The story of my niece {with the cutest name there ever was}. As told by her favorite aunt.

Where should I start?
The beginning is always a good place to start.

May 2009- Ashleigh graduated from high school. I told her I wanted 2 things from her: For her to get married and give me a baby niece {not a nephew for we both want to name our first sons James}

May 2010- I graduate from high school. And I keep telling her I want the same thing.

Summer 2010- She develops little crush on her boss, Nathan.

fall 2010- this crush turns into a relationship.

January 2011- Ashleigh gets engaged and the first part of my wish is coming true

March 2011- Ash and Nathan wed in the salt lake city, LDS, Temple.

april-september- wishing ash would tell us she was pregnant.

August- the big announcement that they're having a baby

november- Find out that it's indeed a girl. none of this nephew nonsense.

March- march comes and goes. No baby.

April 1- I have to go back home to Logan.

April 2-

I wake up, feel refreshed. No sign of baby. I'm in my room getting dressed to head to my first class.

10:07 am- ring ring. it's ash. I have a mini heart attack. "hello?"  "are you ready to be an aunt?" She tells me she's at the hospital and my niece will be here by dinner. {she was at a 4}

10:26- schedule the studio at school for friday to do her pictures.

11:05- leave Logan. Drive like a maniac. never driven so fast in my whole life.

12:55- I arrive at the hospital. Go see ash and nathan. I document the room and the nurse checks her. she went from a 5 to an 8 in half an hour!

1:48- rest of the family get here. They all talk to her.

2:10- we all leave the room.

2:10 - Nurse comes to check her. She's a 10!!

2:22 pm. 3 nurses run into room 4. "this baby's coming!" the doctor wasn't even in the room. he was chillin at the nurse's station. what the heck, doctor? this is my sister!! can you please go make sure she's okay??????

2:24 pm. grandpa cobb looks incredibly nervous. he has a completely blank expression on his face just looking down the hall.

2:25- she's crowning. nurse is giggling on the phone telling the doctor he should get in there.

2:31-nurse on the phone says they're telling her not to push.

2:36-Doctor went into her room.

2:37- she was born. After 1 push! the nurse said "she was meant to have babies.  She shot that baby out!"

2:40- I am writing this and am sooooo incredibly anxious!!

2:45- make baby weight guesses-

me- 7 11
Quinton- {between 6 and 12 pounds was what he said first} his real guess- 7 15
mom- 8 2
dad- 7 12
grandpa- 7 8
emilie- 7 7
grandma- 7 5.5

her real weight 6 pounds 13 ounces. 19 inches. We all over guessed. She's a little petite thing.

Gemma Petrea {puh tray uh} Nye.

3:15 ish we got to go see her for the first time.

yes, I cried. She was blowing bubbles and kept sticking her tongue out. sooo cute!!

My lucky stars this little girl stole my heart. I knew she would. But it's hard to imagine that she's here. I've been waiting my whole entire life for ash to have a baby! And she's cute too!

Well a little later. probably around 4:15 they brought her to the nursery and she was tortured! the poor thing had to get a shot in her little tiny thigh! and her foot pricked! and she screamed her tiny lungs out! And I wanted to cry too! And then when i thought it was over they gave her a total scrub down. And she hated that too. It was not fun to watch through the window.

Then. Finally. I got to hold her!!

I finally, at last, got to hold this tiny angel who just came straight from heaven! And she looked right at me.

look at her cute lil hairs! :D

she is a really really alert baby. she hasn't slept at all yet! she was looking around the whole time and trying to eat her hand and anything that came in contact with her mouth.

And then we said goodbye so mamma ashleigh could feed her. And don't you worry, I'll put some more pictures up later. :D

but here's one more, just for fun.

First family picture. Gemma is less than an hour old. 

Time Travel- been there, done that. Today.

