Happy Birthday Carter My Man!!

Dear Carter Thomas Carter Musgrave,

I'm so glad that you were born on Nov. 7, 1987.

I'm so glad that we became best friends and fell in "love" at the age of 13. :) (Boy oh boy our love has come a long way.)

I'm so glad that you were such a good boy in high school.

I'm so glad that you served a full time mission in Zimbabwe Africa. (Now that it's over at least.) I'm so glad that you wanted to get married.

I'm so glad that you are so goal oriented and are working so hard in school.

But most of all, I'm so glad that you are mine and that I get to party with you on your birthday. :)

Happy Birthday Babe! You are the best friend I could have ever asked for and I love you so much! MWA!!!

To My Husband

(One of my favorite pictures of my studly husband)

It's not our anniversary, it's not your Birthday, it's not any special occasion. It's just a simple morning that I am having an overwhelming feeling of love towards you.

You are not here right now, you have left hours ago to go to work on a Saturday morning. Never an ounce of complaining is ever heard from your lips and I'm sitting here looking at a list of things you could complain about. You could complain about the clothes that are not washed, you could complain about the money that is not in our bank account, or MY old car that you are driving...........but you don't. (EVER!).

Every time I come home from work I am greeted with a smile on your face. Every time YOU come home from work I am greeted with a smile on your face. Your warm inviting spirit is felt by everyone around you. (And I am the one who gets to spend eternity with you!)

You make me want to be a better person. Someone who is motivated and organized, someone who has a respect for everyone (no matter who), and someone who puts the rest of the world before themself.

I have a long ways to go to equal who you are, but that's why I am so glad you are who I chose to stand beside. I will always be happy as long as I have you! You were my best decision, and I have only learned to love you more since the day I married you because I have come to see that you genuinely are who you portray yourself to be.

I love you Carter Thomas Carter Musgrave. (wink wink)

SURPRISE!!

Today I walk in the house from work and this is what I see...........

Carter is so awesome! This is my birthday gift!

My birthday isn't till the 16th but he wanted me to have a present to anticipate! Bring on the birthday countdown! He's the best!! I've never had a wrapped present this big!

Any guesses as to what it could be?

Congrats Bridger!!

This is a late but very important post.

Carter's little brother Bridger graduated from Fremont high school last week.

We are so proud of him!

Krishel brought a nerf football and we all signed it and were gonna give it to him after graduation, just as a fun little gift. But then Carter thought of a greater idea. He wanted to throw the football to him when they announced his name as a graduate. Great! i was honestly worried. After contemplating and quick family counsel during the ceremony, we all agreed it would still be fun if Cart threw it to him when he came back to his chair, and since we were only 4 rows up from the bottom, Carter surely wouldn't miss.

Well the time came and I could tell Carter was getting nervous. Bridger walked back to his chair and Carter yelled "Bridge!" held up the football and chucked it to him. Carter said when the football left his hand he felt good about it! He was thinking "Okay, good release, that's heading right for his chest!" But we watched Bridger put his arms up and then put them down but follow the ball with his eyes as it flew over his head. It didn't just barely miss him, it went far over his head and nailed a kid in the head! It just so happened that the kid that it hit and a curly fro and his graduation cap went flying 10 feet behind him. Mr. Hadley went scrambling for his cap and the ball and the crowd all went "Ohh!!" I was dying but we all tried to pull it off by looking behind us and saying "Who threw that!" Too bad the ball had Bridger's name written all over it and so Mr. Hadley handed it to Bridger and everyone knew it was us! Ha ha!

Oh well, sorry Fro Kid! I promise it was an accident!

Congrats Bridger!! We love you and are excited to see what you do with the rest of your life!!

This is Bridger putting his arms back down as he realizes the football is way over his head! :)

Raccoon Hunting

The other day Cart was out mowing the lawn and our dog Tank kept jumping up and down at the bottom of our tree. This is nothing new, he does this all day to birds that are nesting in our trees. Carter didn't pay much attention to him, but then noticed he was acting more excited than usual.

The next thing I know Carter is calling through the house "Jord, come look QUICK!" I noticed he was more excited than normal. I came out and stood under the enormous tree in our front yard looking up at a HUGE raccoon that Tank had treed. It freaked me out a little bit cause I just kept thinking it was gonna jump down and attack all of us and give us all rabies. Those things can be mean!! But it didn't! Tank had scared it so bad that it just sat in a ball way high up in our tree.

