Kosher?

So here's the thing. I was thinking about a certain special someone. Someone i am super duper close to. And how much they were obsessed with pickles in 7th grade. Then i thought, when was the last time i had a pickle? I couldn't remember! SUCH an issue! So i went to good ol walmart and bought some pickles. Are they good for me? i have no clue, and i don't really care. (but incase you wanted to know, i could probably find out cuz i'm in a hard core nutrition class :)) But i've eaten two tonight already. oh MAN i've missed this sweet crunchy snack!

yummmmmmmmmy 

 

you see this picture? THIS is pure bliss. PURE HAPPINESS. 

 thats it, i'm done. 

i'm DONE with this whole winter thing. 

DONE with the snow.

JUST DONE. 

i'm going to listen to summer music. 

i'm going tanning.

i'm wearing whatever colors i want. 

my summer starts TODAY.

greaaaaat

this week is off to a great start.

Monday night, Kendra broke her pelvis. Yep, broke it. Her pelvis. 

Tuesday, i find out i have a test on wednesday on things i don't even know about. 

Wednesday, wake up and throw up. Been sick in bed aallll day..

I just want it to be summer so i can be at home and watch Sci Fi movies with my mom.

but hey, at least all the new snow is making this place beautiful! 

Yep, life is good. 

doin work.

for your entertainment:

this is me hot tubbing. aka: underwater camera + Kendra = weird underwater pictures of me.

On a more serious note...

So this sunday, being the good little girl i am, i went straight{ish} to my sunday school class. Then being the good pappa and brother's they are, Aaron, Nyal, and Kenton came and excused me from class. Why? because we had to go to the library to do some INDEXING!!!

this was seriously the coooolest thing! What it is you get a photo of an old census and you type out the information so when people are doing family history, its easier to find information. cool huh! Sometimes its hard to read the hand writing because its all in cursive, but i try! Sometimes i get kinda bummed if i can't read something, and it stresses me out because this is such an important work and i don't want to get it wrong! 

But then i found out that they have a lot of people to the same ones and compare them. 

just to get an idea, they look a little something like this:

...and we have to type that out.

so yeah...

So now its just one of my most favorite activities. 

i lost 40lbs in one week.

So, this semester i'm doing this new thing. 

its called: 

working out...

Kendra and I have become big time gym-goers. 

And i LOVE it!

we go for an hour or two as often as possible and its really a GREAT work out! 

One of things i wanted to change about myself this semester was to take care of my body, and so here i go! i'm doing it! yippy! 

oh right, you're probably wondering why this post is titled "i lost 40lbs in one week."

well here's the thing, i don't have a scale, so i use Amanda's. 

Last week it said i weighed roughly 120.

This week it said i weigh 86! HECK YEAH!!! 

hahah totally broken. don't worry, we located a working one. 

but i have one problem: i can't get to the gym every night. but i still want to do some sort of work out before bed in my room! I don't know of very many things i can do that are very effective hah.

Help me out! Please? What are some great nightly routines i can do in my room do get a rockin bod!?

[This is where you come in. Just push that little comment button below and tell me your favorite work out technique.]

Breakthrough :)

This picture actually has nothing to do with this post, it just makes me happy. just love it.

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I've got it.

So if you know me, you know i've never been so pumped to live here, be at this school, or any of this stuff i'm doing these days. Lately i've just been getting really frustrated to the point of tears about what i'm supposed to be doing here and if i'm even supposed to be here! Last night a friend asked me how i liked provo, and i really didn't know. I know i'm not in love with it, but i couldn't really figure out what the deal was. I told him how i had never been a real fan of BYU or any other college and i mostly came here because my parents wanted me to and it was cheapest for us. He put it into perfect words. 

"So its just because you didn't choose to come here by yourself..."

yeah, i guess thats it. 

But whats wrong with this place?

nothing. 

So whats the deal Brooke!?!?

I just always am complaining about this place and how i don't like it and i don't want to be here. 

So...I went to the Lord for help.

And the other night when i was reading my scriptures, i was reading the beginning of the Book of Mormon in 1st Nephi, about when Lehi had to take his family and move. He said it was going to be hard, but they had to do it. And when they had to go get the plates, all they did was murmur, and hey, that did nobody any good!

EURIKA! 

Its like college. 

its going to be hard

i'm going to have to work at it

but i need to do it

and complaining is not going to make it any better!

So i decided to be happy, or at least to try to find the positives about everything up here and make it awesome. 

THEN...

It just hit me. 

I'm out here to be on my own. I'm out here to grow up. While the guys my age are going on missions, i need to grow up myself. Thats why i'm out here. Not especially for this school, or any program here, but because it is a good school and a good environment away from home where i can grow to my full spiritual potential and to kinda just grow up! you know?

The trials i've gone through up here would not have happened at home. I would not have learned the thing i've learned, i would not have met the people i've met and learned from them. i would not have learned things about myself that i've discovered either. I had to come learn these things because none of that would have happened at home or anywhere else. 

Oh goodness. Its amazing what a little scripture study and a loooot of prayer can do :)

Squashmore.

So i looked online today at my schedule, and it said 

LeBaron, Brooke Marie - [brookele] - 27 Mar 1991 - Female -

 Sophomore - Non-Employee  

did you catch that?

let me hit you with that ooone more time...

LeBaron, Brooke Marie - [brookele] - 58-461-5904 - 27 Mar 1991 -

 Female - Sophomore - Non-Employee  

HOLY SMOKERS! I'M A SQUASHMORE! AGAIN!

so it got me thinking...a lot has happened since my 

last squashmore year.

I've got a TON of new friends

i've had a LOT of neat-o experiences

and hey, life just, happened. 

Here's a look back on some of the great times i've 

had since my last squashmore year.

Went to some awesome dances!

played a lot of soccer

Saw some cool bridges and stuff...

Went to my first high school dance, Prom

Went indoor skydiving!

Played the cello.

Made some new fantastic friends...

and said goodbye to great old ones...

went to a place that 60 years ago nobody wanted to enter, and where many did not leave.

Seen things that no longer exist

Almost touched the alps!

Kept playing the cello...

Went to the place Mozart was born...

...and the place Haydn was "burried"

Took up YOGA!

Been to the Blue Danube

and to the underground caves

...kept, playing the cello.

found the best group of girlfriends anyone could have

...and kept one best friend.

made it till the last day of my first year of high school...

...and ditched for the first time! :)

Played my cello all the way to All State a couple times.

Graduated from Seminary!

Graduated from High School!

and enjoyed life to its fullest.