Today was kind of insane. I experienced-


pain- I spilt boiling hot water all over my left hand. And it hurts! and Other pains too. But they might embarrass some people. jk jk......


happiness- My portfolio in one of my photo classes is going to be waaaay more simple than the one I chose {and nearly killed myself with} last semester.


excitement- Study abroad planning! I cannot wait till May 8th. seriously! Europe, look out! Brianna is coming! SOON!


worry- Hoping I really am going to have enough money to eat while i'm in Europe. Anyone want to send me money? {just kidding, I would feel super awful if you really did}


nervousness- thinking about the next few years of my life. Not really wanting to be a real adult with scary responsibilities when i'm done with college in a year..... holy hannah banana that's scary! Only a year???! *hyperventilation*


sad- Because when you think too much about certain things, you just want to cry. But good news you guys! I didn't lose any of my precious tears today. :D


peace- I read the entire Ensign today. Cover to Cover. And you know what? It turned all of my sad into a manageable burden that helped me feel reassured of what I already knew and just forgot for a little bit.


Assurance- Assurance felt from my Father in heaven. That he REALLY does love me, and care for me, and care about me and the hardness that life seems to bring more of recently.


stressed- let's be honest, as sure as my name is Brianna, I'll stress. It's a part of the definition of me. It's how I get anything done. It helps me realize I'm still the same me. {maybe this shouldn't be so much of me.....?}


anxious- For my little niece to be born! ONE WEEK till her due date! Can you people believe it's been that long since I've been blogging about her?????


and....


time travel- Yep, that's right. I have been to 8 time zones today, in 3 continents, in the years past, and 6 years the future too! 
      

     Explanation time-  My phone keeps telling me that I have changed time zones and then will give me it's suggestion on what time zone I'm in. But guess what? I've been in Utah, ALL DAY! I have not been to russia or spain or california or missouri or anywhere else they think i've been. Not once, I promise! So, I don't even understand why it's been having a heart attack all day. 

      Also, my Ipod told me it was july 23 1969. Then when I manually changed it to the current day and time, it went right back. So then, naturally i think something happened on this date that i must need to know about.... so i google it. Naturally, Nothing that cool happened that day. Just a big baseball game and president Nixon was giving a speech on Johnston Island. But here's the thing, after thinking about how this could be important to me, but i got nothing. It just made me wish that something cooler would have happened on this day.

      then to make the day even stranger, I got an email from a "Mrs. Jones" wishing me a happy 26th birthday. And I don't know who Mrs. Jones is, but it's a) creepy she knows my name. b)creepy that this happened on the same day as all of the aforementioned things. and c)sad that she missed my birthday by nearly 2 months. But mostly just a and b.

Here, my friends, and foes {just kidding, I hope I don't have foes}, is a beautiful quote that I read in the Ensign-

 "No person will ever be totally free who is living a lie.. We should ever bear in mind that a wrong isn't right just because many people do it. A wrong deed isn't right just because it hasn't become visible yet"

-Marvin J Ashton


And here is a time machine picture so you can imagine that you went time traveling with me today. But, I didn't have to use a machine to do it. I'm that great. :P

Funny Weekend Stories

This weekend was all around pretty funny.
I'm now going to share a few of them for you.

