Lakeisha Ethans

Fighting cancer is exhausting, so what better way for that strength to be celebrated than by receiving 500 roses? Brad Bousquet decided to give his wife Alissa exactly that after she underwent three surgeries and then had her final chemo treatment at the Methodist Estabrook Cancer Center on Omaha. He even threw in a donation towards breast cancer research in her name. Wow! Brad pulled off this amazing stunt with the help of their four children and a small, close community in Nebraska. On a Facebook post, he wrote, “Today is my wife’s last chemotherapy treatment. She has amazed me with her strength, courage, and positive attitude through it all.” He added that “wanted to do something special during this last treatment to celebrate the end of her chemo and to show her the tremendous love and support she has from her friends and family.” He had previously sent out a text to many of Alissa’s friends and family, asking for them to spread the word and help shower her with roses from a local flower shop. Each rose cost $10.00 – all of which would go to the Susan G. Komen towards breast cancer research. The orders started out as only a few, but soon skyrocketed to 500 roses as over 170 families chipped in. At this point, he asked the shop to stop ordering roses, instead letting any addition money that came in go straight to donations. The raised over $4500 in total. Brad’s children made the delivery to their mother as she came out of her last chemo treatment. After she’d seen all of them, the family shared the roses with other cancer patients receiving treatment that day. Brad wrote in a card addressed to the hospital that each rose represented his family’s support towards theirs. Take a look at this video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY9kUxKq2b8 This amazing and inspirational story really speaks of love and support. Do share this incredible story with your friends! Feature Image Source: Facebook / Brad Bousquet

Marriage can involve silly fights, ridiculous conversations, and the dumbest exchanges, especially when you’ve been together for a long time! Through the joy of text messaging, these interactions get to be brought along on the road, even after leaving home. Here are 15 text messages you’ve probably sent to or received from a spouse before. 1. When you use your strengths against them. 2. When you realize punctuality isn’t always optional. 3. When having a kid brings out the childishness in you. 4. When you try to be smooth with compliments. 5. When you can’t play games, you always have someone to turn to. 6. When you buy yourself presents on their behalf. 7. When you know how long getting ready takes so you prepare in advance. 8. When you realize that’s not how diets work. 9. When you set up elaborate scenes to mess with them. 10. When reading up on healthy recipes doesn’t change the fact that it’s pizza night. 11. When your desires become more practical. 12. When you have to spell it out to be understood. 13. When childish arguments escalate to childish insults and jokes. 14. When you make passive aggressive jokes. 15. When there’s a hidden agenda behind a compliment. At the end of the day, you’ll always love your spouse! But no one ever said married life was going to be easy! Did you relate to these texts, or have you sent very similar ones in the past? Give this a like and share away for other married individuals to see! Feature Image Source: Aspyn + Parker

As someone who frequently paints her nails herself, I love a good and easy nail hack that makes my nail designs so much prettier! Even without tools, people around the world are coming up with ingenious ways to make gorgeous designs. In fact, some of them only require a toothpick! Here are 12 cool, pretty nail designs that you can do easily with a toothpick. 1. Let’s start with some cute, simple, dotted designs. After all, the easiest thing to do with your toothpick is to just blob spots everywhere. Try this cute pop fizz look by painting your nails a bright color and adding contrast color dots to the bottom with a toothpick. 2. You can also use a toothpick to add notches to your polish to make your nails look like strawberries! Poke holes in red polish and you’re good to go. 3. Cheat by using a Sharpie to make Monarch butterfly nails! Draw the main pattern on an orange nail with black Sharpie and use a toothpick to add white dots. 4. Make a gold-dipped nail by shaping and dotting with that pick of yours. 5. Feeling ambitious? Try a dotticure! Watch this tutorial to figure it out. 6. Now let’s move on to modified dots. Trying making leopard spots with gold and black polish, shaping them with a toothpick. 7. Make a sweet heart – join three pink dots together. Doesn’t get easier! 8. If you have a dotting tool, you can make these pretty flowers by dotting on white and black nail polish and swiping through them with a toothpick. 9. Let’s get fancy! Paint a party on your nails by dotting a generous blob of polish on your nail with a toothpick and then flicking it so it splatters. 10. Swirl stuff around for a marbled effect! Use gold nail polish on your nail and swirl the paint around with a toothpick. I promise it’s easier than it looks! 11. Turn your nails into a whirlpool with just three colors and a whole lot of swirling. 12. Confident about your drawing skills? Try this nautical nail on for size! Draw some straight blue polish lines onto a white nail with a toothpick, then draw on a red anchor when it dries! Perfection. Are you going to try any of these? Like and share if you do! Feature Image Source: Livemodish