been awhile...

dear...
its been awhile. i have been so busy that i just have not even had time to even think about updating my blog. i usually just get stuck on facebook for forever. so there's been volleyball and i was just finished up our church annual christmas cantata choir. it was so much fun to be apart of. and as for volleyball, it was really good too, i am so sad that it is over though because it was my last season. but now that it is all over. i just have work. i'm a cashier at safeway for those who did not know. after having five weeks off, it was good to go back to work yesturday and with a raise made it even better!!! now it is the christmas season and i am absolutely loving it. its coming so fast and i still have some shopping to do. but i will get it done on time like always you have to make time for those kinds of things. i am very excited for Christmas break to come...a break off school is sometimes needed. although, i must say i am enjoying my last year in high school. i currently taking bible 12, english 12, yearbook, and info tech...i just finished accounting 11 by correspondence. i have no clue what i am going to do after high school. there are a lot of things that i want to do. but its not always about what i want to do. god has a plan and a purpose for me. sometimes i wish i could just go to the future and see what i'm doing and just get there. but unfortunatly, that's impossible...
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!!! and i love you all so much...
(L) brooke

moments

sitting here pondering, what am i going to write about. i look around me at all the amazing little things. there's birds chirping. a gentle breeze to keep the heat from us. the sunshine on my back. somehow, i've waited for this for a long time. to be able to sit outside and just write. i know it sounds crazy. but everyone has there thing that they love to do ...and this just happens to be mine. now only if i had the ocean infront of me. the waves crashing against the beach and water stretching on for miles ...till you can see it anymore. maybe one day. but for now my deck and hudson bay mountain is fine.
last week, my sister amanda, wrote in her blog about the moments that we capture throughout life. sometimes i wonder, when i'm doing something that means so much to me... am i going to remember this moment?? is it going to be one of those memories? what about the things i don't want to remember but they're stuck in my head --most of the time called regrets. i always wanted to live life with no regrets, and no mistakes. but are the things in high school that i am doing now, going to affect my judgement later in life? so many questions that are left unanswered, until we can figure out the answers with what the future holds. so many childhood memories, that i don't want to forget.
imagine this. one day your driving home from a long day at work, and its night time. and a drunk driver runs a red light and hits your car, hard enough to give you a concusion and you permanelty lose all of those memerories and the moments that you had captured in your mind--gone and erased forever. what would you do?? would you make people help you remember? it would drive me crazy to not remember. but then you would have a chance to start over. if you had regrets you wouldn't remember them. if you had enemies, you wouldn't know who they are. i guess they say, to look at the glass half full instead of half empty.
it is so important to remember the things that mean so much to us --memeories and moments. i'm only sixteen, so i'm pretty sure i'm gonna have a lot more to come. pretty soon though my brain might just go on overload of memories. sometimes we may have to buy things, make things, or do things to help us remember those memories and those moments. there's this song by emerson drive called moments. its one of those songs that when listened by others, it makes their hard heart soften. "I've had my moments, days in the sun. Moments I was second to none. Moments when I knew I did what I thought I couldn't do" My moments ...made memories.
well the sun has now gone down and the sky is a pale blue but by the mountains there is a pink array of beauty with a touch of yellow. and the misquitoes have came out and they like to eat you alive. so i'll stay indoors and watch from inside staying warm. the beauty's this life brings... enjoy the summer.