• I was making a few hundred cupcakes with my mom for ash's baby shower and I was goofing off and she said, "let's get down to business now." So, naturally, I start singing, "Let's get down to business, to defeat the Huns!" She doesn't say anything. About 5 minutes later {she thinks it was only 30 seconds but that's false. My story is more correct....} she excitedly says, "MULAN! that song is from Mulan." haha. it was great. I said, "you're so cool, mom" She responds, "I was thinking it was from Cinderella but then I changed my mind." haha. classic.
• Quinton at dinner tonight- Dad was talking about politics I do believe. Nothing out of the ordinary. Q says, "did you know that the unemployment rate in Japan is .01%?". Dad- "Last year at this time it was 16%! where did you hear that?" Q-"I saw it somewhere." Dad-"are you sure?" Q-"Oh, wait. Maybe that was the illiteracy rate...." Ashleigh cracked up so hard. Nathan had to calm her down 'cause he was scared her baby would come. haha
• Sunday school lesson today. I went to my dad's sunday school class. he teaches the 14 and 15 year olds I believe...? Anyways. several funny things happened here. First-One of the kids was bragging about how he kissed a cheerleader after the state championship basketball game because he promised if Orem won {GO TIGERS!} he would. something along those lines. So we find that he kissed her on the cheek. what a super star! haha. Another kid said somthing like "You're not 16! you can't date yet!" and kissing on cheek kid said, "I just kissed her, I didn't date her!" other kid- "lucky, my mom says i'm not allowed to kiss till i'm 18!" Wow. To be that young again. I don't envy them. Super awkward stage in life. Here's the thing though {attention men of all ages}- If you're going to kiss a girl, you should at least make it a good one! {but not till your mom says you can, of course.... :P}
• the other funny part of sunday school was something my dad said. For some reason he was talking about the bomb shelters and the drills they did when he was in high school and he said, "They'd give us this biscuit that tasted like it had been run over by a truck on the cement and had enough iodine in it that would help your thyroid not fall out in case of a nuclear bomb. Also they'd give you a cough drop that had enough sugar in it that would allow you to survive for 72 hours." I don't know where he comes up with some things. But, the kids totally believe him.... even though i'm 90% sure myself that it was made up.....?
• In sacrament meeting I was watching the little kids most of the time. I forget how distracting a family ward is compared to the dead silence of student wards. This little boy {about 2 probably} was playing with this girl {barely walking so around a year old} sitting on the bench behind him and they were getting too loud so the mom of the boy pulled him away and told him he needed to be "more reverent". He started crying and said relatively loud, "But I love her!" Oh, my, lucky, stars. How incredibly cute is that??? He's going to grow up to be a romantic! It was quiet frankly the cutest thing i've seen in a long time. I hope they get married one day. 
• at Ashleigh's baby shower, Quinton was helping to set up. Mom told Em and I to bring a baby picture as part of the shower thing. Quinton heard this and decided to bring his entire baby album. So while mom was setting the food table up, He proceeds to set up a whole chalkboard ledge full of his baby pictures. It was fantastic. Mom saw them and told him we didn't need a Quinton shrine at Ashleigh's baby shower. he said, and I quote, "Mom, I'm sure they will really want to see how cute I was as a baby." haha. And she got distracted and forgot to make him take it down, so they were up the whole shower. :D

So you can see. Here he is with his baby pictures.
 I'm not sure if he's pretending to be
a baby here, or if he's just acting weird.
Maybe all of the above?...

• There's at least 3-5 more. But, I think that's long enough for now.

**proud aunt moment time**

Caitlin told me at the baby shower that she changed her favorite color to Orange because that's my favorite color. *beaming*

Tonight at dinner Emilie asked if she could sit by her and she said "I want to sit by Brianna" 

being the favorite aunt- CHECK! 

This is one thing I got for my un-born, but incredibly beautiful niece-

"I love my aunt" In the heart it says,
"Incredible, beautiful, smart" and
underneath it says, "*contact info
available upon request."
:D So true. 

P.S. I went to Disneyland too..... {grandma, I really didn't}

Congrats to anyone who read that whole thing!

I'm pretty sure that Emilie is the only one who made it this far though. It was a novel of a post. And she loves novels. 

Well, It's time for bed.

XOXO

-Bri

Thankful Post

i'm thankful for-

My family-

Mom

Dad

Ash {and nathan AND baby girl}

Q

Ems

my puppy, Kandi

G&G Cobb and Dickerson

Aunts and Uncles 

Cousins

My really close friends. Especially

Betsy & Lauren. 

Taylor 

and my roommates from this year and last year-

Allison, Anna, Melissa, Tara, Ashley, Natalie, Michelle, Shanna

The people in my major. They keep things interesting.

USU. Aggies. Best school EVER!

electric blankets

Christmas time

church music and playing the piano

photography

my beliefs and the church

laughing

my cameras

my freedoms

etc

happy Thanksgiving!

Patience is a virtue

patience is a  virtue;

                             .....................a virtue I wish I had.

I wish for patience-

for my cold to go away

for the right time

for an answer to a question

for my turn

for the semester to be done

for another question to be answered

for my 2oth birthday in January

for bedtime when all my homework is done. 

for a phone call I want to receive

for my niece to be here so I can hold her and kiss her cute lil' face off

etc.

It's a girl!, attacking ducks, catch up, registration.

In case you all live in a hole, ASHLEIGH IS HAVING A GIRL!! I predicted it. And apparently those of you who voted in my pole did too. :D Good work, team. Now, i get to look at baby girl clothes ever time i go to the store. :D yay! I can't wait for her to get here. :D I still want them to name her Paisley. {their first official date was to Brad Paisley concert and their first dance was to him as well... their first child might as well be after him too!}

This weekend was fantastic. first off, USU beat the cougars sad hind ends! :D it was pretty fantastic! here is what happened. i watched it with my ma and pops. i did all the cheers that the student section did and was yelling like a mad woman at the t.v. and then mom and dad both left the room and watched in their bedroom instead. i have no idea why! and then my BFFFFF Betso called me during the "scoreboard" cheer. it was probably the best part of the game.

