This past weekend I flew up to Frisco for 24 hours for my friend Nattie's Bridal Shower. We were roommates in college at Tech and she was also in my wedding! I had been looking forward to this weekend for quite some time since I have not seen her or our other friends that live in Frisco since a trip Brad & I made there last May.

I got in about 7 am on Saturday and we headed straight to Natties house to get everything together for the Bridal Brunch. Nattie is so crafty and had such cute things set up. 

Some of the tasty goodies for the brunch. 

Mimosa Bar!

These juices were so good. I of course had ZERO champagne.

Miss Jayda & I(We went to Tech together also.)

The bride in white and the bridesmaids.

Bride-to-be!!

Sweet bride posing with my gift I got her. 

After the shower festivities I went with Jayda to Denton to meet up with our other friend from college, Natalie. We headed for a night of Sushi at Mr. chopsticks and Sundaes at The Square. 

The weather was beautiful so we rode with the top down. 

Miss Natalie and I

I had the absolute best 24 hours I had in awhile and was so glad to catch up with these ladies. I am so excited I get to see them in just 2 weeks again for my baby shower!!


Brad, my parents, and I will be traveling back up to Dallas for me to be in her wedding June 26th. We are all going and bringing my packed hospital bags just in case miss thing decides to make an early 36 1/2 week appearance. You never know how my body or her will react with the 4 hour road trip and tons of dancing.

Last trip to Lubbock before our little.

On Friday we made our journey up to Lubbock for our last free for all with friends before Brynn makes her appearance. I can't believe we already only have 14 weeks left so we are calming down our travels a bit to prepare. 

We stayed the weekend with our friends Eli and Ashley to celebrate her early birthday since we won't be able to be there on Easter. Our weekend was mainly focused around food and shopping that we have missed out on. Typical right. 

-Of course our absolute first stop on Friday night was Steak 'n Shake. I got the Chocolate Banana shake and Brad got the Cookies 'n Cream. 

-On Saturday the boys headed to the Texas Tech Spring Football Game and us girls started our shopping trip. Getting coffee before you shop is always a must. Decaf for me please! 

We stopped off at La Madeline for lunch and it was a good different meal than what we always get. It reminds me a lot of McAlister's, even though nothing trumps McAlister's Chicken Salad Sandwich. Our shopping trip was quite the success for my baby shower dress, clothes for Brynn, pillows for her nursery and of course some random nonsense I really did didn't need. 

I mean looks at Ash's miss smarty pants pup… Cute or what?!

This is Addie ladies and gents.

For dinner we met up with Brads best friend Kolby and his girlfriend Rema for Hibachi at Hayashi. We didn't sit at a table where they cook in front of you because we are way too classy and needed our own room ;)

We had to end our Saturday night catching up on Scandal. That show quite frankly runs our lives from time to time.

-On Sunday Ash and I woke up bright and early to go get donuts and kolaches from Rise 'n Shine. YUM is all I have to say. I hadn't had donuts in so long and they hit the spot. We made our stop by Red Raider Outfitters to check out the latest and greatest before leaving town. Brynn and I lucked out :)

You know I can't go without a lavender Tech shirt. 

-On another note, while we were away our beautiful fur baby Allie turned 1 year old! I remember bringing her home at 5 weeks and how tiny she was. She weighs in at 5.5 pounds of pure sweetness.

I hope all of you sweeties have a wonderful week!

Liebster Award/11 Random Facts

Thank you to this sweet thing Jocelyn over at The Life of a Pretty Lucky Mama, I was nominated by her for the Liebster Award! I have been semi-MIA from the blog world so am thankful for email notifications so I could know about this! You guys gotta go check out her blog, she has the cutest mini!

The Rules

Thank the person who nominated you and link them in your post. 

Tell 11 random facts about yourself.

Answer the 11 questions provided by the person who nominated you.

Choose 11 blogs you like and link them in your post. 

Write 11 questions for these bloggers, so they can answer them. 

Go to their page and let them know that you nominated them.

11 Random Facts About Me

1. I love a slice of colby jack cheese on top of those sandwich sliced pickles. Yes, even before I was pregnant. 

2. I love anything the color mint. 

3. I have two half brothers, but who am I kidding they are my brothers no matter the different moms. 

4. I love front doors. I will have either a really pretty wooden one with the glass or some crazy color!

5. I have my one fur baby of my own , but we have two pups and one cat at my moms too. Prince was actually mine when I went to college at Tech. Why I got a dog when I was so busy? He was just too cute.

6. HGTV has my heart.

7. My dad did all my science projects growing up. I mean I helped kinda, but he has millions of good ideas. 

8. I went to Tech my first semester out of high school(August) and came home in October to just return again a year later. Good thing I did since I et my sweet hubs. 

9. I could eat Papa Johns Pizza with that Garlic Butter Sauce EVER-Y-DAY!

10. I still have way too many "club" clothes in my closet from college. Time to do a clean sweep. 

11. I went to Cosmetology school in High School and did hair for 5 years. 

11 Questions for me

1. What is your favorite thing about blogging?

How many awesome people you meet. The blog world is a small world. You get to connect with different types of people and ones that are just like you! It's nice to have a place to unload your thoughts.

2. If you won the mega millions jackpot what is the first thing you would buy?

A home and each of us a car! Yep, pretty simple, but we talk about just the way we want our dream home and cars all the time. 

3. What is your go to comfort food?

PIZZA!

4. Would you rather have a closest full of amazing clothing or a drawer full of your favorite makeup?

Oh, clothing for sure. I honestly am not too savvy at makeup. lol

5. As a child what did you want to be when you grew up?

A Social Worker. I semi did that major I suppose with a teaching twist.

