favorite birthday wishes

One of my best friends (frankie) who now lives in Utah wrote me my favorite birthday wish this past Thursday.
I thought I would share.

"So, there's this girl, and she's just so dang cool. She's my best friend, my lovely wife, & that one person you can talk to about absolutely everything.
We have painted her entire front room & almost all ourselves, dressed up as gangstas to avoid rape, taken multiple photo shoots, spray painted an old "haunted house", dressed up as the World's most ridiculous superheroes and walked all over town, played halo and wow for hours and yelled at intimate objects the whole time, & ssooo many amazing things I can't remember. I sure do miss her. She's an adult today, I hope she has the best birthday in the whole World :)"

still awake.

& its 3:46am

Insomnia has taken its toll again.

I'm partly keeping myself awake,

cause I know I have a lot of things I need to do.

& also I'm a little excited about spending tomorrow (or.. today?) with one of my favorite people.

& a little nervous not knowing exactly what we are going to do all day.

hmm.

Stay tuned..

Last Weekend, I know I'm late.

This weekend I spent with my best friend Rachel at her house.
We made bread from scratch,
hung out with our good friend Mich who is visiting from Germany & staying with us,
Introduced him to 'Step Brothers'. Like seriously, How can you not have seen that movie!?
all in all,
great weekend.

{my hat that I made.}


This picture makes me laugh so hard!
I don't even know what we were doing!


{Mich & his frownie face}
{Me & Baby London. What a cutie!}

Fourth

Happy late fourth!

My computer has been broken... I'm sorry I haven't updated lately!

My fourth went a little like this:

Church, in cut offs and barefoot.

Feeling sick, because the day before I ate nothing & I just drank a Monster (bad combo)

Felt A LOT better when I ate some veggie kebabs!

Then I had some Monster jello shots (what can I say? Its an addiction)

I shot off a lot off my first fireworks AND had my first sparklers :D

plus,

Me and Rachel went on a haunted house adventure.

Oh yeah.

Probably the best fourth of July yet!

Besides the feeling bad part but hey!

We can't have it all..

Ihop? Oh man, I hope!

On the fourth of July I drove to Rachel's house after church & she rode home with me.

But we took a little detour...

She had been talking about how she wanted Ihop for weeks & weeks, & needless to say..

she was happier than a kid in a candy store.
yum yum!
We love Ihop!

We take all different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little bit of each other.

THIS,

is my best friend.

A lot of girls have a lot of best friends.

But I only have a few and this chick is definitely at the top of the list.

She is different from anyone you'd ever meet.

Unfortunately she see's the good in everything! hehe

And she doesn't stay mad or sad about anything long.

Well, at least if she does she doesn't show it.

She is a good time, a girlie girl, but a tom boy too, a artistic, WOW (World Of Warcraft) addicted, music lovin, awesome person!

Who uses "dude" or "rad" in ever sentence and dyes her hair so much I'm concerned its going to fall out :/

Today I was feeling down and I texted her (twenty text messages to be specific on how "nothing is going right") and it had nothing to do with what she said or didn't say but I noticed as I just talked to her, I started feeling so much better!

She lives in Utah, & I haven't seen her in almost a year,

but she is still one of my best friends.

I love her,

We have so many fun memories together.

I cant wait to create some more this Summer.

Our last Summer being teenagers :/

Letters/ I hate the Devil

Dear this weekend,

its like you have magnetic powers dragging me to you. Kicking and screaming the whole way. PLEASE release you stupid powers. I don't want it to be the weekend yet... I'm sure I'm ready for what I've got to do!

Dear devil,

I've noticed how you seem to have made EVERYONE be going through something all together right now which is making EVERYTHING super stressful for everyone. Like these things for instance

-My best friend going through a shocking break up.

-I drop everything to go be with her at her house.

-Her Grandmother coming into town.

-her mother and grandmother are about to leave on a trip right as her brother his fiance and child are moving back in.

-My roadtrip I'm suppose to be taking this weekend with my mom has a new passenger now, I've invited my best friend to come along so she isn't lonely at home (she was suppose to be with her boyfriend this weekend).

-My Jeep braking down because the guy didn't fix it right and we now don't know what car we are going to take.

-I'm about to travel to see someone I haven't seen in 7 months (with my mother and best friend in tow) and I have no idea how they are going to react to seeing me..

-It doesn't help that everyone is being negative about it.

-My grandparents want me to go spend the week after I make my roadtrip with them (there home is on the way back home from where I am going on my roadtrip), and my best friend wants me to spend the next week after it with her in there beach condo in Galveston till her mom gets back, but to be honest, I have no idea what kind of state I'm going to be in. If I am even going to want to be around anyone!

-my skin is still TOO PALE! And since the Jeep broke down and I'm at my best friends house till.. I don't know when I have no idea when I'm going to be able to get color.

