Check out the ears!

Robby did this ABSOLUTELY AWESOME picture of me! I LOVE IT!!!!























Thanks again!

Brooke Anna

The Long-Awaited New Post

Well... it seems that my adoring public is demanding a new post. My life must be more interesting than I thought.... though I can't deny, it is full of adventures and excitement.

Let's see... oh yes, I just got back from Frontier camp - a wonderful experience. I'm still somewhat suffering the after-effects though... (slept in til almost noon on Monday... I've never done that before and boy did it feel awesome!). Among my favorite activities were the water-weenie (get me to tell you my heroic story about that sometime), the mud-football game between my cabin and another girl cabin, and blacklight dodgeball (blacklights make everything that is white glow... and had nothing white on me except my eyes and teeth :)). Anyway, there were a total of 5 cabins (3 girls, 2 boys) and each cabin competed to win more points... (this could also be done with bible memory verses). We won the girls (we actually had more points than the guys' too, but they gave the boys a break, and Fannin cabing won the boys division). No doubt because we recited 603 bible verses in 2 days :) As reward for our hard work, the winning cabins got to stay up way past 12:00 on Friday night with pizza and ice-cream... fun, fun, fun... and the biggest, craziest game of Monkey-llama!

That will have to do for now... I have things to do :)

Brooke Anna

Grandma Hits Car

Brooke is loopy (getting ready for camp! yahoo!!!) - Proof:

I like dubbing pictures with captions! Mucho fun!!!











"...and keep those arrows out of my hair!"














"Made in Taiwan"
OR
"Who wrote "dwarves rule" on my bow?!"
OR
"Warning: not for use of children 2905 or under"













Elrond: wielder of the deadly Eyebrows.

"Havo dad, Legolas"







"I already have a dad, you meanie! What do you think I am? A dwarf!?"












"grrrrr...."















"Gimli! Come BACK HERE with my hair products and strawberry bubble bath. NOW!"

"Oh COME ON people! We're so close to being finished with the scene!"

"AND YOU, Peter Jackson, you know very well that my complexion will be completely ruined in this light!"

Elrond: "You ate the ring?" Pip: (embarassed)" heh heh"














"Tell me: does this hair style make me look like Eowyn?"

"Joining us on the ice tonight is Aragorn"

"RUN GUYS! I whole horde of fans are coming!!!"

"I'M SORRY LEGOLAS, I DIDN'T MEAN TO TAKE YOUR HAIR BRUSH!!!"

Brooke Anna

The Princess Bride

"Are you kidding? Fencing, Fighting, Torture, Revenge, Giants, Monsters, Chases, Escapes, True Love, Miracles!"

This is one of the absolute best movies ever!!!!

But...... it gets better....

My wonderful new friend, Darby Sproul, recently enlightened me to the fact that.....









The Princess Bride......











IS A REAL BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Of course, as soon as this was revealed to me, I got it from the library, read it in two nights, and am pleased to announce that it is....





TEN TIMES BETTER THAN THE MOVIE!!!!!!!


Shocking isn't it? Some of you, I'm sure, can't imagine what could be better than the movie... but I say once again: IT IS SO MUCH BETTER!!!!!

Thus, I charge you all with responsibility of getting your hands, eyes, and mind to this book. If you don't want to get it from the library, give me a month and I'll own it.... (I'd buy it right now, but I want to make sure I don't find it at the SETHSA booksale...)

Oh, and it's by, "William Goldman".... I think... something to that effect.

Also, I must give warning to all that the introduction has some...er.. "un-christian" content, so skip all that garbage and start reading at "Chapter One: The Bride"

It is even more romantic! Can you believe it?
















"Inconceivable!"















"As you wish"......... (*sigh*)















"I'm not saying I'd like to build a summer home here, but the trees are actually quite lovely"















"Let me put it this way: Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?" "Yes" "Morons"















"Move? You're alive! If you want, I can fly!'














Inigo: He's dead. He can't talk.
Max: Ooooohhh! Look who knows so much, eh! It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Please open his mouth. Now, mostly dead is slightly alive. Now, all dead...well, with all dead, there's usually only one thing that you can do.
Inigo: What's that?
Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change.... Hey! Hello in there! Hey! What's so important? Whatcha got here, that's worth living for? [Max pushes on Wesley's chest]
Wesley: True....love....
Inigo: True love! You heard him! You could not ask for a more noble cause than that.
Max: Sonny, true love is the greatest thing in the world; except for a nice MLT - mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich - when the mutton is nice and lean, and the tomato's ripe. They're so perky. I love that.















"Mawwiage. Mawwiage is what bwings us togethaw today. Mawwiage, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam within a dweam.......Then wove, twue wove, will follow you fowever......Have you the wing?"






















Inigo: He's climbing the rope....and he's gaining on us.
Vizzini: Inconceivable!....Faster!!
Fezzik: I thought I was going faster.
Vizzini: You were supposed to be this colossus, you were this great legendary thing and yet he gains!
Fezzik: Well, I'm carrying three people, and he got only himself.
Vizzini: I do not accept excuses! I'm just going to have to find myself a new giant, that's all.














"Bye bye, boys"
"Have fun storming the castle"
"Think it'll work?"
"It would take a miracle"
"Buh-bye!"

















"Drop your sword" (OH YEAH!!!!!!)

























"Since the invention of the kiss, there had been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind."

Miss Brooke Anna

ANOTHER belated Saturday Quote

This isn't exactly a quote, but it's good...

"Picture your flesh -- that old ego with the mentality of merit and craving for power and reputation and self-reliance -- picture it as a dragon living in some cave of your soul. Then you hear the gospel, and in it Jesus Christ comes to you and says, "I will make you mine and take possession of the cave and slay the dragon. Will you yield to my possession? It will mean a whole new way of thinking and feeling and acting." You say: "But that dragon is me. I will die." He says, "And you will rise to newness of life, for I will take its plan; I will make my mind and my will and my heart your own." You say, "What must I do?" He answers, "Trust me and do as I say. As long as you trust me we cannot lose." overcome by the beauty and power of Christ you bow and swear eternal loyalty and trust. And as you rise he puts a great sword in your hand and says, "Follow me." He leads you to the mouth of the cave and says, "Go in, slay the dragon." But you look at him bewildered, "I cannot. Not without you." He smiles. "Well said. You learn quickly. Never forget: my commands for you to do something are never commands to do it alone." Then you enter the cave together. A horrible battle follows and you feel Christ's hand on yours. At last the dragon lies limp. You ask, "Is it dead?" His answer is this: "I have come to give you new life. This you received when you yielded to my possession and swore faith and loyalty to me. And now with my Sword and my hand you have felled the dragon of the flesh. It is a mortal wound. It will die. That is certain. But it has not yet bled to death and it may yet revive with violent convulsions and do much harm. So you must treat it as dead and seal the cave as a tomb. The Lord of darkness may cause earthquakes in your soul to shake the stones loose but you build them up again. And have this confidence: with my sword and my hand on yours this dragon's doom is sure, he is finished, and your new life is secure." - John Piper

Old Fashioned Gentlemen

A Tribute to Old Fashion Girls

Thanks to Elissa!

The Shockingly Belated Saturday Quote

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." -Albert Einstein

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." -Mark Twain

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." -Mark Twain

Brooke Anna

Recent and Random pics....

Me playing at the mall.


















MY NEW BEAUTY


















The cutest little boy on the continent

Gertrude and I enjoying afternoon crumpets.