my thoughts

It seems as though today, people are constantly judging others—whether its celebrities or just everyday average Joe’s trying to “live life to the fullest.” Now, I know we are all not perfect in anyway, shape, or form. But just try for a day, an hour, (and if worse comes to worse), a minute and try to see someone for who they really are, without judging them. I am not saying that I am perfect either—trust me I have gossiped and spread rumours about others in my time.
A recent “intense” conversation with an anonymous friend got me thinking about all of this. So many times we just others without knowing the whole story or in another case, not knowing the person at all. In today’s world, judgement has become such a thing that we do it all the time—sometimes we often do not even realize what we have said until it just so happen comes out later. The sad thing about this is that we start to judge the ones that are so close and dear to our hearts without realizing it; also pushing them away from us. Then there’s those anonymous people; what about them? What about those people that know that they are constantly been judged and gossiped about? What ever happens to them?
Judgement and gossip are a lot alike but if you look at it in a different way judgement than leads to gossip (and gossip, half the time not even being true). Based on someone else’s opinion that was shared with another—word seems to get around in a small town. Gossip almost makes me sick to my stomach. I’m sure everyone has thought about this next point sometime or another. But let’s say we have person A and you. Person A starts talking about one of your good friends, in ways that you don’t want to hear about. Don’t you ever start to wonder what people say about you behind your back? It’s a constant fear that we all have—people or friends doing or saying things behind our backs. Sometimes I wish they would just say it to my face, but would that hurt more than them saying it behind my back. Them saying it behind my back, there is a good chance that I will not find out. All of us need some kind of affirmation from others. How are we supposed to get this affirmation knowing that things are being said about us behind our backs…them gossiping about us?
Judgement is a very big and broad topic to be writing about and there is so much to be said. I can’t believe how rumours can be spread from one person to another in just one moment. I know this is going to sound brutal, and not so subtle. But if I was to die tomorrow, I would only regret very few things. And one of those things would have to be; judging others, gossiping about others, and spreading rumours about each other. I am so afraid of people judging me—but that does not give me the benefit to judge them right back. I feel so horrible sometimes on what I have said about others.
All of this “intense” conversation came out this? In my situation, it was my extended family, and still is today. There are a lot of us; so it is very difficult for us to actually be friends and know each other on a personal basis. I don’t know. I’m just so afraid of them judging me for who I really am that I am scared to tell them what I am thinking at that very moment. I am scared of them; they are supposed to be my family. It sounds horrible, I know. But because I don’t know you; I’m not going to tell you when I’m mad, tell you when I’m sad, tell you when I need something from you. Most of you, probably have seen the “real” me. And our hope is that as we get older, maybe we can put our differences aside for just one instance and be ourselves which each other for just one moment. Share life’s memories together. Thank you my anonymous friend!

in pursuit of...