-I still don't have a thing to wear or a penny in my bank account to buy anything to wear.

OH DEAR LORD DELIVER ME

I do not think I could be freaking out more!

so long my luckless romance

{via}

Well,

I must admit I have a bit of a television addiction.

I get bored during the day and probably watch a bit more than i should.

The sad part is I barely even, really pay attention.

I normally keep it on while I am playing on the computer or I will turn it on something I don't even care to watch simply because I am bored.

The average person is suppose to watch two hours of TV a day (or so I've read).

So today (and hopefully every day for the rest of the week)

I am only going to watch two hours of television.

Hopefully I will get to catch up on some reading.

I envy my friends like Rachel who barely even watch TV.

So bye bye TV.

I will get rid of this horrible addiction yet.

Just watch me.

Midnight Sparrow and Yellow Falcon at it again

Yesterday I went over to my best friend Rachel's

and we had a little photo shoot in her back yard before

we had to go to youth.

(i'll post more later)

We had a great LONG night.

(didn't go to sleep till 6am)

we mostly just talked,

and went for a run.

This is going to be an exciting weekend though!

Tonight, Rick Pino concert!

Keep Austin Weird {Day Two: Saturday}

Seeing how we stayed up late (or should I say early) the night before 10am came too soon,

We slowly got out of bed to enjoy a fun filled day at the Texas Capitol!

My best friend Rach and my mother
Me and her mother (my second mother)

Inside the capitol,

It was so gorgeous!

House of Representatives

The henge's on all the doors

After the fun adventure at the capitol we went to sixth street and ate at the Old Pecan Street Cafe.

It was a beautiful day,

we ended up sitting outside on the enclosed patio...

I was in heaven

Blue Bonnets

The sucker/ jaw breaker/ gum

that made my mouth sore and is the reason a piece of my tongue is missing..

Oh how I was I was joking...

All together,

It was a fun trip. I'm ready for another adventure

Keep Austin Weird {Day One: Friday}

I know my last blog I was aggravated about having to pack but I didn't say where I was going.

Well,

I went on a mother, daughter trip to Austin Texas with my mom, best friend and her mom.

It was an exciting trip... very interesting.

We went to see "The Phantom of the Opera" since we missed it when it came to Houston,

so when we found out it was coming to Austin we said "ROADTRIP!".

Above is my dress for Phantom. Its floor length, I wish I would've gotten a better picture of it.

We hit the road early (well.. eleven is early for us) and took Harley to the kennel/ boarding place which was terribly sad and traumatic.

He had never been away from me for more than a few hours! He is like my child! But I had to do it… Turns out this man was checking in his female yorkshire terrier at the same time and Harley was a bit more interested in her than me leaving him. That’s my baby boy!

The road part of the trip went by really fast.

We stopped at this hole in the wall gas station for a yummy veggie pizza (my mouth is watering just thinking about it)
Austin is the biggest party/ college town ever! It was an intense experience.

We finally got to our hotel and got dressed and went to the show. It was good.

We all enjoyed it.

Then went to get the car and Peri (my best friend, Rachel's, mother) put the car into reverse TWICE when we were trying to go forward and almost took out a bush.

It was pretty scary.

There were close to a hundred people standing around us laughing.

Then we tried to find something to eat. There were gangsters and partiers EVERYWHERE!

Traffic was terrible it took us two hours to find the restaurant we wanted to go to (although we got lost a couple of times and flagged down by these total creepers trying to hit on us. I laughed at them, Rach wanted to beat them up. It was pretty funny)

and then we had to wait thirty minutes to get a table.

On the way to the restaurant we seriously witnessed a police chase.

There was a car right in front of us, kinda in a T-bone position and there were cops on bikes checking all the cars for drunk drivers and when one of the cops tried to shine his flash light in the car the car sped off and almost took out one of the cops.

But the guy in the car was completely stupid because there was a cop car DIRECTLY behind him, he only made it like a block. It was funny though.

When we got to the restaurant we were so hungry and tired I think we were like half drunk or high or something because we were laughing at everything and everyone and just acting crazy.

But it was fun. Anyways after that we went back to the hotel ate a huge piece of chocolate cake and then me and Rach snuck downstairs and attempted to work out.

We finally went to sleep around five am.

GOOD DAY!

Bryce

Yes guys.

I fell in love in Utah.

I don't even know what it was...

Maybe all the nights he would stay up with me looking at the stars.

Or how he was an amazing friend to me no matter what.

Or the fact that he seriously treats me better than anyone ever has.

His hugs, or his smile.

Or how he was extremely romantic without even trying.

Or how I could talk to him about anything.

How he finds the stupid things I do funny.

Or how he became my best friend after knowing him for like two days.

