I'm Back World!

Hello.
I know it's been forever since I've written. Summer was completely busy, but I'm sure the school year will be even busier. With college classes and Chemistry already started, and basketball practice coming in less than 2 months, yes, it'll only get busier from here. But now that we're here, I thought I'd reminisce in summer vacation memories and photos.

Rocking chairs!

This is the house in North Carolina we stayed at. It was nice, and overlooked lots of mountains and trees.

 Earlier this year I went tubing a billion (Okay, maybe like 5) times on youth trip. Ever since then I kind of loved tubing... and on a freezing lake surrounded by mountains, it was fun. Here I am about to stand up, which I eventually completed, but sadly only got blurry pictures of.

I also went zip lining. Which was way too short, but awesome. The only scary part was when I was standing up on a platform, 40 ft in the air, and the guide says 'Okay, just jump off'... and I probably gave her a strange look.

Besides that, we also went white water rafting on the Nantahala river.  Rafting is exciting, and wet. 

...and after the mountains, we settled in Atlanta, GA for a couple of days. It rained too much for good pictures, but the city was pretty fun.

And here we are now, a few weeks later, sitting at home blogging while I'm supposed to be studying Chemistry. I can find every reason in the world not to do Chemistry today. I even went on a run in 90 degree weather... because seriously, who want to memorize the periodic table when there's so many better things to do with you time? To quote my chemistry teacher, "You'll use the periodic table in whatever career you go into as long as it's not something like History or Journalism." Oh great. If you didn't already know, I'm planning on studying journalism. I can see I have a bright future ahead of me. ;)

*Brooke*

Today Is The Day.

Guess what ya'll?! It's my blogiversary! Exactly 365 days ago from today, I started this blog. 140 posts later, here we are. Sure, I haven't posted much in the last few months, but we still made it. And that's what matters! Who's up for a trip down memory lane? * Click on the highlight words for past posts *

I started blogging on July 7, 2012. The day after I started my blog I posted about the new stuff I got for my room, including colored whiteboards.  364 days later, the white boards are still in my closet... in other words, they haven't actually been put up yet...

After a little bit I had my fun Summer Time posts.

In August I posted about my Journaling Obsession. It still exists, and it's bigger than ever. It's become a huge life consuming obsession since then. I'm majorly addicted to journaling...

Eventually I started my 15 Before 15 series.

By September I had a happy day. A happy day where I got a Britt Nicole CD. Then I had an even more exciting day when I went to her concert! :D

Soon enough Christmas arrived, along with all the fabulous Christmas music and Christmas posts.

But let's not forget the possibly most scarry day in all of history... the day I got my driver's permit.

January 1st came, and the New Year dawned.

And after about 6 months of some random posts about random topics, we ended up here, today.

Happy Blogging World! It's been fun ;)

<3, Brooke

When You Have Too Much Time...

...you paint your nails.

Nails #1:

NYC Skyline Blue Nail Enamel

Brash White Nail Polish

a. Paint your nails with a base coat

b. Add a flower and dots on your 4th nail(which ended up looking more like snowflakes rather than flowers...)

c. Finish with a top clear coat

Nails #2:

NYC Skyline Blue Nail Enamel

Maybelline Color Show Navy Narcissist

Brash White Nail Polish

a. Paint your nails white

b. Paint your nails the medium shade starting about 1/3 of your nail up.

c. Paint your nails the darkest shade 2/3 of your nail up.

d. Finish with a top clear coat

Nails #3:

Brash White Nail Polish

Brash Black Nail Polish

NYC Skyline Blue Nail Enamel

Sinful Colors Hazard

a. Paint your nails white

b. Make messy dots with the color of your choice. Wait till dry and do the other 2 colors.

c. Finish with a top clear coat

*Brooke*

What Today Looked Like.

I'm Reading: Dragons In Our Midst. I'm working on the 4th book, Tears of a Dragon. They're so good! I don't want them to end, but I really want to get to the end... if that makes any sense at all. I have some catching up to do. If you've never read them, you've got to! In my opinion, my favorite was the 3rd, but read them in order. It's worth getting there.

I'm Listening to: Reliant K - Be My Escape. I heard the song for the first time ever today, and I listened to it, oh, I don't know... 15 times or so? It's so cool. The lyrics are really good. Besides that song, I've also heard random bits of Britt Nicole and Royal Tailor.

I'm Learning (On Guitar): Strangely Dim by Francesca Battistelli. The chords are easy enough to play, and it's pretty fun.

I'm Wearing: A neon yellow top, dark blue jean shorts, and diamond stud earrings. My nails are painted sky blue.

I'm Eating: These wonderful brownie, marshmallow fluff, peanut butter, rice krispy things. I don't know what they're called, but imagine brownie dough layered with that stuff. They were good.

I'm Wishing: That I could find my camera. It just disappeared on me today, and so that explains why this post remains photo-less. 

*Brooke*

Summer Photo Challenge

I've been wanting to do a photo challenge forever, and I've finally decided I'm just going to do it. I got this one off Pinterest. Every so often I'll post my photos from these days so you can see my progress. I think it'll be lots of fun! If you do a photo challenge this summer, I'd love to hear about it! Oh, and by the way, I'm starting this one tomorrow even though it is designed for July. It doesn't hurt to start early. ;)

*Brooke*

Pink Flowers

*Brooke*

Disney

I don't care how old I am. I'll always love going to Disney. This past week my family and I took an unexpected trip to all 4 of their parks, and I had an awesome time. Some of the highlights of my trip included:

-Getting new Nike's!

-Eating in 7 different countries in Epcot

-Riding Thunder Mountain 4 times, and Kali River Rapids 7

-Eating wonderful soft serve ice cream

-Staying at the theme parks from opening, to closing 

-Eating out at Sweet Tomatoes!

-Shopping at Downtown Disney (more like looking...)

-Watching the American Idol Experience (the best part is when they shower the winner in glittery confetti)

-Listening to music on the car ride

-Riding all the other rides, watching all the shows, and eating all the other good food. ;)

So yes, I had a great time. It was really nice to escape all the Spanish assignments I'm supposed to be finishing, and instead hang out at Disney... 

Have an awesome week everyone!

*Brooke*