Every year in the United States of America, there is 18.8 million people that suffer from some kind of depressive illness each year – that is a staggering amount of people for the approximant three hundred million people living there. In the book, Peace Shall Destroy Many, Thom Wiens is searching for peace in his life – contrasting with the movie, the Pursuit of Happyness, where Christopher Gardner is searching for happiness in his life. Today we are all searching for something to fill a void in our life – just like Christopher and Thom.
Thom found peace in not questioning the roots of Wapiti because whenever he did, it brought him trouble and his anger raged. The community of Wapiti thought that peace was found in keeping the traditions of their past and not changing the future because if you change the traditions you will end up with people questioning the faith and the roots of what they believed. “He was at that point again: he had been told the truth. The church—the Deacon—they know. Believe; questions were often simplest if not answered” (18). The church did not want the people of Wapiti to question the faith, in anyway. So instead, they tried to cover it up by keeping a strict and secluded life. Thom did not think as the community did and he began to think about the traditions of the church and why the church had them in place. The example of Low German being spoken in the churches was so that no one else could attend like the Métis, or was it just a simple tradition that could be changed? Thom and Pastor Lepp have a conversation about the principles of their beliefs. Thom states, “The first step is obedience to the fundamental teachings of Christ. The second, putting these teaching into practice…Then how, for example, are we acting particularly as Christ’s disciples by using only German in our services” (87). At the end of the book, Thom simply stopped questing and just did, making his life easier.
Christopher found happiness from the little things in life, the things that we often take for granted, he had the mentality that if you want something you had to go get it and no matter how hard you tried in the end you will get what you want if you wanted it bad enough. To his son he said, “You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can’t do it. You want something? Go get it Period.” Christopher lived his life this way always, he wanted a job, to provide for his family and make his son feel like he had everything in the world. But Christopher’s son needed to trust him in order for him to find his place of happiness. ”Christopher: You gotta trust me, all right? Christopher Jr.: I trust you. Christopher: ‘cause I’m getting a better job”. This is where Christopher found his happiness – through his son and through his job, and living his dreams, so that he could properly provide for his son because part of him having happiness was making sure that his son was also happy. Christopher did not care what other people thought of him – he was too focused on pursuing something that he needed to get through life. Intern; “hey, you’re missing a shoe!” Christopher: “Oh, hey, thanks.” Christopher did not care that he was missing a shoe because his shoe was not going to stop him from getting the job that would make him happy.
Both Thom and Christopher found their peace and happiness from not making the same mistakes they did in the past and living for the future. In Thom’s case, it was his anger – wherever his anger came up in the book, he was not at peace. A good example of this would be near the beginning of the book where they are playing at the baseball game and many thoughts go through Thom’s head. “It burst in Thom like an explosion: he made no futile gesture for first. All he knew was his flaming mind and his yelling “interference! Interference! He hit my bat with his glove, the—“. Thom kept his anger inside of him most of the time, but it is something that he would struggle with for the rest of his life and almost keep him from his place of peace. Christopher’s struggle was to not make the same mistake that his father did – he, unlike his father, wanted to be there for his son every step of the way and be the best thing a father could ask for. “I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children where going to know who their father was.” They found that one thing that was their weakness and made it stronger; so no mistakes to ruin their pursuit. Christopher and Thom had two very different lives but when it comes down to it all, the basis of their lives are the same. They were both in pursuit of something that may just be a state of being and something that may not actually exist as a thing. In the Bible, Job states, “Remember, O God, that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see happiness again” (7:7). Job knows that in order to life live, a person has to have happiness, he has lost everything but still has trust in God, that is were he finds his place of happiness.
What are we looking for? Where is our place where we find peace and happiness? In today’s society, everyone has a “void in their life” – many people fill it with drugs, sex, or alcohol – but in the end that just brings you now where and you are still left with some hole in your heart. As Christians, we know that we find happiness and peace through Christ Jesus and knowing that he will be there for us, in times of sorrow, grief, and pain. “To the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God.” (Ecclesiastes 2:26) Because we have hope through Jesus, we do not have to have a void – we know that there is something beyond this sinful earth – and that is our hope for living.
“It was right then that I stated thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?” (Christopher Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness). There are stages of our lives where we do not have happiness where we are in pursuit of it, but once we find it, we got it – then we are in the happiness stage. The part of Christopher’s life was the pursuit part and at the end of the movie he had found everything he needed –complete and udder happiness.
In Peace Shall Destroy Many, it is against the Mennonite religion to fight in wars because they want to bring peace by isolation. “According to Christ’s teachings, peace is not a circumstance but a state of being. The Christ follower has the peace of reconciliation with God and therefore the peace of conscious fellowship with God through God in Christ” Thom’s brother who was in the war, found peace over in Europe fighting, stating just a Christopher did that peace/happiness was not a circumstance but yet still a state of being. How we supposed to find these things just as Christopher and Thom’s brother did? It seems as if people with nothing, seem to find happiness and peace in the things they do have – its like they have everything they need and need no more – because they are the people who have found their place of hope, happiness, and of peace. In the western world, we need to find happiness from somewhere else because we take for granted everything that places like those that would not take our everyday things for granted. Therefore, we go searching for love, happiness, hope, and peace in all the wrong places. There is one true hope, one true love, one true happiness, one true peace, and there is only one God –Jesus Christ.

the pursuit of happyness

"It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?"

"You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period. "

"The important thing about that freedom train, is it's got to climb mountains. We ALL have to climb mountains, you know. Mountains that go way up high, and mountains that go deep and low"

"This part of my life... this part right here? This is called "happyness." "

the time is now...

new post time apparently... my sister amanda told me it was time i updated my blog and told the world about my life. well there's not much too say so this may become short and maybe sweet.

soccer season has now started and it is so much fun ...although i am very sore today and can barely walk, i guess that's what you get when you do absolutely no physical activity for a long time then try go hard core in a matter of hours. then 24 hours after playing soccer figuring your body can take going for a run ...flip what was i thinking?? somebody please tell me.

well yesturday at about four o'clock some transformer in hazelton fell down or something and all of the north from hazelton to houston lost power for 24 hours, it was brutal having nothing to do. no tv, no msn, no going to town because nothings open, not even school today... that was the one amazing thing about the power going out. but the rest was a real eye opener of what we have to do without our main resource of power!

i don't know what else is new, i've been going to school, hang out with friends, going to work, drinking lots of mocha's ...i really can't tell you what else is new because seriously that's pretty much it. i do have a busy life but i don't excactly know what it gets so busy from, i guess just a combo of all that stuff makes it busy. i got "places to go and people to see"

i am starting to think that summer is coming but last time when i said that spring was coming two days later it snowed... so i hope i don't jynx it again this time. but we finally have leaves on the trees, bugs flying around (down fall of summer time), people walking everywhere, soaking up the sun, wearing shades... you know.

