Teresa Brandi Pratt

  A few weeks ago my grandma passed away after living the long life of 98 (so close to 99) years old, and even though we all knew it was going to happen someday, it actually took us all by surprise. She was always so healthy, rarely ever sick, even up to the day before going into the hospital she was dancing like she was 40 yrs old. So we all kinda figured she was gonna live forever. Or at least until 100 because she always said she was gonna stick around to be 100 so she could have the big party and then she'd be fine if heavenly father took her the very next day haha. Well I guess she was just too eager too see her eternal companion again because she was called back up 2 years shy of her dream party. However I know she was dancing around heaven as soon as she passed :)
   When I got the call that she had had a seizure and was in the hospital Nick and I went straight over. Seeing her there, in a hospital bed, not talking, or telling stories, or drinking her beloved ma'te, she just didn't look like my grandma. I couldn't wrap my head around the fact that i would most likely be loosing my grandma in the foreseeable future and it just broke my heart. Well if you were to have met my grandma you would know that she was a very confidant woman, and she made sure everybody knew she was. Even there in the hospital, not having talked much in the last 24ish hours, my sister was talking to my grandma, who we thought was asleep, and just simply said that she looked beautiful, and my grandma grabs her hand pulls her toward her and says, while nodding her head, "I know I'm beautiful". Now if that story doesn't sum up my grandmas personality i don't know what does haha She was always so happy and eager to tell stories and to dance whenever she got the chance. She is the reason i learned to love dance in the first place. And after blessings and prayers that she would not have to suffer long and be able to be called home to be with her Heavenly Father and eternal companion and everyone she had ever known really, she passed peacefully in her sleep. While sad, I had this calming peace come over me assuring me she was in a better place and loving every minute of it :) She will always be my grandma and i will never forget her and the passion she had for everything in her life. She is my role model and exactly what i wanna be when i grow up. I love her so much and will miss seeing her beautiful face, but i know that she will always be with me, probably scolding me from the other side haha, and watching over me until i am able to see her again.

Just the three of us.

So I've decided to start a blog so that i can keep track of this whirlwind we call life. I've always loved to write ever since i was little, i just found it fun. Now don't confuse that with "I'm really good at writing" I never said that, cause that would be a lie haha I never understood correct punctuations or some correct grammar i always just wrote what popped into my mind! But nevertheless i thoroughly enjoy it. Every time i start one of these things I'm really good for like a month tops and then forget it even exists! I'm hoping this time will be different because i really want to remember as much as i can about this part of my life cause I'll never be able to relive it. My husband and i have been married a year and man oh man what a year it has been! The first month was fantastic, both of us working good jobs, coming home and just being together, it was the dream! Then a little over a month of marriage *BOOM* pregnant. Now at the time we were living in a 300 sq ft apartment off the side of my sisters house, we were making barely enough money to live off of at the moment, and we were really hoping to wait at least a year before kids, but God had a different plan for us apparently. So with pregnancy come hormones and irrational fights, {one of which was our biggest, yet funniest fights we have ever had} so living in such a small space, being so close to each other, I always had to remind myself that I really didn't want to strangle him in his sleep... that was just the hormones talking... sometimes haha. But we made it through all 9 months of that craziness without killing each other! Any who, A couple of months after we found out i was pregnant Nick got a new job that paid infinitely more than he was making at best buy, and i was working at a doctors office, this eased the stress a ton and allowed us to be able to save up enough money to buy our first home! House hunting was really fun, getting to look at all different houses and deciding together things you like best in a house and what not, BUT actually going through the process of buying the house is probably what it feels like to go through hell.... so much paperwork...so many signatures....so much money haha but all completely worth it, because now we are in our own home with our cute little boy and loving every minute of it! If someone would have told me a year ago that i would go through allll of that this past year i would've told them they were crazy, but we got through it and now i can't imagine my life any other way. Just the three of us.