This I love...

I don't have my own, so I enjoy Jackson! :)

"Hello Bombshell"

A few months ago Victoria Secret came out with their latest life changing bra, the only difference.... This one really is! I knew I couldn't try it because then I would REALLY want it. Well I finally gave into temptation and decided to try it on. It was love at first wear, at that moment I knew I needed it. Well much to my dismay these amazing things cost an arm and a leg.... $50! YIKES! Sadly I put my new "bosom buddy" (HAHA! That is funny) down and left a very sad Brooke. Lucky for me I work at a credit union, no I didn't decided to steal the money, but open a share titled "Bombshell". Ten dollars from my paycheck gets put into that account almost as soon as I'm paid. After my first paycheck in March I will be marching right down to my neighborhood Victoria Secret and purchasing said bra!

Will I look like that in my bra?! Absolutely NOT! Will I be the happiest girl in America?! Most likely! :)

Things on my mind...

I know, I've been on a blogging hiatus. Unfortunately I don't have any good reason, other then I feel like nothing of consequence is going on in my life. I go to school Monday through Thursday by 7:00 a.m., yes seven, and also Tuesday and Thursday from 11:00 to 12:20. (fun lunch uh?!) I'm still working 40 hours a week. Naturally that doesn't leave much time to do other fun things... I wish I had something oh so excited to blog about, but alas I do not. So, I will blog about the boring things going on in my life. The real life, the not so glamorous things in everyday life. Now no one can complain about how boring their life is....
-Money has been tight lately! And by tight I mean, tighter then a fat person in spandex! I think I've made it through my biggest expenses, but I'm incredibly depressed every time I look at my account. I think I need to seriously revisit a budget, and pray that I'll win the lottery.
-I feel so blessed to have work right now, not only work, but a job that I really do enjoy. Things aren't perfect there, and there is one thing that could make it better, but I choose to ignore the Village Idiot most days.
-Yesterday Verizon Wireless sent me over the edge, I did something I've never done. I called the customer service department and vented my frustration. I know I can be an outspoken person, but when I'm upset I have a hard time getting myself to say something. So it felt oh so good to say something yesterday! Good job Brooke.
-I feel like I live alone right now, which makes me sad, but I'm grateful I have a house. Actually in general I feel quite alone. I feel like I'm in need of a special someone, wither that means a best friend or a boyfriend. It's ok though, I'm praying for someone and I'll take whatever I'm given. I know prayers are answered.
-I love the pink, red, and hearts that are every where right now, not because I like Valentine's day, but because it signifies my day of birth! In case you didn't know I L-O-V-E my birthday... I just need something to do now.
-Haiti.... breaks my little heart.
-I've decided that I'm quite a sass. Not because of my attitude, but because of my clothes. Judge me if you'd like for being self confident, maybe even a tad arrogant, but I decided this week I really like my clothes. It's joy in the simple things in life right?
-Math is a real struggle this semester... the fact that's it's at 7am doesn't help, but I think my teacher is 101 years old. I concentrate so much on the fact that he is still living that I tend to not absorb the information being presented. Moving on to English there are so REAL characters in there. I think 90% of my class decided to try college out the day class started. Which kind of makes me mad. I had to take a placement test to get into English 1010, I didn't score high enough so I had to take Writing 990. How did these crazies place into that class!? BOO!
-I did something brave, three weeks ago. I finally told Kason I couldn't be even a friend to him anymore. It's so hard letting go of people who have met so much to you. Kason was my first real love and moving on has been a task. Sometimes to move forward we have to be willing to let go 100%. I wish him nothing but the best in life.
-I feel very grateful for my friends. Life has taken us all in very different ways, and it's incredible to me how close most of us have stayed. We've lost one, but I think it's been her loss not ours.
-Anyone has Haggerman's sugar cookies!? Yum-e!
-I recently found a quote that I really like, nay love, "We are only as happy as we make up our minds to be." Abe Lincoln.
-I'm terribly self conscious of my spelling. I've never been to good at it.
-Why is it that my bronzer, hairspray, and toothpaste all run out on the same day?! :(
This is it folks, all I have to offer!