i feel like i am boring you all with my life story, but i guess a sisters got to do what a sisters got to do, anything for you manda.

dreams

dreaming of a place

i dream of a place
a place far away
with sun sand and sea
just so far away.
i dream of an island
i dream im lost at sea
i just dream about anything
thats not here u see.
i dream im in space
i dream im flying high
i dream so i dont have to ask why.
i dream to escape
the harsh reality of life
the cold world
that surrounds my life
but i dream to keep going
it keeps me safe
just to know that my dreams
is the only place where im completly safe
-laurajayne Kennedy

dreams ...dreams ...dreams we all have them, we all want them to come true. sometimes i wonder what are the chances of everyones dream coming true. yes i have my dreams... but will they happen. sometimes doubts overcome dreams ...its the dreams that have to keep going and the doubt that has to stop.

untitled

sorry guys its been a while. it seems as if i've either been busy or i have absolutely nothing to write about... well i guess it could be the part where i have nothing to write about ...so this could be one of the times when i just randomly tell you about my life.

well you know how they say that your teenage years are the best years of your life, so enjoy them while you can kind of thing. well right now in my teenage years i can't say that i'm not enjoying them but i can say that those days with no worries no temptations when all you had to think about was what you were going to wear the next day, or trying to figure out what 2 x 5 is. life seemed so easy so chilled back then; the only thing you could do wrong was fight with your brother or sister and then get in trouble for it from your parents --how come in life it always seems horrible when your actually there but when you look back and think about the past it seems so perfect, seems like why should you have complained back then about life, you should be complaining now. sometimes i ask myself- am i going to look back on these high school years and think possitively about them. don't worry kate ...i know you always tell me, you'll miss high school once you get out, but right now i don't think i'd be missing much.

ps...i love you ineke and the haters are suweet...i must say :P

spring break

spring break is finally here, the longed for two weeks that we all wish for two days after christmas break ends. i must say its a beautiful time to get away from school, school activities, and everything that has to do with the word school. although, this spring break seems to be overrated. the past few days i haven't done anything but mope around home trying to find something to do. seems as if everyone has left, or still here and busy with work, or boyfriends. i guess i could say i'm starting to learn to enjoy the company of my parents. but otherwise, i think this is the first time in a few years that my family is not planning to go anywhere. (let's see how good brooke is at persuading, by friday) i decided that on this spring break i am finally going to learn how to snowboard but otherwise i'm going to have to find something to do. so if anyone has got any good ideas just let me now...and i might just take you up on your offer.

brooke's drivin'

brooke is offically on the road... scary thought eh. i got my L in october, but didn't get the chance to use it because of the long winter, so just recently my dad and i started brooke's driving leasons. the first few times were kinda sketchy in not having a clue about vechile's -but lately dad is gone to kelowna so mom has let me drive. its pretty awesome. but she is a little aprehensive about letting my drive her very own prize posestion ...her four runner. manda and blake are totally jealous cause they didn't get to drive it this summer, or at all! i guess i'm just a privelidged child.! anyways there's my short little driving story for ya.

spring

spring brings on so many extraordinary things- bugs, leaves on trees, sunshine that last all day, flowers bloom, wind, rain, thunder and lightening storms, and just plain & natural beauty.

here in smithers, everything is beautiful all year round. but a six to eight month winter gets a little long. so when spring comes, its everybodys joy and love to watch all the snow melt, the grass start to grow and the flower's to bloom.

i love the sunsets in spring time...they seem to remind me of God's beauty and guarantee that the sun will come back up in the morning. it will bring that same extraordinary sunrise and 12 hours later giving an extraordinary sunset.

i also love watching butterflies fluttering around everywhere- stopping then going, going then stopping. They are the example of a beautiful life. wouldn't you just love to be a butterfly, doing what ever you wanted for the duration of the day- flying thru the sun rays, bouncing from shadow to shadow.

spring brings on such amazing things and i think somedays we take for granted everyday when spring starts to come. maybe the snow looks a little muddy-but that's just the process of getting rid of it all... so rain or shine, thank God for what a beautiful place he gave to you! have a good one everyone.

