December 2009

Of course we had to take pictures the day before it snowed this year. I love them, even though they are snow-less. It was freezing cold if that makes any difference! We just love our little family of us and the dogs, it's so wonderful.

The Richest Man in Babylon

I've had this book sitting around for almost a year now. I've been told fequently about what a good book it is, and now that I've read it, I can agree. It is a book about achieving financial success by teaching effective and proper money handling techniques. Quite a good read. There are valuable lessons to be learned from this book, especially after you implement them into your life. Many of which we alredy have, and I am incredibly grateful for. It also has an incredibly unique series of stories and a very interesting history behind it! It was the richest nation to grace it's time before it was finally conquered and left to the elements, which buried it with sand and caused it to disintegrate, nearly 8000 years ago.

The Blind Side

I went and saw The Blind Side with Trish last night. I hadn't seen previews or anything, so I didn't really have any expectations. Can I just say....What a good movie! I loved it. It was funny and heart warming, I just loved it! If you're looking for a good show, I so recommend you see this one!

http://www.theblindsidemovie.com/

Scrub A Dub-Dub

So right before we went to pick up Bailey, Justin decided to give Liddy a bath before she met her new friend. I was trying to get ready for work while he was bathing her and It was just so cute, I had to take some pictures. She's such a big dog, that it's kinda hard, and her fur makes it impossible, since it's like...water resistant. Water just runs right off of it instead of sticking...But she's so calm she tries to cooperate even though she doesnt' exactly love it. I had to share some pictures of my baby girl!

Todays adventures....

So I have some news to share :D and no I'm not pregnant :D haha I'm actually pretty excited about this news though, oddly enough. So I have been working at Pink since June right, and recently began filling in part time at the Marriott for Trish, and in spite of the long hours, I believe I've been holding together quite well. Justin has been an incredible help and I couldn't appreciate it more, but last night, Brooklyn and Zeke come down and told me that since things were so slow, they needed to lay me off.

It's sad news to me, because I hate to see the ecomony taking such a toll on these good people. I'm relieved that we don't depend on my income, especailly with the new house, so that didn't really put us in a bind at all, plus since I've been working at the Marriott, I can just pick up hours there, if I want to, to fill the time, learn more, and gain more experience! I am also fairly excited to catch back up with the vinyl business. I've never been able to fully devote my time and efforts to it, since I've been working ever since we got it, but now I hope things will slow down and I can catch up with it. I have a lot of ideas I want to get started on and am also excited to use some creativity in my Christmas presents, now that I have the time.

So, if anyone is needing to order Vinyl, let me know. I now have the time :D I'm quite excited.

Justing took Bailey to the vet on Tuesday for a checkup. We wanted to be sure everything had healed up well from her being Spaid, and we had a sneaking suspicion she had an infection. We were right. They found a very small UTI, so they put her on medication and we are trying to beat it out before it gets worse. When we initially brought her home with us on November 14, we weighed her and she weighed 28 pounds.

{The ride Home, she loved being in our laps}

At the vet on Tuesday she weighed 33 pounds.

She's growing like a weed! Her and Liddy are so cute together now too! We just love how good of friends they are. They take such good care of eachother :D

{ Not!! A good picture of me, but I had to give proof of how spoiled they are :D}

I also had to share some pictures of what Christmas is like at the Pratt house. We're very excited for Christmas this year, and now I'm even more excited because I'll have more time to spend with family and friends and enjoy this season more fully!

Now this has nothing to do with Christmas. I was just excited because I've had this pot forever now and couldn't ever find exactly what foliage I wanted for it and at Tai Pan in St.George, I scored and found these, which I love. So they get to join the Christmas decorations.

Not a good picture of the tree. It's prettier when it's lit up, but we love it.

Our Girls!

Cute wall hangings

The Awesome Fish bowl from our wedding has been repurposed

The new washer and dryer

The new TV!!!

My Shield

Last night, Justin and I had the opportunity to go to the temple and do some Initatories. I have to tell you that after a long day of so much hurrying and thinking and trying to be professional, there is no better place to go to be calm, and comforted. I had to wait for a few minutes after the Initatory, and I can't describe how grateful I am for the feeling of closeness to the Lord the temple provides. The magnitude of the knowledge that there is no other place on earth that you can be closer to god is outstanding. It was a reminder that the lord loves us, takes care of us, watches out for us, wants us to be happy and blesses us. He appreciates the time we take to do the work , and in return for that work, we are blessed even more.

After we went home and ate dinner, we read a couple chapters in the Book Of Mormon (we have been trying to get through it for 2 years now) and had such a great time discussing the things we had read and learned. Discussing faith, and trust in the lord. I am so grateful for the knowledge I have of the true gospel of Jesus Christ and for the trust I have in the lord. There is no greater power than to act in the lords ways and to follow his teachings and spiritual promptings.

It was a wonderful reminder of what this life is all about.

My Life at the Moment

Life has been so great and relaxing lately, I just have to take a moment to ponder and be thankful for everything.

1. We are loving the house, making more and more progress with it all the time {i.e. last night we worked on wiring the outside plugs in the dog kennel for their heated water dish, and we bought new washer and dryer *SO NICE*}
2. Bailey and Liddy have been quite the nerds lately. They're so cute and sweet and Bailey is minding better everyday. They have started to get bored in our yard though. They get curious and wander, and I don't want them to get run over, so we're struggling with that part.
   
3. I'm loving working mornings for Trish while she's out of town and that I've had this nice break over Thanksgiving. It's more compliant with my preferred sleep schedule, lol.


4. On Thanksgiving when I was playing with Natty, I just took a minute to actually LOOK at her, and I can't believe how much she has grown. She can actually focus on your face and smile and she is even starting to babble now. It's so cute.


5. I'm very grateful that all my family is back in town, happy and healthy. I sleep better knowing they are home. Now I just wish I could find my dad a better job so he didn't have to be out in the cold sometimes. I hate that :(


6. Justin and I have been having so much fun doing our Christmas shopping. We're both almost finished already and it's been great.


7. So looking forward to going to Salt Lake with JT for 4 days. We're going to do some shopping, go see the lights on temple square and hit a Jazz game. It will be great to spend some time together.


8. I got all the Christmas decorations put up and the house cleaned really well and all the decorations put away in the basement. {Now I just need to clean and organize the basement, haha)


9. I better knock on wood before I say this one, but tomorrow is December 1st and we still have been having great great weather! No snow, lots of sunshine. Not even fog. A little frost..but that's it. SO nice!

I'm sure there is plenty more, but those are the most prevalent on my mind for now. We are so blessed!