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