Or how no matter what we did, it was always the best times I'd ever had.

I could go on about him forever but I think that you guys would probably want to shoot me.

anyways,

you guys are probably like,

Brooke! He lives in Utah!

What the heck?

Yes he does.

He is going into the military.

In fact Wednesday he is leaving for basic training :/

It is going to be so hard.

And its really going to be a challenge.

The only way to contact him is through letters

(which I'm very excited about! I've been wanting to write people letters for awhile. In fact before I went to Utah me and frankie were planning on becoming pen pals but it never really took off because we talked on the phone everyday anyways)

But we are going to go through things that most relationships never experience.

I think we are going to be just fine. :)

after he gets done with that he will hopefully be stationed in Texas.

And I will get to go see him all the time.
I never thought I would be dating a military guy.

I didn't even WANT to like him!

I tried to avoid it so much.

When I came to Utah I could wait to meet all of frankie and her families friends and family down there.

One of those people were Bryce.

The first time I met him I noticed he was the exact kind of person I LOVED to be around.

Hilarious, fun, good looking (haha), and the BEST personality.

Somehow we just hit it off as friends and talked and hung out all the time.

He eventually told me his feelings for me and ended up asking me out.

Which he didn't want to do until he got back from basic, but I'm so happy he did!

It was perfect.

So I now have a boyfriend.

Who is amazing.

and I couldn't be happier

even though he is going to basic which is 1,001 miles away from me for the next few months.

He really is awesome.

and I cant wait for him to get to Texas!

ah man.

:( our Internet is out at our house.

I miss blogging.

BUT I'M HAVING A WONDERFUL TIME.

Currently with Chelsea,

about to have dinner with her (my adopted) family.

details later... hopefully

Dear Frankie,

remember that time when your parents left us home alone at your house for a week and in that week we got

"married"

lost your dog

dressed up in your brothers clothes and pretended to be guys (Bud & Johnny)

found your dog

had a photo shoot

made you look exactly like Cody

went to walmart at all hours of the night

walked around walmart with double D bra's on over our shirts

you broke the air condition by turning it in the 40's

rocked out to music at all hours and got yelled at by your neighbors

you did my hair while I tried to figure out Halo and made me feel like a movie star

you shared your tooth brush with me because I was too tired to move from the hallway?

Oh and that's nothing!

remember all the times we laughed so hard at nothing?

and when we used to dance in the rain?

and we invented finger clapping?

And how we celebrated our anniversary in Galveston?

And how you taught me to play that future game?

And how we used to dream of moving to New York together?

including having matching dogs and matching cars?

remember when we used to eat tons of watermelon?

and when we went to java jazz to see Cody play and we slow danced to hardcore rock music and everyone stared?

and when you introduced me as Cody's wife to the band and they started to believe you?

And when we got in paint fights at my house?

When we danced and sang around the camp fire in Galveston?

When I turned on the jets on our bubble bath and we got the WHOLE bathroom soaked!?

And when you broke my sunglasses with your butt?

When you invented the phrase "double hand holding, we are so best friends!"?

When Cody made up that phrase "high five for being alive" when we almost got into a wreck (that has nothing to do with me and you but it is still hilarious!)?

and that one time when you said "people need to use how to learn there brains"?

When we kept saying "God loves you. But the rest of us think your an asshole"?

When SOMEONE took away my necklace I used to always wear and you gave me your cross one, which I still, to this day only take off to take showers?

How we would always cuddle?

How somehow by morning you would always end up on top of me?

When we snuck out after my mother told us not to leave and walked around the neighborhood behind my apartment and decided it smelt like decaying bodies and ran all the way home?

When we would stay up all night talking and we kept say "okay, lets go to sleep" and ten minutes later we would be talking again?

I remember all these things.

And I miss you terribly.

I cant wait to visit you in Utah!

I know Utah is probably the best place for you right now but is it selfish that I want you to come live in my closet?

I ALWAYS have the best times with you!

I hate not seeing you every weekend.

I LOVE YOU FRANKIE SUSAN MARIE STOKES!

p.s.

she is going to punch me for saying her full name on here.

at least I left out her first name ;)

p.s.s.

and if you really want to go back in time remember before the last time you moved back to Utah and me, you, and Rachel had a sleepover and I asked you to "trim" me hair.

And I went from hair almost to my butt that was all one length to hair to my shoulders and bangs?

That was the best.

Chelsea's 'almost' in China

She had to be at the school at 2:30am,

I spent the night and we planned on staying up all night but for some reason I just couldn't make it.

I was out by 1am and she woke me up.

When we got to the school she was really excited.

I was excited for her!
She wont be back for two weeks. :(

She got lots of HUGS!

Last minute kisses

Then got on the bus....

And then she was off..

Hurry back Chels!

But have a good time.

WE'LL MISS YOU!