My Bentley filled weekend...

What did I do with a four day weekend? I found out what it was like to be a parent... Friday morning Heidi was scheduled to have her baby, so Thursday night I headed to her house to sleepover so they could leave EARLY. Thus being a parent comes into play. I had James and Josh from there on out, until today. They were such good boys for me and I LOVED having them. (I'm actually a little sad tonight not having them around.) Due to flu season the boys didn't get to meet their new little brother until today when he came home, but they were so cute, and SO excited all weekend. We kept ourselves busy with coloring, decorating, visits to the hospital (even though we couldn't see Jackson), trips to Grandma's, sleepover with Aiden and Andrew, and so forth. I really did have so much fun with those boys and couldn't love them anymore.

The newest Bentley, Jackson Frank Bentley, he is pretty darn cute!
Saturday Brad took the boys for a while, so I headed to the hospital so I could spend sometime with Heidi and baby. I'm pretty sure I over stayed my welcome, but I just couldn't get enough of baby Jackson. I did give Heidi a good foot and leg rub, so maybe that counteracts my overstayed welcome?

I think all of us didn't get enough sleep all weekend. Every time we would stop moving for 5 minutes or more those boys were out, I guess it could just be that I'm pretty fun! We colored pictures for Heidi and took them to the hospital so we could give them to her. The boys were so cute, they drew pictures of themselves so they could give them to baby Jackson so he could see what they looked like.

I had the time of my life with those boys, and am thankful for the health of both Heidi and Jackson.

Ode to my Mother.

Since Monday I've been fighting being sick, today it hit full force, to make matters worse today is my day off. Who wouldn't want to spend a day off sick in bed?! Being sick and home alone is zero fun, which brings me to the point of this blog post. Growing up I had the mother of all mother's. When we were sick she would drop everything to take care of us. Today I'm missing that. It's amazing how feel good foods magical appeared, laundry got it's self done, and the clean up cleaned it's self. Okay, I realize that was all my mother's doing. I'm thankful for all the endless hours she spent taking care of sick kids, and being a perfect mom!

Thanks Mom!

The Cupcake Challenge

We take working very seriously! However one occasion everyone needs to play... so I invented the cupcake challenge. What's the challenge you ask? Eating an entire cupcake in one bite. Meagan failed miserably, Zach did pretty good, Chris made us all look bad.
This posses the question.... Working hard? Or Hardly working?


* Side note: I did participate in my own game, we just didn't take pictures. I did complete the challenge successfully.

The Bright Side...

I've decided to have a theme for 2010, drum roll please.......... "The Bright Side". Things aren't always perfect in life, but I do think everything in life has a bright side. For the year 2010 I'm going to choose to find the bright in things! Here's to New Year's resolutions, 2010, and The Bright Side!

"A weary world rejoices!"

I can hardly believe that it's the 20th of December! I can remember as child thinking how long it took the days of December to pass. Today as I think about it already being the 20th my heart hurts a little. Where did the month go? I feel I've hardly felt the spirit of Christmas and it's been my own selfish fault.
This month I've been so caught up in dating woes, work drama, and trying my best to make it to the end of a school semester, I've hardly even remembered we are in the Christmas season. Although I've missed out on so much of the Christmas magic, one thing has spoken to me all season. Every time I hear the song "Oh Holy Night" the line "A weary world rejoices" has stuck out to me. There have been many times at work that I'm caught up in the hustle and bustle and I will suddenly hear that line, instantly my mind thinks of a new born babe laying in a manger.
I love the picture that the line has brought to my mind throughout the season. I can almost envision lost and weary people needing something more in their lives. Through the birth of our Savior there was hope and something more... I need to personally remember that more in my own life. Although things aren't perfect in my life I do have the greatest gift of them all, a Savior. And for that I'm very thankful.
I hope that everyone has a very Merry Christmas and will continue to rejoice!

ONE HAPPY BROOKE!

I'M DONE, DONE, DONE WITH SCHOOL FOR THE SEMESTER!!!! I MADE IT! :)

Instead of Church....

We....