Before I knew it Cart was back with his 22. There is something about m husband and guns that I will just never understand. His adrenaline was pumping and he was ready to get this raccoon down. He kept saying "Goo boy Tank! Goo Boy!!" Next thing I know I am standing in my jeep out the sun roof with the camera pointed towards Cart, but my eyes pointed towards the other direction. He wanted me to record him killing this thing. AWESOME!! Thanks for nothing!

And kill it he did! I think the school down the street had to call all the kids in from recess because the thought there was a murderer in town. The gun went off like 27 times. Now we had a dead raccoon in our tree with rigamortis setting in. 5 hours later Carter had to climb the tree and get the stiff raccoon out of the tree so it didn't stink up the universe. Carter was now not as tough without a gun in his hand and he kept asking me "It's dead right? It has to be dead! There is no way this thing could still be alive!"

He finally got it out an burried it! But look how honkin huge this sucker was! I'm glad I didn't see it alive cause if that thing bit a person, they would surely die! Thanks Tank and Carter for taking care of business out here in good old West Weber!

Don't Miss This

Cart has recently bought a lawn care company.

I am so excited because last summer,
we didn't have a law mower and our lawn pretty much looked like crap.

But not this year!!!

Because I'm so excited I wanted to run a special on my blog so that

everyone else could have nice pretty lawns like

I'm going to have this summer!

YAHOO!!!

He gave me permission to run this special that I guarantee you can't beat!!

Tell Carter that you saw this special on my blog and you will

receive each cut and trim this summer for only 25 bucks!

NO LIE!!

Wait, that's not all!!!!

Also, when you sign up for summer lawn care you will receive a

FREE aeration to start the season off right!

Call Carter @ 801-645-9551 tell him his very own lovely wife sent you!! :)

(Or you can just tell him you want the BLOG SPECIAL.)

His company will be servicing lawns this summer from Bountiful to North Ogden.

Visit his website here.

Last Night

Last night at 10:30pm

as I am driving home from work,

My steering wheel starts going all crazy like a washing machine.
"Wait!", I think to myself. "I know I've felt this before."

"Oh yeah, my tire must be flat."

(immediately pull over and lock doors.)

Get out of car, smell burning rubber

and see smoke coming from a 3 inch hole in my tire.

Awesome!!

Cart, bless his heart, came to my rescue

and when he wasn't looking

I grabbed my camera and snapped these pictures.

He didn't even get mad! :)

Thanks Cart, what would I ever do without ya!!

Now I get to go buy a new tire with the

money I've bene saving for our mexico trip!
Awesome!!

Blue eyes x4

My husband is crazy about most babies but especially this one.

Who wouldn't be?

Look at those eyes and those sweet chucky cheeks!

I want one.

Happy Birthday To You!!!

This weekend was Carter's birthday!
Man did we party baby!!!
I love our families more than they could ever know!
Carter, you are the light of my life......
I'm so greatful for your sweet spirit......
I'm so greatful you were born!!!!
HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! I LOVE YOU!!!

Also happy Birthday to my Dear Old Uncle Lance, they share the same B-day!

What would you do............

.............if you glanced down towards the floor in the middle of sacrament meeting and saw this?
I had the giggles the rest of the meeting with tears streaming down my cheeks, trying to keep quite every time I'd watch another person do a double take, each one realizing how ridiculous my husband is with his ankle crossed over his knee and his leg hairs and bony ankle poking out a good 5 inches.

"Honestly Carter? Black Puma ankle socks with your suit and tie?" ........Classy! :)

(This picture was actually taken in the car after the meeting so I could share the humor.)

New Baby Ledger!

My very favorite thing I gained (next to my sweet new husband of course!:) is Carter's awesome family!! I'm late posting this because of my blogging difficulties, but now that I am starting fresh I can finally post this. On May 8th little Ledger came to the world!! Oh he is sweet!! He has been such a good baby for his mama so it makes him all the sweeter!! Krew and Kenya are the best big brother and big sister, or at least the freaking cutest!! OH!!!!! I LU DEM!!!!