It Makes My Apartment Smell Mossy

So people have been asking lately (cough - :) Ellen) why I haven't been updating my blog lately. Well I haven't updated it in a while because the only things I have had on my mind were things like school, up coming test, my internships and trying to keep up on those, and not having enough time to get anything done. So I didn't want to get on my blog and whine about those things. Even while I was I was trying to think of a title to start my blog off with I couldn't think of anything great to say!! So what popped into my head was mine and Brighton's new favorite movie, You've Got Mail. That movies has been on TV a couple of times and we love it. Well it is more like Brighton loves that movie and I love watching him quote it and laugh really hard at it. I wish everybody had a chance to watch Brighton laugh really hard. It is the funniest thing out there. And the move You've Got Mail makes him laugh really hard. He doesn't laugh hard at the movie he laughs really hard with the movie. It is so fun to watch movies like that with him. I would like to say that I have a video of him doing it but it is really hard to plan something like that out. But maybe one day. When he laughs really hard it is a loud (no surprise there) and really high pitched laugh. It is the cutest thing EVER and I don't think he even knows that he is doing it which makes it even funnier.

Here is to the cutest husband EVER who can help me laugh and forget all of the things I stress about!

Theres some things that money won't pay for......

Separated shoulder Thanksgiving Day: Emergency Room Visit 3hrs
Sliced open finger Easter Morning: Non insurance - butterfly strips, fasting and prayer
Torn ACL: Merry Christmas I

Elbow to the face: Welcome to basketball season

Toe with potential infection: Merry Christmas II


Living with Brighton (and having insurance): Priceless!!!!

Canada part B (finally)

So I have finally finished all of my projects for the semester and just about to start studying for my finals. But I thought I could at least up date my blog. For my own sake. :) Here are the rest of the pictures from Canada.


Just a pretty picture of Canada and a sailing boat.

We went to a small river where the salmon were laying their eggs. There were huge fish there and a lot of people fishing. Here is a picture of one of the fishes that was caught. And all of the fishes were this big. They were in groups of 8 and the river was tiny! I could have walked across and barley get my knees wet.
We went to a marker that had grass on the roof and goats living up there. We didn't see any goats because it was raining but still.... Goats, on a roof?
Honestly, no jumping.
For those of you who know me well, I LOVE cheese. So we went to a cheese factory. It was a small place but really cool. We bought some curds and they were delicious!
This was a suspension bridge we went to. The whole time you walked across it, it swayed! It was awesome. And it was a huge drop. It is one of the longest suspension bridges in the world.
After you cross the huge suspension bridge, there were a bunch of little suspension bridges hanging from tree to tree. It was in a rain forest so it was beautiful and I have never seen anything like it in my life. The trees there were amazing, huge, and mossy. I think we should have trees like that in Utah.
Even though it was cold outside, we had to get some ice cream. We sat at a park, which overlooked the bay, and ate our ice cream. People were looking at us funny but, hey we got to eat our ice cream. As you can tell though, it was a fairly sunny day.
This was our first time ever seeing a light house in person. They are pretty cool.
This was our fairy ride. It was sunny but a little bit cold. I have never been on a fairy before but they are very entertaining. It is fascinating to think that they fit all of ours cars on there. I might just be naive but I didn't know that fairies carried our cars to the main land until the day we got on the fairy. Wow I am really naive.
Here was one of the many pictures of water falls that we took. Since there are a lot of rain forests there are a lot of water falls.
Here is Brighton and I holding up a tree. We let everybody pass and then we let it go. When those things fall they are deadly. We saw a tree that was older then Columbus. It was crazy huge. Utah has nothing in trees compared to Canada.
Ya! Kind of scary! I think the last one they had was in '94? I can't remember.
Here is another picture of water and the rain forest.
Here is an Eagle feeding Brighton. We went to a wild animal refuge and saw some amazing animals. We saw some cubs, bald eagles, doves, swans, and more. But my favorite was one of the bald eagles. It had been shot in the wing so they could not let it out in the wild anymore. So the feeder lady was feeding it raw meat and we got to watch her. We were maybe about a foot away from her and the bald eagle was AMAZINGLY beautiful. I am actually really glad that we have it as out country's bird. It is a fascinating bird.



This was our last night there and we were pretty tired. As you can tell there is only one other group of people in the restaurant. Brighton decided that he would do a little dance for our last night there. This is one of my favorite videos because this is Brighton to a T. This is why I love him. You can here me in the background laughing a tired laugh. Even though I may be tired he always has the energy to do something crazy.

Ode to Susan Shepard

1. BSI
2. Is it safe?
3. MOI/NOI
4. # of patients
5. Gut feeling
6. "Hi my name is Brooke, I know first Aid. Can I help you?".......

This is 1/10th of the reasons why I have not updated my blog in a while. The other reasons consist of working 40hrs a week, taking 16 semester credit hours, working an additional 10 hours a week at my internship site, and I use to have a 1st Aid lab Friday nights from 6pm to 9pm. I am now officially certified in 1st Aid. So if anybody ever needs 1st Aid help, please....feel free to call. That is if I am home. :)


P.S. I will update more about Canada.........................Soon.