...day seventeen

well i thought i just do one regular day of blogging just to make me happy! ...today, at school wasn't a good day...i don't know why but it just was absolutely horrible! but when i got home i was perfect...talked on msn for a while. i just cannot stand school right now...its driving me crazy.. every course is driving me crazy... everyone is driving me crazy--actually just a few of you... but that's ok ...i'll get over myself and be fine tomorrow... when i work... from four to eight and it will seem like forever! ...i can't wait for spring break lets just say that for now...
well everyone else have a wonderful night and talk to you all's later...

pictures of amanda...

AMANDA RAE ...

and today my love would have to be my absolutely gorgeous, radiant, awesome, beautiful, amazing, smart, lovable.... AMANDA (AKA my pink m&m)

Amanda is my sister if you haven't all ready figured that out! She is nineteen years old and currently in india on a mission's trip. Me and my sister have had so many ups and downs, and turns around corners, but it always ends up leading us to the cold are truth - we are sisters, we better start dealing with our problems ...before we try to deal with each others... and last of all, to get over ourselves sometimes! ...i think the fact that manda is away has made our relationship just go that extra mile. Amanda has around ninety days until she comes home ...and when she comes home me and her are going to have so much fun... and in september we are going to see keith urban ...LIVE in concert.

A little more about manda:

amanda is a kind, lovable, caring person--that pretty much anyone would get along with. she's kind of the redneck in our family - she dreams of having a chevy truck with her two dogs in the back... Chester (from the movie the kid) ...and bosephus (from keg in the closet by kenny chesney, this is currently her cars name until she accomplishes the dog part)--Crazy girl. Manda, like me, is a hardcore country loving fan... her favorites would include tim mcgraw, aaron prichett, and rascal flatts ... and i'm sure there's a few more. Me and manda also have a song its called don't forget to remember me- by carrie underwood. --it all started with my random emails to her across that ocean...and into india ...at the bottom of each email i always told her... don't forget to remember me... and on the phone one day me and her just randomly decided...collectively... that this was going to be a song. we also have a day... it is may 21, also known as victoria day. but manda took a journal with her to india and my mom told us each to write manda something in the journal on a certain day ... so may 21 was the day ...and it is formally now brooke and amanda sister day... Manda and i love our little quirks that we have together ...there are so many and i won't bore you with to many more i hope. but there's one more that would have to be my favorite. this one started a few years ago, when the movie what a girl wants with amanda bynes came out... in the movie there is a line ...where she says "i love you a million red m&m's" well me and manda took that line and have been using it ever since. this is also where manda's nickname pink m&m came from... mine just happens to be snoocums... i couldn't ask for a better sister to look up to ...and try be like... sometimes i just thank God for her, and thank God that she's doing such wonderful things with her life.

--manda if you ever get the time to read the over there in india ..i hope you thoroughly enjoy it (i meant every word) ...i love you a million red m&m's

ps ...don't forget to remember me

Happy St. Patrick's Day Everyone.

...hope you have a wonderful day filled will laughter and just plain fun...

think irish.

brooke

my love today...quotes

there are so many things in life that may discourage us, make us wonder why we are here, make us ask ourselves what wrong with me...why am i not popular like her, why am i not beautiful like her ect.

well i like quotes to express how we are feeling at that moment when people can't see you--like putting them on your blog or msn. people can't see what your facial expressions are so you express yourself in a different way... i have spent hours just looking at quotes online from important people in history --winston churchill, einstein, and i'm sure there are many more that just aren't coming to my mind at the moment.

i also like non-serious quotes...the ones that mean absolutely nothing but are just plain funny and make you laugh...or have an inside joke behind them. kind of like movie quotes out of totally wierd movies... like in top gun (not saying that top gun is a wierd movie...but) when the tom cruise and his partner always say, "great balls of fire" ...kinda like that. oh in chic flics...really lame quotes. like in cinderella story- "Austin: You need a wax. Sam: Excuse me? Austin: [laughs] I meant the car." ...those ones just make me laugh all the time. Me and my sister amanda also have this odd thing of quoting napoleaon dinomite even though it is getting so old --its on my ipod and ever one comes on it just makes me laugh and think of amanda.

i'll list some of my favorite quotes just for ya:
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. -winston churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. -winston churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. -winston churchill
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. -winston churchill
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. -winston churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going. -winston churchill
Never, never, never give up. -winston churchill

