"The second set of Ten Commandments"

One of my dad's customers sent this newspaper clipping to us and I loved it so much I thought I would post it on my blog. It was posted in the Utah Daily Herald and it's by Harvey Mackay. Obviously I am condensing the article a little bit, but if you would like a copy just let me know.


I. Thou shall not worry, for worry is the most unproductive of all human activities.

II. Thou shall not be fearful, for most of the things we fear never come to pass.

III. Thou shall not cross bridges before you come to them, for no one yet has succeeded in accomplishing this.

IV. Thou shall face each problem as it comes. You can only handle one at a time anyway. (In one of his favorite Peanut's cartoon strip Linus says to Charlie Brown "There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from." Thought this was too funny to leave out.)

V. Thou shall not take problems to bed with you, for they make very poor bedfellows.

VI. Thou shall not borrow other people's problems. They can better care for them than you can.

VII. Thou shall not try to relive yesterday. For good or ill, it is forever gone.

VIII. Thou shall be a good listener, for only when you listen do you hear ideas different from your own.

IX. Thou shall not become "bogged down" by frustration, for 90 percent of it is rooted in self-pity and will only interfere with positive action.

X. Thou shall count thy blessings, never overlooking the small ones, for a lot of small blessings add up to a big one.

A little forgetful!

For some reason I can't seem to remember to get all the pictures on one blog. That's ok though because it just saves some fun for later! There was one video that Kelvin took of our niece Samantha that we wanted to post for Dave and Paula. She was affectionately named Pebbles at on Sunday because of her adorable hair. So here you go......

Pranksters and Some Family Fun

Today was my cousin Brad's homecoming. After serving in the Fort Worth, Texas mission he came home just in time to spend 45 min with his little brother Mike in the MTC just before he flew out to Colombia to serve his mission. Brad looks like a Pratt, talks like a Pratt and no one can deny that he is definitely a Pratt! We went to the farewell and had an awesome time! I love my family SO much! They are so much fun. There was family there that I had not seen in a long time. We had a blast as you can tell from the pictures. Sorry there are a lot of them, but there are a lot of us and what you see here are only the handful that were able to come. But when we opened the door to leave this morning we found this.....




One of our friends taped newspaper in front of our door. I guess putting newspaper in front of an apartment door is the equivalent of toilet papering your house? Anyway it was funny, even though there was a thumb tack on one of the corners that we took out and I ended up stepping on it barefoot later in the day. I thought we had gotten rid of it and stepped out to say a quick hello to one of my friends without any shoes on and you can guess the rest!



When we got to our car it too was a victim!! They saran wrapped it! We laughed so hard! We don't know who did it yet but we will find out.


My cousin Jen, her husband Kennedy and their son Kaleen. And of course I am also in the picture!



My cousin Brian his wife Aubrey and their little girl Celeste.



This is Lindy! I used to do her hair when she was a little girl. She is all grown up and in college now.



Matt and Dad hanging out on the couch.



The trio!



Those in our immediate family that were able to make it.



These are the Pratt cousins who came. Believe me if you had us all lined up it would have to be a panoramic picture! We have tons of fun though.



My aunt and uncle Steve and Laurie with Jen (their daughter), Kennedy and Kaleen.



This is us with Brad. I think he was glad he didn't have to have another summer in Texas dressed like this.



My aunt and uncle Craig and Angela with Brad (their son) and Brad's girlfriend. She waited for him while he was gone and things have picked up right where they left off! She seems sweet and I am excited to get to know her better.



Pebbles......


and Bam Bam!!!



Someone is ready to go home! ;)

More Easter Pictures

I thought we had taken more pictures on Easter than the ones I found on the computer and then realized this morning that they were all still on the camera. So here are the missing pictures. Sorry!


Here is us with our candy. We also got two seasons of Everybody Loves Raymond for each other. They were so cheap at Walmart.



At Marta's house



This is Daisy with her ears flipped back.



The cute napkins Marta had for dinner.



Cute Miss Isha



Jordan



Daisy again with one of the bunnies we gave to Marta and Ed and the kids.

Easter Weekend

As you can probably tell, it has been a little while since our last update. My parents took my little brother Matt to Disneyland so I have been running the family business all week with my brother Dave. Since I have to drive to Provo everyday and then back, it's been a long week and I am SO greatful for the weekend. I think I listened to the Twilight soundtrack about 10 times at work (it's really good.....Thanks Krystal!!!)