6. What would you say is your special talent?

Hair I suppose. I can do a mean fade. :)

7. What fashion trend do you wish would go away?

Crop tops. I used to wear them in College and whyyyyy? I literally don't know what to do with all of them. 

8. What is your favorite season and why?

Summer! It's warm, I can lay out, and it's my birthday!

9. If you could have a shopping spree at any store what would it be?

I really do love Dillards. I would need to go to one in a big city though.

10. What is your favorite tv show?

Right now, I would say Revenge.

11. Disneyland or DisneyWorld and why?

DisneyWorld. I have never been to DisneyLand or California so I can't really compare the two. One day we will go! My moms family live in Florida and Brad is from Florida so DisneyWorld is always go to. 

My 11 Nominees

Kat at Fourteen Five

Alec at Life as we know it

Marie at Candidly Marie

Aspen at Makeover with Aspen

Kelsey at Kelsey Denae

Eliza at Joy Bound

Fal at Fal Finds Happiness 

Darby at Life with the Hawleys

Elizabeth at The Bradleys

Megan at Hello Newlywed LIfe

Vett at Real College Student of Atlanta

My 11 Questions for you

1. What is your favorite blog?

2. Do you prefer lifestyle, style, or food blogs?

3. What is your favorite fashion statement out right now?

4. What is one of your favorite days?

5. What are your 2014 goals?

6. What is your favorite piece of jewelry?

7. What is your favorite clothing store?

8. What is one thing you will teach/tell your children?

9. What is one thing you have always wanted to do?

10. Would you sky dive?

11. What is the best place you have visited?

Hope you guys have fun and enjoy this! I am a sucker for things like this! 

All Things Good

1. Girls nights! I am so blessed to have met two girls here, Sara and Pia, that I can have girls nights with. I have always struggled when coming to a new country that I will miss my family and friends so terribly and that I would be bored. Honestly, every place I have gone God places that one or few special people in my life to remind how awesome he is and how he will never let me down. Who am I to think God wants me to be bored? Silly me! So on Saturday the boys were gone for an out of town basketball game as I had talked about in my last post and so we decided to get together. We watched The Internship and let me say hi-lar-ious! Definitely a must see if you love a good comedy. Lets be honest you can't have a complete girls nights without tons of snacks. Well heres some pictures of our menu that night.

Baked Zucchini tossed in olive oil, pepper and salt. Then dusted with some parmesan. Bake for 25-30 min. on 350(175 celsius)

 Chicken Nachos: ginger chicken, peppers, tomato, a creme and hot sauce mix, pineapple, cheese

Fruit, Chocolate and chips w/ queso

2. Cooking! I was not always blessed with the cooking & baking skill. I was thrown into it when moving to Spain. I mean as we all know Brad needs to eat and can't afford to lose weight so I MUST cook a good filling meal every breakfast, lunch and dinner. I won't toot my own horn or anything, but I'm quite impressive in the kitchen. I made three of our favorites this past week. Goulash, Chicken Enchiladas with Sour Cream White Sauce and for dessert Banana Pudding. You can see pictures & recipes here. 

3.Basketball! Boy am I glad it is season again! Brad had his first home game last night against Tampere. They sadly ended in a loss 86-94, but it all in all was a great game. Brad ended with 20 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist. He was the high scorer of the night of his team and so he even got a prize. They will play again on Saturday in a city that is about an hour or so away so I am able to ride with some other girls to the game. Once again so thankful for them! Here is a picture/video from his game:

4.Nail Time! I really do have quite a bit of time on my hands, but never find time to just sit and relax to do my nails good instead of fast with lumps and crap. Well, I made myself make time to do them good and I am so glad. I literally brought like 20 nail polish colors so I better use them all right? 

China Glaze- Peach Keen

5.Teaching English! As of today I am officially a course leader and English teacher here in Lapua. I got hired through a company based out of Finland called Speaking Out. I start my training in about a week or so. It's really nice that they take the time to train everyone that works for them so we are all kind of teaching the same things with our own personal twist. They even mail us all the materials so I don't have to go find my own. I found it tough in Spain and in Czech to find the materials since anything English is very sparse. Once I finish training I will go out to the schools/nurseries here in the town and talk to the principals and head masters to spark up interest about me starting groups. I get to make my own hours which is the most awesome job yet! I've always taught hour classes so it'll be refreshing to do just 30-45 minutes with each group so no one gets bored. I will have groups with the ages 3-6 and then different groups for 7-12 years old. Anywho, I am so pumped! I went to school to teach and it's all I've wanted to do for so long and I get to do it while my husband does what he loves. It's a win win! 

6. Exploring! Today I had to go to the doctor so Brad and I took out some time to walk around our bitty town and take some pictures and just emerge ourselves in the gorgeous chilly weather! I'll let the photos do the talking :) 

Soccer Field across the street from our apartment

This is outside of our kitchen window

Hello beautiful leaves!

A little park area downtown

This is an old bullet factory that blew up, but they keep a library and museum inside. 

And, of course a selfie ;)

7.Genesis Pure! We got an awesome goodie box from my mom yesterday and it had some new and old but great genesis pure products in it. I am still the biggest fan of the Go-Yin. It's a mixture of super fruits and all natural for some energy and feel good. The new product I got is Mila. I added it to on top of my pizza I had today and couldn't even tell that there were some chia seeds on there. It was still tasty as ever. To learn more about Mila check here.

Last, for a bit of spread out randomness I found the cutest way to tie a scarf you can find here. Also, I have begun to learn that the devil sometimes sets things in motion in our lives that are meant to distract and break us. It will speak fear into you and try to tear you down. When you keep strong in the word and keep your faith that God knows what he is doing and has it handled for you, you can do it all! Psalms 41,42 and 43 really helped me today and maybe it'll help one of you. 

xo Brooke