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be. -albert einstein
Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. -albert einstein
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -albert einstein
God always takes the simplest way. -albert einstein

Live your life. -american eagle
Live like you were dying. -tim mcgraw
Life ain't always beautiful. -gary allen
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get. -forest gump

i also love song lyrics that have an actual background in them and have a story like to them... it drives me crazy when some people have such a beautiful voice and they waste it away on lame, sappy music...i don't see how they can do that... sometimes i just think that they don't realize it...they are just there for the money. well as you probably already noticed is that my favorite kind of music is country. all of my sixteen years, music has been my main inspiration...i listen to it day and night. when i'm sad, happy, lonely, or just need something to chill with its always got to be music.

keith urban.... my love

so instead of boring you with my daily life ...i thought that i would start to show you some of my favorite things or aspects of my life... today its keith, keith urban that is.

for as long as i can remember i have been a true country fan--i guess it just runs in that true bruhjell/holenstein blood that i got running thru me. throughout my life, keith just seemed to stand out! ...i'm not saying that i liked another artist for sometime...but everything always led me back to the one the only 5'5, new zealand born and raised, keith urban--and no its not just cause he's good looking...although i must say he is pretty darn... he's got some good aweosme country tunes rolling on his side, and boy can he ever sing. my all time favorite song by keith would have to be either, making memories or you'll think of me or stupid boy...i just can't seem to make up my mind on that one.

it has always been my dream to see keith in concert, and this september my dream just might come true. my brother decided that he was going to keith urban this fall and my mom said i may be able to go if i can find cheap good tickets...so here i am trying to find cheap good tickets. to listen to my favorite country artists of all time.

keith has so many country classics to re-count: making memories, days go by, but for the grace of god, somebody like you, you'll think of me, and his newer ones; once in a lifetime and stupid boy. and i'm sure there are many more...but i won't bore you forever.

i know this may sound lame...but true. and comes with been a hard core keith fan...you gotta like the wife...everyone also asked me what i think of nicole kidman. well as an actor she's absolutely amazing, and i kind of liked her with tom cruise but then he got into all that scientology crap and lost my respect. i hope they don't have a typical hollywood marriage and it ends in about half a year. they kind of remind me of tim mcraw and faith hill, such a cute couple...so lets hope they last long like them.

so that's my all time favorite artist for you... i hope it wasn't as boring as my daily life! i'll give you more of my favorite things coming up.... stay tuned!

...day sixteen?

wow...it seems as if the time is just a flying here in smithers--its almost starting to feel like spring which is a total awesomeness. i love spring...best part of the year! ...because after that comes the bestest time of the year--SUMMER. so work...well i'm still in training but i'm done my twelve hours of the retched training computer program and i start officially on the till on friday...very exciting, and very nervraking ...well anyways the sr. boys left for basketball provincials in abotsford today--good luck guys...well that's my boring life...love you tons, brooke(F)

...day fifteen

well everybody...i'm sorry its been so long, but brooke's busy life seems to be catching up with her!. well this thursday i started training for my new job at safeway...memorizing more than a hundred codes, not so much my forte. but talking to people all day...i shouldn't really have a problem with. otherwise, its just being plan old boring school, which the days are seeming to go by so slow but yet i have so much to do....i want school to be over. i want manda to be home (the reason i'm updating my blog)...i miss her so much....and no offence to my gnarly gangster brother but literally sometimes i just can't tell him everything that i tell manda...i guess that's what sisters are for and you don't know how much you miss someone until there are half way around the world...and not there to talk to everyday! well manda...if your reading this "don't forget to remember me" i love you so much and miss you a thousand stars in the sky! well that's my life...enjoy, have a nice day
brooke(F)...
...God speed

...day fourteen

hey everybody, sorry it has been a while. well last week thursday was the winter banquet--a night in paris, it was super fun then after it was to boston pizza just to chill. on friday, saturday, and sunday was summit--it was a lot of fun although i have been sick for a while now and it seems like i'm getting more and more behind on school. i went to school today for the first two classes then it was home where i slept for a while and i am still not feeling any better than i was...it sucks been sick and it seems like i am always sick... well anyways sorry so short but i don't feel like writing anymore...love you tons
brooke(F)

