandy's are sooo close. Tavis and Tyler are only 4 months apart and they act like brothers. its great. I allways wanted to live close to family growing up, so did Nate. we never got that chance. So when Nate and I moved to Missouri to try the no utah thing..we decided that giving our kids what we never had but allways wished for was more important than "being on our own". Plus the Quiet game is no fun when you play it with just your parents...right Tavis?

My soon is not your soon...I get it!!

Thankyou to all that have patiently awaited my exciting news!!! 5months is along time to wait! What can I say..life is good and when your having fun it's hard to make yourself sit down and write about it..cuz then your missing it!! plus its hard when you don't have a COMPUTER!!!! But I have one now..as far as a camera...well iv'e allmost got that one. so thats another reason why I haven't posted..ive been waiting till I could show you my exciting news!! MY FIRST HOME!!! We finally closed on our home the day before Thanksgiving. so yep we have a home, a garage, even a yard. And get this we planted a garden and flowers!!! I love it here. We live in Layton and that is close to my sister, if that wasn't enough my mom just got a job offer up here and will be 5 minutes away. she moves up here next week from St. George. My ward is to die for. infact, when people have to sale their home in our neighborhood because times are rough, they allways ball their eyes out their last day of church and vow that they will be back to build in a year or whenever they can get back. We had no idea how great the area is. Our neighbors are exactly what you would ask for. they have a little boy Tavis's age and size, a little girl who is 8 and dances extraordinary!! I get to do her hair everyonce in awhile. she loves Hailey and they all play so GREAT!! if that wasn't enough, our neighborhood is full of children tavis and Hailey's age. Infact, our ward has over 250 kids in the primary that mean 2 sunbeam classes of 13 and 4 nursery's. WE LOVE IT!! I got called as the assistant camp director for the young womans ..we leave in 2 weeks!! and NAte and I were called as the Webelos Den leaders!! Nate is very good with the 10 boys we have..I am not so good at this scout thing..it's a whole other world. I recently finished my "little Black books" for hairdressers..a 3 year journey!! a dream of mine for awhile. and now a reality!! I taught my first Taylor Andrew Guest artist Class last week in layton and It ROCKED!! I sold my books and had sooo much fun teaching future hair stylist how to take control of their passion!! I also have salon owners interested in my books for their commission stylist...so fingers crossed I meet with my first few salons this week!!! Everything is falling into place for Nate and I. we were just admiring our lives together the other day, we realized that just 4 and a half years ago we dreamed all this up..and now we are partaking!! We decided we can't wait what we cook up in the next 5 years . Tavis is 4 now..he is my big helper, Hailey is 2 and a half and refuses to potty train. I love that I have two kids who can get up on saturday mornings, turn on the cartoons and let mommy and daddy sleep!! Not sure im quite ready for the baby stage again. and since im NOT pregnant I won't have to worry about that for awhile. ( i just know some of you thought I was pregnant!) I also started working in a really nice new salon up here in Layton. it's brand new and I only work 6 days a month booth rent I LOVE IT!! Nates Job is BOOMING right now. tis the season to make your home energy efficient and Nate is the guy in all of UTAH who is an expert onall areas you could explore. I know with all Jobs you have famine and feast. right now we are in the feast stage and I am VERY grateful for this time in our lives, heaven knows we have been in the famine. However I know another time will come so i will allways be grateful for this peaceful time in life, and also prepare for the times that will surely pass us all upon our journey in life. My family is doing well. Except for my Daddy. he has Cancer and it has spread into his bones. This is very hard for me. I found out yesterday by a sweet call from my Dad who lives in Missouri. He has been in pain for over a year now and the doctors have just found it. I am so grateful that they have found the source of his pain..and now the source of all who loves him... tears. However I have great faith that God will love him and does love him and that through the atonement he will not ever suffer more than God's own personal knowledge, and so he will comfort my father in those dark hours when no others will be present, in the wee morning hours when memories pass in and out of his mind between the pain and the present, I pray, fast and kneel in my fathers behalf that our love, his childrens love, his mothers, fathers, wife's, brothers, sisters all living and past on will be with him. He is my Father and I his daughter, I will not fail him now in his time of need..his right of passage that may lead him into the next phase of this here eternity we are all apart of and going forward in. I love you Daddy. it's been to long since i called you that..but it's never to late to change. I love you.

Sincerly,
Dusti

Coming soon to a blog near you.....

Hey all! I have great new things to share with you all........lots of changes and great fun.......stay tuned.....................!!!

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