Meet Gus

Meet Augustus......AKA Gus.

Some may call me crazy,

But life is teaching me fast that I can't always

listen to what everyone else thinks

I have to listen to my own heart.

and this little puppy is just what my heart needed,

despite what everyone else may have thought!! :)

Even my Carter is falling for him! :)

Rising From the Dead!

Hello World.......

It's been a while!

Lot's has happeded in these few month of no blogging!

I will try to catch up with pictures, but until then, here's what's been going on at our little house:

Christmas (of course)

I Started a Bachelor's Program

Cart Started Another Semester of Pain and Misery :(

New Puppy

New Job (Yes I have a NEWER job than my new job! :) )

Can't wait to tell you all about it!

Stay Tuned!!

I Love Tonight!!

Right now I feel like I am drugged because I spent 45 minutes in the bathtub tonight. :) I like feeling like I've been drugged..... Is that bad? It's an innocent kind of drugged, more like I'm so tired I can hardly keep my eyes open, and when I get out of the hot water, I can feel that my heart is beating slower...... like I've been drugged. It feels good cause I know as soon as I am done tapping on my keyboard I can crawl into my cold sheets and close my eyes for the night. I hope the wind blows hard again tonight. I think it feels cozy to be in bed with Carter when the wind is blowing.

Tonight I am sitting up in my bed typing on my laptop. As I lay here I can hear Tay-Tay teaching my cute husband how to do his math homework. Carter is so cute!! I love him! He gets so excited when he learns new things. I have really been amazed with his love for education since he has come home from Africa. :) I am still listening to them....... I like it!!

I have it good!

I hope everyone has had as nice as evening as I have! Sweet Dreams!

Letter to Mindy

Dear Mindy,

You don't know me but I was at your concert tonight. I took pictures with you and my cute sister and darling mother and had you sign our Anchor CD's that we can't get enough of. :) I even bought your sheet music that I will probably never be good enough to play. (I will keep practicing.)

My husband served a mission on Zimbabwe Africa and I wrote to him while he was away. (Before we were married obviously.)........ He had very rough days there, emotionally and physically. In one of his letters he wrote to me he told me about how he would lay in bed at night and put his iPod in his ears and listen to a particular singer. It was the only thing he could do to find peace at times. Immediately I went to the store and bought CD he was talking about....YOUR CD, and I have loved you ever since. :)

You may just be doing what you do some days, but I hope you know that what you do touches so many lives. Thank you for coming to Farr West tonight. We love you even though we don't know you personally.

-Hugs and Kisses,

Jordan Ryann Musgrave

P.S. My husband thinks your next CD should be acapella because your voice is absolutely INCREDIBLE. It's so nice to hear your voice live and know that you truly are just as good as your recording voice. :)

My Dress

This morning I looked through my dresses trying to decide what to wear to church. Still on the hanger, I would pull each dress out, look at it for about 5 seconds and then let go of it. "No. Not this one. What shoes would I wear with this one?........." Then I came to one dress at the back of the closet that I hadn't seen for a while. A dress that has a lot of meaning to me.

(Isn't it funny how such simple things can have such deep meaning in our lives? I love that!)

It was my dress I wore to my wedding luncheon after my sealing.

Memories and butterflies came to me. For that minute I remembered so much!

I remembered looking and looking for a dress to wear after the temple.

I remembered FINALLY finding that specific dress and FINALLY feeling like it was the right one for MY special day.

I remembered packing the dress night before my wedding to head to the hotel in Salt Lake City where I would be getting MARRIED the next morning.

I remembered changing out of my pure white temple dress and slipping into this dress in the changing room after all of our pictures had been taken after my AMAZING, PERFECT sealing.

I remembered wearing my dress into my luncheon at the Wight House in Bountiful. I was over come with a feeling of love looking at all the people who had come to support our new lives together, and for all the people who loved me so much to make the day so perfect.

I remembered walking out of the luncheon with my new husband with hours to spare before the reception.

I loved that day so much! Oh I loved it!

And I love my dress for all the good memories it brings back to me! :)

(At Our Wedding Luncheon March 7, 2009)

I decided I would wear it today. So I got ready for church with time to spare.

Carter and I were assigned to give the opening and closing prayer in sacrament meeting.

Carter went up on the stand and as I folded my arms to listen to the prayer, I suddenly realized that somehow I had forgotten something very important this morning.............. MY BRA!!! OOOOPPS!! Then I suddenly remembered that I was assigned to give the closing prayer. Oh boy! By the time Carter came back down to sit after giving the prayer, I was laughing so hard. And by the time I told him the delima, I had tears streaming down my face.

I now have another fond memory in this dress that I love. :)

(Before Church September 12, 2010)

Hope you all had a nice sabbath.

Don't miss out on my new favorite singer's concert tomorrow night at Bella's Courtyard in Farr West. :)

I'll see you there.

My New Favorite Thing...............

If you are looking for something new to put in your CD player or on your iPod for a little pick me up, I have been listening to this darling CD all weekend.

I Love it! Also, she wrote the song "All About Your Heart" for another person that I truly admire.

All and all, I LOVE THIS CD.

Preview the album here.

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)

More Good News

The ENT clinic just hired 2 new nurses, 1 full time and 1 part time. I am the new full time nurse so I have just been waiting to meet the part time nurse who I will be working with.

Ever since Tuesday when they called and offered me the job I have been telling Carter that I hope the other nurse is nice and that she isn't too bossy and mean. :) I just told myself no matter who else gets hired, these hours are fabulous and I couldn't have asked for anything better.