...day thirteen

hey everybody...well back to school today except i'm crazy behind in socails, and english--i have to read 100 pages for english, 70 for socails, and i have a socails test tomorrow and it just happened to be the day that i don't bring any of my other stuff home. oh well i guess i'll just fail my first socails test of the term--no biggy at all. man i am so stupid. this week is going to be so busy that it's not even going to be funny. i just want it to be thursday already done winter banquet and going to summit this weekend--emma get ready to have some hard core fun girl. well anyways that's my pathetic monday
--brooke(F)

...day twelve

guess whos back back back...back again. well i skipped a few days--sorry people. yup winter games was totally awesome except for the traveling fourteen hours there and nine on the way back it was definitely brutal--i have never ever watched so many movies in my whole intire life. but we played good this weekend--we got first, the guys a team got first also, and for the guys b team they got fourth. it was so much fun. our billet person that we stayed with had three dogs, a cat, and two birds--and i hate pets that part also kind of sucked. overall all good i haven't done any homework or anything so i'm probably screwed but anyways i gotta jet outta here. love you and missed you all
--brooke(F)

...day eleven

well here i am once again--some of you must just think i have no life having time to do this every single day. well its true-i do have no life. but tomorrow bright n' early as in four thirty early. yup...so for the next few day i will have a life! that's why i may not be blogging for the next few days--sorry. well today was an ok day. i don't really remember it but i'll try recall it to the best of my ability. today first class, spare, finished my geography, and read my english book for a while. then english, read the lord of the flies--i'm not really getting the point yet but i'll figure it out. umm...then foods made chicken wraps things but i don't know how to spell it butthey were so num!. socails and geography, socails just notes and geography sat there and did nothing cause i finish in my spare. well thats my day.
--brooke ames(F)

...day ten

hey hey hey...day ten!! today, was kind of a crappy day though. geography was good, double socails, just notes gets a little bit boring after a while. and then english actually kind of went by fast. then came after school, hung out up town for a while--good times. but then came volleyball the downside of brooke's day. yup, i couldn't seem to get anything right--from passing, to setting, and hitting. then to top it all off i just had to get trampled by an uncoordinated huge tall monster...yup my arm killing me--why does this always have to happen to me, two days before we leave you have got to be kiddin' me. yup well that was my day for you...not too exciting.
--brooke(F)

...day nine

well new semester today...it should be an interesting one. english, should be good n' hard. socails, should be interesting. geography, might be a test, britney and becca just can't seem to shut their mouths--i might get thru it though...i guess i have no choice. homework on the first day in every class except for geography--what an amazing day. it almost felt like we were gone for a while and then came back when really we were in school just last week with only a weekend off. well anyways, when i got home i really did nothing...it was pretty awesome. well anyways that's day nine and a new start of the week.
--brooke (F)

...day eight

well its sunday today...quiet day. doing absolutely nothing. i went to church this morning. it was pretty awesome--the norm pretty much. then went out to grandma's for coffee watched a good ol' nineties movie. it was pretty much the stuff. after that, it was watching the super bowl--it was pretty much amazing. and way to go Indianapolis! pretty much after that nothing...there's my slacker sunday for you. tomorrow's a new semester, lets hope its better than the last one.
--brooke(F)

...day seven

...well its been one week since i started blogging. today, i actually slept in, like slept in, slept in, till like eleven. then i did absolutely nothing all day! ...i haven't done that in like forever so it felt kind of nice--but boring at the same time. anyways...we had one of our last practices before winter games today--three hours long, it was long, but also good. anyways, one more practice then next week we are off to ft. st. john for a ten hour bus ride or something crazy like that. it should be fun. well anyways that was my boring saturday and i am now watching the kid--best movie ever made, oh ya. have a good one.
--brooke(F)

...day six

its a new month...second day in...well today was an absolutely amazing day. our school ski day was today and it was the most perfect day for it. clear blue sky's, warm outside, no wind...b-e-a-u-tiful day. me and james had to just straight line everything--i love you girl! twinkle toes will always be the best one out there. i might be sore tomorrow but it was so worth it... might be a little bit tired at our three hour volleyball practice tomorrow but it'll be all good. today was definitely better than yesterday. oh ya! i really did have fun today...going up the chair, not eating starbursts, and raging everywhere we ever went. well i hope you all had as good as a day as i did...
--brooke amy(F)