• watched Tinkerbell & Peter Pan
• snuggled
• laid around in our P.J.'s
• took naps
• bathed
• ate lunch
• blogged
• facebooked
• enjoyed NOT being at church... Can I say that?! ;)
  

Bake Day...

One of my favorite Christmas traditions.... bake day. All the Jensen women get together and bake cookies, bake more cookies, and then bake even more cookies..... Final count 2,025!

This is L-O-V-E!

It was a wedding for the ages! My best friend Meagan married her man Chris on December 3rd, and trust me, you could feel how in love they are with each other. I've never seen Meagan so happy, and I couldn't have hand picked a better husband for her. Their day was magical, and I feel very blessed to have been a part of it. I wish them nothing but the best and couldn't physically be any happier for them. I can't wait to one day have what they share! CONGRATS YOU TWO!

And they lived happily ever after....

Meagan got her fairy tale ending! :)

Thanksgiving...Marathon Shopping...Work....

Thanksgiving dinner with the Jensen side of the family. As always the Dodee food was delicious, the company was great, and I was thankful to have both! Apparently I'm the giant in the family, I think these pictures prove my point.
A plan was born..... we decided to be crazies and pull an all nighter of shopping knowing darn well that I had nine hours of work the following day. Were we crazy...YES!!!!

First stop of the night... New Moon. I'm in no way into the Twilight sagas, but I choose Team Jacob! HELLO BODY!!!! Our movie ended at 12:30 so we headed to SouthTowne Mall, we had no idea of what we were in for! It was the CRAZIEST thing I've ever seen in my entire life. We didn't really buy anything but it was worth the experience.... I did snap at Jenny and some lady thought I was a total crazy! I even ran into my dear friend Meagan and her man Chris!

After mall madness, we had to refuel our engines at Denny's. Diet Coke was the liquid of choice and a large amount was consumed. I made an extremely intoxicated friend who refused to leave me alone. He was a treat... NOT!!!!

After Denny's we had sometime to kill before Kohl's opened. So what does one do at 3:45 in the morning?! Visit the Temple of course! After the Temple it was off to Kohl's we were on a mission to obtain door busters, so I forgot to take a picture... but it was CRAZY!
Walmart, the definition of insanity! I don't think these pictures even begin to do it justice... this is when I really started to get tired, however being tired was NOT an option!
After Walmart was Target due to the fact that by this point I was delirious, I neglected to document that stop. Next Old Navy, I was so tired sick of shopping that I didn't even look at one thing.... I absolutely hit my wall... and I still had nine hours of work ahead of me!
After being up ALL night, it was off to work for nine hours. We decorated our branch for Christmas, I'll be honest the day was mostly a blur. I don't remember much of work, and I thank my lucky stars that my drawer balanced at the end of the day.
Everyone keeps asking me if it was worth staying up all night. If I didn't have to work the next day ABSOLUTELY, but seeing is that I did, and it was increidble miserable, maybe not.

Really Max? Really!?

"I don't like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, I hate their fans, I hate everything"
"I think the whole university, their fans, and their organization is classless. They threw beer on my family and stuff last year, and they did a whole bunch of nasty things, and I don't respect them. They deserve to lose."

Thank you Max Hall for in turn show us what "classless" means. I've heard for the last year how horrible Utah fans are, well thanks to The Almighty Max Hall BYU became no better then us last night. Aside from he fact that his comments were a total oxymoron, I have yet another reason to loath BYU. One bad expericnce taints an entire Universtiy, it's students, alumni, programs, and eveything else in between?

Apparently Max wasn't thinking of these people when he made his comments.....

Joseph B. Wirthlin
President Thomas S. Monson, President Gordon B. Hinckley, President James E. Faust

Once again, President Thomas S. Monson

Some other notable Alumni....
John S. Hunstman

David O. Mckay

Harold B. Lee

Russel M. Nelson

Stephen R. Covey

Henry Eyring

And last but not least.... BYU's president himself Cecil O. Samuelson

Thanks for keeping things classy Max! You sure proved us wrong.

"Becuase I Have Been Given Much"

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!