Day trip.

Sooo on my wonderful day off I went and hung out with my wonderful aunt Lora and her four beautiful children!!!  Jessie tagged along with me and we went to the beach and visit the grave sites of my great-great grandpa, my great grandpa and my second cousin Amber.  Oh and also had some lunch at Burger King. YUM YUM  It was such a nice relaxing day to lay out on the beach and soak up some sun.  I am glad that Jessie tagged along to I dont get to see her much within the week.  It was good to hang out with my little sister.

this is our awesome sand castle

us <3 really bad picture but I love them.

Things to keep in mind when it comes to planning my own wedding.

Well my cousins wedding was this weekend and it was definitely nothing that I wanted or expected it to be.  But I guess that part doesn't matter for it wasn't my wedding.  Usually when I attend a wedding I usually get the feeling that I want to get married..... BUT this wedding didn't have the same affect.  The wedding was a destination wedding on beaver island.  Like I said before it was a three hour drive to the ferry and then a two and a half hour ferry ride.  Once we got done with the car ride we had to go get our tickets I already paid for my ticket earlier in the year and just had to tell the lady my name and my ticket would be waiting for me.  (Which I was told not even two days before)  Well my ticket wasn't there.  I was not happy about that..... soo instead of everyone else trip over my trip cost me $100 dollars when it should have only been 42 which I had already paid. NOTE TO SELF: DON'T HAVE A DESTINATION WEDDING.  So before we even got over to the island I was not thrilled.  But I got over it and got excited for the ferry ride since that is one of the things on my bucket list that I want to do before I die.  In fact I most likely would have had more fun if I just rode the ferry back and forth the whole weekend then attend the wedding. 
 The first night we get checked into our hotel and then headed over for the wedding rehearsal and rehearsal dinner.  The rehearsal was a joke everyone had started drinking on the ferry so by the time of the rehearsal everyone was pretty much tanked which made the rehearsal really loud and a complete waste of time. NOTE TO SELF: DON'T HAVE ALCOHOL AT THE REHEARSAL DINNER! After the rehearsal we headed back over to the hotel to have the rehearsal dinner.  The dinner was sooooo good there were cheesy potatoes, green beans, bread and some kind of meat I wanna say pork.  One thing that I actually liked about the rehearsal dinner was before anyone got up to get food they had to stand up and say one nice thing about the groom or the bride.  I thought that was a great idea!  The rest of the night was obviously spent going to bed really early since tomorrow was the big day!!!! NOT.... the rest of the night was spent drinking and then more drinking....... I went to bed or tried to go to bed. lol
  The next day was the wedding.  All of the girls woke up super early and got our stuff together to go and get ready at the cabin.   I was then expected to do all the bridesmaids hair.  Which I kindly did of course.  Then after that I had to head back over to the hotel and cut and make sure that all the groomsmen where dressing and cut the grooms hair along with a couple others.  That left me with about 10 min to get ready :/  NOTE TO SELF: PAY SOMEONE TO DO HAIR OR AT LEAST SAY THANK YOU!  Rough morning that ended with a rough night.   After the wedding I caught a ride back to the hotel with my mom and dad and we spent the rest of the night relaxing and laying on the beach.  (this was my favorite part of the whole weekend, I LOVE THE BEACH!)  After the relaxing day around 12:30 I walked back to my hotel room to find one of the boys in the wedding waiting for me to drive up to the hotel and bring all the drunk people back to the hotel.  So the rest of my night was back and forth to the cabin and hotel making sure the rest of the bridal party got back safe.  Lets just say I was soooooo anxious to get home!!! What a great weekend!!!!  Even though it was not a fun weekend for me and I will never go back to beaver island I do know of somethings that I will keep in mind when I go to have my own wedding one day!!! NOTE TO SELF: INVITE MY WHOLE FAMILY!!!

pictures soon to follow :)

Love letters.

Summer is just flying by I can not believe that july is almost over!!! ughhh that is crazy.  My summer has been going by great really busy but alot of fun.  I have been up north more than once, swimming a ton, along with fishing, tanning and laughing. :) My cousins wedding is this weekend on beaver island I am sooo excited for I am in the wedding and I have never even heard of beaver island until now.   It is about a three hour drive and then a two hour ferry ride to get to beaver island. whew talk about a loonnnggg day!!! 

Work has been going great I am there everyday and I can not wait for this little mini wedding vacation. lol  I really do love my job!!! Or should I say jobS I am still at the apple which has been going okay.  Havent really been making any money there soo that is kinda a bummer but it will get better hopefully.

Sooo I wanted to switch my blog up a bit I am kinda sick of writng about myself all the time lol.  So I decided to write a love letter to my future husband.  I know he is out there and I cant wait to start our lives together hahhah I am not gonna write out the whole thing all at once just bits and pieces here and there.  I am really excited and hopefully this will make blogging a little more interesting for me hahha.

I AM 21!!!!!

Its been such a loooonnggg time since I have written in my blog let alone opened my computer!!! Some exciting stuff has been happening in the life of brooke in the last couple weeks tho and I must share them. I turned 21 on may 27th and had a great time!! I got some new pandora beads which I love. (thanks mom)   My sister graduated from high school and already had her open house which was alot of work and exciting to watch everything happen sooo quickly.  The whole time it was just a reminder on how fast time has flew by and three years ago that was me walking down the aisle.  She will be attending Corner stone in the fall and I will miss her greatly. 