We had a great Easter Sunday. After a wonderful day at church, we had dinner with Marta and Ed and the kids. I guess I should add Daisy in there (the dog) since she likes Kelvin so much. Whenever we go over she gets all excited and practically follows him around wanting him to play with her. He doesn't admit it very often but he really likes her too. He is definitely a dog person but usually likes the medium to big dogs. He is not a fan of the small ones (thinks they are too yappy) but she has gotten into his heart, it's so sweet. The only other small dog I can think of that he likes is Lucy my brother and sisters dog. The dinner was wonderful and then Felicia and I colored eggs and watched "America's Funniest Home Videos" while Kelvin and Jordan played computer games. I must say though that we got spoiled! One of our friends played the Easter bunny this year and dropped off a bunch of stuff. It was quite the Easter basket. Marta and Ed gave us Easter candy and my parents gave us a bunch of Emergency Preparedness supplies. It was quite the holiday. Lots of fun and candy (anyone want some????) and an all around great day. My parents have been doing Emergency Preparedness stuff for a while now with every Holiday since we have gotten older. On Christmas we got a dutch oven! It was so awesome. If you didn't know already, they are VERY into food storage and being prepared. I have learned a lot from them and still have a lot more to learn. When Kelvin and I moved into our first place, I had more food storage that I had stored under my bed than anything else. He was a little shocked, but I believe in being ready for anything and guess what.....It came in handy this year. We have mostly depleted everything I had stocked up! Anyway, off my little tangent and on to some pictures!


This is what our friend gave us! It does not include what we got from Ed and Marta and my parents.



We looked at the Nutrition Section on the big chocolate bunnies just for fun and were shocked by the fat content.



Our friend Aaron gave these shirts to us and Kelvin was VERY proud to wear his. Mine is way too big but I like to wear it around the house. There were a few of them left at his work apparently, and he brought us about 4 shirts.



A random picture that Kelvin took while I was getting ready one day.



And the finale.....A picture of the cutest couple in the world! OK...... so I might be a little biased. And I don't even like this picture of us very much.

Boys, Boys, Boys!!!

My parents went on a much needed getaway this weekend to Salt Lake and so Matt naturally came to stay at our apartment. He decided that he needed to bring a friend along and so he brought Kevin with him. I had an apartment full of Boys!! They were with us from Friday afternoon to Sunday late morning. I must say, these boys were so well behaved! They were polite and considerate and basically entertained themselves. We borrowed the Wii game system from Kelvin's cousin and so they had a good time playing games and watching movies. Kelvin worked Friday night and Saturday night and I was SO tired this weekend that I went in my bedroom and read and let them have rein of the living room and kitchen. They just played quietly and took care of themselves. It was great!! Saturday we went to see the movie "Race to Witch Mountain" with them. I had never seen the original before so had nothing really to compare it to but I really enjoyed it. The funny thing I find about movies these days is that they always try to throw something in about global warming. And this movie did just that! It was still good and worth our time though. It was such nice weather all weekend until Sunday morning hit and then it was a blizzard!

This was an hour or so after the blizzard and it is still snowing!







It's almost April and we are having another snow storm??? But we do live in Utah and you know what they say about the weather here.......If you don't like it, just wait a little while and it will change. It's been snowing for hours now and there is a good few inches of snow on the ground. Hopefully it will clear up in a while so it will all melt soon. We are very ready for spring. The birds don't appreciate the snow much either. They are chirping away and seem very upset by the cold.

Spring Break Weekend

Last weekend we went to Bryce Canyon for the end of Spring Break with two of our good friends. We had a blast! None of us had ever been to Bryce Canyon before so we thought this would be a great adventure. Although I have been to Zions National Park many times before, this park was different. They are only about 40-50 miles apart from each other and so I thought that they would have similar features. To my surprise and delight, they were a lot different. We took lots of pictures but like everyone knows, a picture never does justice to the real thing. We set up camp at a KOA that was about 15 min away from the park and because it was still early in the season for campers, we were able to pick our spot. We choose a nice secluded area that was away from everything. We had a beautiful mountain for our scenery and there was nothing else around. It was very peaceful. We went on a couple of small hikes but they turned into adventures as we are "off-roaders" and don't stay on the trail when it is safe to explore elsewhere. The first hike we did this and ended up climbing up the side of the mountain and into some arches for a good photo shoot. The sunscreen was unfortunately forgotten and as consequence would have it, I got fried!! But we meandered along and took our time with everything and just enjoyed being away from the stresses of life. It was a great weekend.

This is Haley and I. She and her husband live above us and love camping almost as much as we do. They jumped at the chance to go to Bryce Canyon. We've become great friends.




This is just some of the gorgeous scenery we saw.



These are some arches we found that we climbed up to. We went up the side of the mountain and let me tell you, it was STEEP! I think I was on my hands and knees all the way up.



The boys made the hike first and we took pictures.



This is the girls when we made it up.



Our Campsite with the awesome background.



I love this picture. It's just sweet.



On a hike along the rim.



This was a game we bought at one of the little grocery stores. It was a lot of fun but it was just some cheap PCV pipe thrown together that ended up breaking after a few games. Good thing is that it's easy to fix!



This rock is called Thor's hammer. This one's for you Roger!



We made a hike to a "Waterfall" and this is what we found. We followed another trail for 30 min thinking we hadn't come to the waterfall yet only to realize that this was the waterfall they were talking about.



The Mossy Caves