 

tara, william, annie, melissa, betsy, me, and anna

OH! Melissa Q. III got married too! insanity!! her wedding was pretty. she looked drop dead gorgeous! What a lucky man William is.


Saturday i slept in. Taylor and i brought Ash lunch cause she was having a rough day. And then i dusted her piano and Ash used Taylor's muscles to lift a heavy box. haha.

We went bowling at Jack and Jill's bowling alley. I had never been there. pretty fun! and guess what! several big things happened. 1-i used an orange ball. 2-i got a strike right away. 3-then i got 2 more in a row making it a turkey!! 4-i beat Taylor in the first game! 5-i got a strike on a granny throw. 6 i beat taylor in the second game too!! it was awesome! :D 6. i think it was because i used an orange ball and he used purple. and clearly orange > purple. :D

this isn't even half of them. i couldn't get them all
in a single picture.

After this was a whirlwind of random things. Sunflower market, target {we looked at baby clothes cause ash is having a babay!} costco {samples, lotion looking, diamond and jewelry looking} walmart {ice cream buying for ashleigh's party} ashleigh's birthday/gender announcement party. then.... the best part! we went to "our" park. The park we went to all the time this summer. we were trying to think of what to do and he suggested a park. i said "yes!" and he said "which one?" i look at him seriously and we say in unison- "our park" haha. it was grand. we got a loaf of bread and fed the ducks. only, these ducks were not your normal stay-in-the-water while getting fed ducks. they were insane! they were fighting for the bread and came out of the water and came right up to us. ALL of them! so taylor and i kept backing up until we were on top of the play ground and all the ducks were on the wood chips under the play ground quacking at us. well, our loaf was gone and then we went to walmart and bought 2 more. and this time we led them around the park while feeding them and even got brave enough to feed them from our hands. it was awesome! Taylor said they are now our pets that we have to go back and visit. which is hardly a hard task as it is "our park". haha. he wanted to catch one and take it to my house and put it in Emilie's room.

taylor throwing some bread. :D

then we danced on top of the pic nic tables. really fun. then he took me home early {midnight ish} cause he had to work super early sunday morning. usually we stay out waay past midnight. We had a conversation at my house and ate a doughnut. haha. then on his way home driving, he called me. of course. It just wouldn't be the same if he didn't! :D

i slept at ashleigh's house saturday night and had a conversation with her and nathan. Nathan told me if i don't do something soon i'm going to be an old spinster. :( sad! I'm not brave enough for this "something" apparently. So, spinsterhood-welcome.

there are a lot of babies in their ward! i just wanted to hold them all. i can't wait to hold my very own niece!

went home and took a nap with my puppy, kandi. :D she's a good snuggler. except she's kind of a bed hog to the max! but she really liked my pillow so she laid by my head instead of on top of me this time. love that dog!

Went to taylor's house for dinner! FINALLY got to meet his dad and brother. I've met his mom before. They're fun. i texted my family and told them "his family is much more quiet than ours" and Quinton responded back and said "i am pretty sure all families in this world are a lot quieter than ours." true statement. I left utah county and headed back to logan.

which ends me posting about this weekend.

so here's what happened last weekend-

Tay came up to logan for the institute dance on friday. it was probably like the best day ever! One of my favorite parts was sneaking into a room at the institute and he played songs for me on the piano. hymns from the hymn book, except not just how it's written. he is one of those people that can make it into a musical number without trying. i could listen to it all day.

funny story- after we partied it up around town till 2 we came back to my place. we were talking. i asked him some question and he didn't answer. {i was writing in my journal.} he started snoring and i was just about to head up to bed {he was sleeping on the couch} when he randomly answered the question i had asked and then continued snoring. When i started laughing he woke up. it was so great.

this post is long enough, i won't bore you with the rest of the wonderful things we did. just know it was a rockin time.

but, meanwhile i'm going to register for classes at midnight. joy to the world. my favorite thing. not!