Today I was emailing my new manager about certain things coming up and I nonchalauntly asked her if they had hired the part time nurse yet. She emailed me back and told me that yes they had and her name was Pam Folkman. I about came out of my chair I was so excited. Pam is one of my cutest friends at work. She actually worked on one of the floors and every time I'd float there we would have a blast and talk forever about life. I just loved Pam!! Now what do you know? We are going to get to work hand in hand with each other. Neither one of us even knew that the other one of us had applied so it is just so crazy that it fell into place so nicely.

You can tell when the Lord has his hand in your life when you couldn't have even planned it so perfect if you wanted to set it up!

I am so excited and so eager to get started. Thanks to everyone who has congratulated me! That really means a lot to me!

New Job= New Me

I just got word that I am now the new Allergist at Dr. Scheuller's ENT clinic.

I can't explain how happy I am!! Seriously, anyone who knows me knows how bad I need this!

GOODBYE weekends, holidays, nights, benadryl every night before I work, feeling like I've been run over by a train everyday after work, waiting up at 3am to find out what floor I will be working on, and being called off unplanned.

HELLO set schedule, happy staff, awesome well known doctor, primary class (my calling that has been so very horribly pushed to the back burner), Sunday afternoons, weekend family get aways, off at 2pm on Fridays, hour lunch every day, sanity, and hey maybe even a trip or 2 to the gym before work. (maybe, maybe not)

I am like a new woman already!!

I know my prayers are heard..........that's all I'm going to say!

Freedom At Last

This weekend Cart and I were able to pay off my student loan!!

It feels so so good and I am so grateful for a husband who is so smart with money and who helped me get motivated to save up the money to pay this loan off. I know that it is important that we strive to be debt free! And I feel a huge weight lifted off my shoulders!

We are so blessed!

Thanks Babe!!

My New Favorite Thing Is..........

..........to sit on the floor at Walmart at 10:30 at night

and look at Cake and Cupcake books.

Why have I never done this before?

It is the perfect little mind get away and

I'm pretty sure I'll be back for round 2 soon.

2 Days Off

I've had the past 2 days off and what do I have to show for it?

1. 1 and a half loads of laundry done. ( I still have a load in the dryer that needs to be folded.)

2. Now I know what everyone else is doing with their lives because I've looked at everyone's blog.

3. Cheered on Roo at her cheer tryouts. (She made it if you were wondering.)

4. I won my appeal with Weber State and now I get $1,200 bucks refunded to me!

5. Mailed off my transcripts to a couple schools I've been looking at for Bachelors programs.

6. Washed my dishes.

7. More web surfing

Yep, I'm still trying to figure out where the heck the rest of my 48 hours off went.

But hey I enjoyed it!

Let Me Set This Strait

Today I over heard a nurse talking to another

lady about how dumb blogs are

because in her opinion,

all it is is made up fantasy.

"I have the best husband." "My kids are so cute!"

"We have the best life!",

are all sentences she blurted out in a sarcastic way.

I wish I would have had the guts to

say this to her face, but I didn't.

So I'm going to say it now.

What I love about blogging is that at the

end of the day when I sit down to blog,

I get to reflect on the positive aspects of my day.

And guess what lady, I like that.

Isn't that what were are supposed to do in life?

Reflect on the positive?

(Carter Musgrave is the best I know at focussing on the positive.)

It's not that anyone is trying to sound

like they live in a perfect world.

We just all like to share our happiness on our blogs.

If she'd join the blogging world, she'd understand.

Right guys? :)

I LOVE that I have the knowledge that I have of a higher being.

I KNOW he's up there and I know he knows me personally.

It brings me a lot of COMFORT.

Today I have been proven once again that MY prayers are heard.

Just another reminder that all he wants is for ME to be HAPPY!!

Only For Tonight

Tonight

I'm going to close my eyes when I face my hamper that's chuck full of dirty clothes that need to be washed.

I'm going to plug my nose when I walk pass the pile of garbage sitting by my side door that's waiting to be taken to my dad's dumpster.

I'm not going to call my husband and ask him not to leave the junk mail sitting on the kitchen table.

I'm going to take some deep breaths and sniff my essential oils I had mixed for anxiety.

I'm not going to try to figure out why my house is a disaster.

(even though I cleaned it yesterday)

But only Tonight.

Weber State Weber State

i HATE HATE HATE!!

(that's all)

What I've been up to lately

Blowing My Nose
Sucking on Cough Drops
Barfing
Watching Movies
Sipping Sprite
Coughing up Crap

Waking Up 27 Times A Night

Feeling Board & Miserable

Yep, That pretty much sums up my past 5 days.

It's Christmas!!!

I love Christmas time!

People helping people,

People thinking about other people,

Parties,

Good food,

Treats,

Hot Chocolate in the Cocoamotion,

Beanies and Mittens,

Snow

(You know it's not Christmas without snow, even you snow haters know this),

Gingerbread houses

(Graham cracker houses if your cheap like us),

Decorating sugar cookies,

Christmas cards,

Santa's in the malls,

Laying in the dark with just the tree lights on till you can't keep your eyes open anymore,

and last but not least

The capitalization on our Savior and his birth.

That's what it's all about. It's easy to get caught up in all the other holiday fun (I do this I know), but it's important that we remember what we are truly celebrating.

I am so grateful that Jesus Christ was born. I love him with all my heart!! I'm so happy we can have a whole season to remember him!!

Happy Holidays everyone, hope you enjoy this time of year as much as we do!!

Simple Things