I have been enjoying my busy summer but I wish the weather would make up its mind and just stop raining!!!  I still work a ton at the salon and friday and saturday nights at apple mountian.  I have stopped working out!!! Which I need that time to go running but I am sooo busy all the time and when I have time to just sit down I dont feel like running!  Hopefully next time I blog I will have picked that up agian.

My family is leaving in less than a week to go to the prettiest place in the whole world..... COSTA RICA!!! They are leaving me home and not even leaving trixie here to keep me company. :( they think I am going to kill her!!! ughhh So I am going to be sooo lonely at home, plus I need to do something special that week just for me since I didnt get to go with them!!! I hope that they at least bring me something back!!  I hope there trip is fun and they get there and back safely.



Tons of updates...

Well to start off it has been a really really long time since I have blogged and I am very sorry.  So this new post is going to be pretty long. (sorry) The next thing I want to say is about my last post.  BOTH of the new fish died!!!! ughh Ghepetto is just not having it he needs to live alone and I am done trying to find a friend for him.... there is no use he just kills them all.  I just need to be grateful that he is still alive hahah.  Work has been going great, along with the classes that I tend on Sundays and Mondays.  Tomorrow I have another make up class which I am sooo pumped about.  Except the last makeup class I had did not go to well.  I was the model for air brush make up which I was soooo excited about but it didn't end too well.  I had an allergic reaction to the make up and it made my eyes water non stop and made my face get puffy.  :( it was not fun and I didn't even like it I looked like a totally different person... see if I ever do that again.

I am still working at apple and I have decided that I am not gonna quit there.  I love working there and its nice to make a few extra dollars on the weekends.

 My grandma has moved into town and that has been soo nice to be able to go over to her house and just spend some time with her.  I enjoy it alot even if we are just cleaning her smoked filled house.  She moved into a house where the last owner was a smoker soo ever since she has moved in we have tried to get that horrid smell out.  It is definitely a project but a blessing to have her live so close.

Mel had prom, she was beautiful.  I of course did her hair and she looked lovely!!!  It was neat because the boy she ended up going with was king, and when I went the boy I went with was king too!! :)  I did not like mels dress that much but it ended up looking really good, even tho her and her date didnt match. hhahah But they both had fun and mel won a tv that night hahha YOU GO GIRL!

I had to work on mothers day at apple mountain but only until about 4 so I still got to go home and spend time with my mother.  This year I got her a gift card to Shapers salon.  Which I knew she secretly wanted hahha.  She of course loved it along with the perfect mothers day card! (you will have to ask her about that one.)  My aunt Lora and her family was up soo it was nice to see my little cousins and spend the day with them too along with my g-ma.  We spent most of the day laying out in the sun it was such a good mothers day!

Also during this time of no blogging, I attended a birthday party for little Connor James!  He turned one! Rachel and I went in on a gift for him and got him three new cute little outfits.  The whole time we were shopping for his present we kept saying... this would be soo much easier if connor was a girl.  He had a rockstar party theme and when we walking in he was even looking like a rockstar.  He is the cutest little boy ever.

Last but not least... May is flying by sooo quickly and everything is happening.  Mels last day of school just happens to fall on my birthday.  So we are both eagerly waiting for our special day.  But I am not ready for mel to be done with high school.... I am gonna miss her in the fall.  Well I better be off to bed I have a big day tomorrow and maybe will have time to blog about it. We will see. :)



new members to the family.

Today when I was out running some errands I bought two new fish to add to my five gallon fish tank.
Meet Guido and Louie :)

They love their new home.

Ghepetto has to get used to his new friends but I think he loves the company. :)

I love them already.

HaPpY eAsTeR!!

I love Easter I had such a good time yesterday spending time with family and friends.  My aunt Lora came over along with a couple other people from church.  I ate tons of food that I probably should have not had but enjoyed every bite of it.  My aunt Lora also made us a beautiful Easter basket for the whole family! :) She is such a good aunt!!  The basket consisted of big chocolate bunnys, pixy sticks, pop rocks, and chocolate and more and more chocolate!  We had the traditional Easter dinner with ham, cheesy potatoes and home made bread.  It was all very tasty. 

I did not get a new Easter dress this year but I ended up wearing a brand new dress so that worked out really well.  Mel got a new Easter dress and was not to excited about it so she let me wear it.  It was such a cute dress, not only was it purple (my favorite color) but it was also very very comfortable.  I loved it and will have to borrow it again sometime.

As you can tell I have not been doing that great on keeping up on my blog but I am gonna try to blog at least once a week, like a week recap.  To keep you all updated on my crazy life.  This week I worked Friday and Saturday and ended up making 100 dollars both nights!  whoo whooo I am sooo excited for next weekend for its the big WALLEYE FEST!! I have Saturday totally off for the big day!  Which will involve a birthday party, helping with my moms garage sale, and maybe helping my grandma and papa move into their new house.  Its gonna be a big day. I can not wait!!