Fall Break 2008 - Canada (a)

This year for fall break Brighton and I went to Canada with Brighton's parents. We spent a whole week there and had an awesome time! Canada was so beautiful and I am missing it already. We got there late Sunday night, slept in Monday morning, and relaxed most of the day. It was raining Monday and Canada's Thanksgiving, so we visited the Mall, the beach, the visitors center, and learned British Columbia's roads. This is a picture from the first day and it is of the waterfall right out side of our hotel balcony.

This is a picture of a beach we went to. It was raining while we were there but it was so gorgeous!! The ocean was everywhere (I guess because we were on an island) and it never ceased to take my breath every. Even in the rain.

Totem polls are everywhere in British Columbia and this was our first encounter with one. I think Brighton and his dad are doing a sweet job to try and look like the totem poll.

On Tuesday the rain had let up and the day was perfect. We went to the Butchart Gardens which are gardens that more then 100 yrs old. Unfortunately, my camera battery died 20 minutes after we got there!! So I have a couple pictures on my digital camera and the rest are on a disposable camera. I am going to get them on a CD because Butchart Gardens was one of my favorite places we visited and I want to share the pictures!! This picture is of the entrance to the gardens. It was how it was October and they still had a lot of flowers blooming!

After this picture is when our camera battery sign started flashing however, we still got a couple more pictures in. This place was called the hanging gardens. This picture does not do it justice but I hope you get at least glimpse of what we saw.

I took a picture of these flowers at Butchart Gardens because I planted some of them in a flower pot I have here. However, mine have died already and their's are still flourishing. I was trying to take notes.

Later that day we went to downtown Victoria and the saw the Parliament building and walked the streets. While we were walking we saw this awesome street sign. (For any of you who don't know, my maiden name is Yates.) What are the odds there's a Yates street in Victoria?

If that wasn't cool enough there was also a Yates Street Shoes there also. However, we did not go in. I do not need any more shoes. These were the last pictures taken before our camera battery died. The next day we got our camera battery charged for $7.00 at the mall so I am still missing another days worth of pictures.

However, do not worry I still have a lot of pictures to show. Our adventure does not stop there. But it will continue on another day. I have a lot of homework to do and way too many pictures to share. But I thought I would at least get our Canada adventure going...

to be continued...

What have you done today, to make you feel proud.

The title is the quote from the Biggest Loser. Unfortunately I did not like the Biggest Loser this Tuesday. There was WAY too much drama going on. It was fairly dissapointing. One reason I like the show is because there is no drama between contestants. But there was this week. Lame!!!
Here is a converstation that Brighton and I had...

Brooke: Man there was way too much drama this week on the Biggest Loser. I felt like it was a waste of two whole hours!!!

Brighton: You know you wouldn't have missed the episode for anything. You have to watch all of the episodes.

Brooke: Sigh, you right. I would have died if I missed an episode. It better not be like this next week. Those lame people need to get voted off.

So we shall see what happens next week on the Biggest Loser.

Monday Monday, La Da La Da Da

For a Monday my day went fairly well. Other then the fact that I was seven minutes late to work and I didn't go to class my day was great. We had a rep who sells glasses come into work and he brought my office bagels! My office consist of five people (including me) and there were twelve bagels. I think I ate 2 1/2 bagels. Nummy Nummy. I did not pack lunch so that made it twice as good. Then since I didn't go to class I got an extra hour of work time in. Work was not slow but not busy, the Spring 2009 class schedule came out and it looks like I am on track to graduate next spring (YEA!!!!!), class registration dates came out and I can register for Spring classes on November 11 at 7:00am, I am all caught up on work things, and my internship for school called and said that they have a schedule worked out for me. Ya!! So many things going right especially school stuff is nothing short of a blessing. I am so grateful. And then when I got home from work Brighton made the most delicious hamburgers and home made fries. MMM meals like that those are some of the reasons I love food! We then watched some football and played monopoly. I lost at monopoly but Brighton was nice enough to let some of his hotels be considered "free spaces" for me. That way he didn't slaughter me. What a fun way to spend FHE. :) I hope every body has as great of a Monday as I did. If not here is a little story (that is true) which happened at work. I hope it will make you laugh.
Some boy (who's name I will leave anonymous), about the age of 14 or 15, was sitting next to our Oakley Sunglass display case. Now Oakley glasses range from $250.00 up to $400.00 so they are not cheap glasses. This kid was being funny and joking around while his mom was trying on glasses and it was kind of funny to watch him. They were the only customers in the store so they were being kind of loud, which I did not mind at all, when all of the sudden the kid sneezes. I look up at him and he had sneezed ALL OVER the Oakley display case. Have you ever sneezed in your hand or on something? Picture that all over this glass window!! It was pretty nasty. They kid just laughed and his mother got mad. She mad him wipe it up with a tissue which only smeared everything around. When I left work it still looked really nasty all over the glass. Poor janitor in the morning. Aren't you grateful you don't have that job. :) Now when I think about that story it makes me chuckle. The story is funny in it's own sorta weird way. HAHA
To end on a great note, Happy Monday!!