...day five

so exams are over! ...finished the very last one today. earth science wasn't as bad as a thought it would be--but i think i'd rather keep my mouth shut until i get my mark. first exam ever that i've finished in under an hour. its almost a miracle and a half. after exams, i went to java's for coffee with dan, eric, robyn, sheri, and daryl. then we all went up town to find something to do in smithers...wow its not as easy as it sounds, serious. after finding stuff to do, we went to boston pizza for eric's birthday (happy birthday eric!). then sheri's house for sequence, never played it before but i must say it was fun...except maybe to the no communicating with your partner part. "today is the best day of my life and i hear tomorrow will even be better" --american eagle t-shirt. --brooke (F)

...day four

well another day...today was pretty long and boring. cleaned the house, made bread, and attempted to study for my earth science exam--which is tomorrow, brooke is so screwed. the best part of my day though was definitely the part where lisa and jolene came over to watch high school musical. lamest, but best chic flic i've ever seen. More movies i'd like to see...catch and release and then the pursuit of happiness. but it might still be a while since our theatre takes so long to get things in. and then two weeks later it will come out on dvd--then i'll just have to see it again. well i'm kind of scared for earth science tomorrow since i'm not doing so good in the course--and i haven't exactly studied yet. but anyways its just multiple choice and a hundred and fifty of them. what was mr. franken ever thinking when he made it a hundred and fidgety questions. then if for ever six we get wrong we get one mark off...we're screwed. well anyways that enough rambling for me today... pray for me tomorrow--i might need it.
--brooke (F)

...day three

wow...brooke's done math forever, well hopefully. still might have math 12 next year. now i have all day tomorrow to do whatever i feel like doing! ...i don't think i've done that in a while. well today, math exam wasn't as bad as i thought it would be but i definitely didn't get 80%. then me and jolene hung out for a while--no driving over curbs today :P. i had my fix of double shot mocha--absolutely the most amazing thing ever. but i held in my energy till i got home...sorry. i had winter games volleyball today--it was very fun and we did lots today. winter games is already next week--crazy. but anyways i'll just be chillin' and enjoying my day tomorrow--cleaning the house, don't worry mom. studying for earth science and probably msn. that is if the internet works magically for me. well tt y'all later.
--brooke(F)

...day two

well its a new day...and day two of blogging. so here i am once again. well today was math study session for our growling math 11 exam tomorrow morning--heck ya brooke's going to get 52% definitely not 80% hunny. well after studying, i went curling for my last pe class of all of 2007--wow i now appreciate that sport, trust me it is way harder than it looks. ...went for lunch at the aspen and hung out with dan all day...good times forever;) i should be studying for math but 0% will still get me through the retched course that somehow sometimes it ain't so bad. i'm so excited for a new semester to start. i am getting sick of math, sick of earth science, sick of art, and sick of bible...and i guess kind of sick of pe class. ...next semester should be better with socails, geography, English, spare, and foods. ...i'll tell you how its going when it starts. well everyone day two is over now...and the start of day three is coming--i'll tell you how it goes. --brooke. (F)

...my first blog

hey everyone,
my name is brooke, 16, blonde and 5'5 ish... i love to play volleyball, and soccer and any other sport that's not basketball. big hockey fan of the vancouver canucks ;) . well, everyone who loves to hang out with there friends...well that's me--very socail. listening to music is my pride and my joy, i don't know what i'd do without my odd mix of Keith urban, rise against, brad paisley and jojo...although, any country music is my realiable source whenever i'm in a bad mood. it's pretty much my dream to meet Keith, brooks n' dunn, or the legendary timmcgraw--i must say he's pretty amazing. well enough about country music for now. i born and partly raised in smithers, a small hick town in northern bc. i lived in Victoria for two years --good experience but i wouldn't actually want to live in the city permanently. although, i do love to shop--lets just say American eagle gets my share of support. i go to a small christian school--where i have found the best friend i could ever ask for. yup...i love you. i have a family of six. my two parents, absolutely amazing i must say. i have two brothers. My older brother blake is perusing his dream of becoming a pastor. and my younger brother, as crazy as he is, loves to snowboard and he's got to be the gnarliest thing ever. i have an older sister. she is actually half way across the world in India doing ywam--its very exciting and jealous for me at the same time. man manda, i miss you tons. well that's my almost perfect life--sometimes trials are hard but other times its life and i love to live it. well that's me...brooke