BEHOLD my life in pictures.

Okay, so all these cool blogging ladies have this thing where every once in a while they put up all their pictures from their phone and have some fancy title.

well, I don't have a fancy phone, in fact, mine will be 4 years old in october. It's a champion I tell you. It has about a million and a half scratches and spazzes {how does one spell that word?} out from time to time. But, It has this fancy thing called a camera. and the reason i bought this particular phone in the first place was because way back 4 years ago, most phones had 1.3 megapixels and when my little eyes saw this fun pink phone with a whopping 5 megapixel camera, I said, "i'm getting that one" and i did. {wow Bri, that was a wonderful mega run on sentence!!}

so, while these pictures don't really have the same pop as iphone pictures, it's pretty good for a 4 year old phone's camera, right??

p.s. my phone is called the behold. just so my title makes some sense.
p.s.s. i realize this post isn't about Betsy's wedding, I haven't had time to go through those pictures yet.

This is how Q did his hair fro his drivers license picture. what a champion.

little gemma has some rockin shades.

i hope my mom doesn't kill me for putting this up. 

I got Q these swim trunk things in Germany. he's not allowed to wear them out of the house..... look at his WHITE legs though. haha

yay for new makeup!! :D

Quinton puts "smurf" cereal on his icecream... weirdo.

Betsy washing her wedding dress in a normal washer. scary moment!

Betsy's brother Andrew, taped a "Y" paper over my Aggie sticker on my car. haha

I painted my nails real cute like.

I made bridal shower cupcakes.

this is weird. I've worked there a fifth of my life?? {5th year means 4 years. FYI}

Sometimes that makes me a little sick feeling.

Harmons sells OHS stuff!! woo!

I colored real nicely in my mom's primary class. Stylish Guy if I do say so myself. :D

I'm very strongly strongly opposed to putting pictures of myself from a mirror picture because I think they're kind of extremely tacky, but, I LOVE this dress i bought! And it looks a lot better on than on the hanger. It has a lace top. :D I can't wait to wear it sunday!

grilled PB and Marshmallow sandwich. 

try it for dinners!

deep in thought while sleeping on grandma

"Why is uncle Q wearing my bib with no shirt?"

I found this ferrari car thing in the OHS parking lot. 

I thought it would have been a better use of this guy's money to pay for my college.... but I guess he didn't think so.

so i thought these were donkeys on the bum of this ADORABLE baby outfit, but turns out it was a zebra. If i had the money, i would have bought this for a future daughter.

baby clothes are my weakness. 

I found cowboy snow boots!! once again, i wish i could put this in my hope chest. 

sometimes I get bored at work and make snow flakes out of baby wipes at the register.

my grandma cobb bought me these adorable teal eyelet shoes! woo! can't wait to wear them!

this machine is at the wendy's down the street from my home. and that's emilie. it was just remodeled. 

the problem with having this many flavors is.... that I still just get plain dr pepper..... 

I don't like drinking soda too much. So if I'm going to drink it, Why not just drink my favorite?? 

emilie got raspberry coke. it was mighty tasty, actually. 

my newest nails. fun summer color and sparkles.

I made myself a malt to watch the olypmpics. 

notice the hundred wedding announcements on the fridge. 

all my friends decided this summer would be perfect to get wed.

and these next few pictures aren't from my phone. But I doubt you even care.

happy grampy with gemma 

peek a boo.

i love that her feet are on her mommy's

she loved this!

grandpa got out his dinosaur video recorder. 

I'm sure he used his "camera trick" to make two of Gemma.

Welp, i'm gonna go watch some olympics, mmmkay?

and just in case you were wondering how many times I've had the hiccups today, the answer is 6. SIX! It's annoyingly painful. 

Things I've discovered in the past 24 hours.

the past day has been incredible. I have discovered a lot.

• That baby feet are truly the cutest things there ever was.

• that baby lips are adorable
• newborn sneezes make everyone go "aww!"
• that 6 pounds of human can sure take up a large amount in a heart. 
• That a baby brings so many people so much happiness. 
• That i am indeed an emotional girl when so happy

• I've always told myself that i'd probably wait a while after getting married to have a baby. false. This little girl made me realize I'll want one pretty soon after getting married. 
• That a baby can bring the whole family together
• That family really is the most important thing.
• That ashleigh doesn't think my babies will be as cute as hers. 
• that i probably agree. gemma is adorable.
• that six pounds is a small baby. 

• that most mothers don't care too much about being modest after child birth in the hospital.
• That grandpa cobb can't say "Gemma"
• That going to school in logan puts a damper on this whole aunt thing. 
• That I sing really loud in the car when i'm by myself.
• That saying goodbye to that little angel was hard. 
• Ashleigh's going to have a hard time wanting to finish school now. pretty certain.

• that grandma {my mother} is going to be the world's biggest baby hog.
• that everyone takes on a new name and responsibility when a baby is born. 
• that nathan has changed every diaper thus far.
• that when a nurse goes into the room to take baby, she'll return with another little bandaid on her foot from where they tortured her.
• That I want my labors to be exactly like my sisters. 
• that i can't get tired of looking at the pictures i took. 
• that people's priorities are more in line to what they should be, when a baby is born.
• a new word- vernacular photography. It's what my professor told me i was doing when taking he pictures of the last day. 
• that the best way to get a "like" on facebook, is tell them you're going to be an aunt.
• that i've missed my grandparents tremendously.  
• that your friends get sick of you sending them pictures of your niece
• that it's hard to pay attention to researching for your study abroad project when on your own laptop cause you just end up looking at pictures you took of your niece. 
• That I'm exhausted and I didn't even have this child. 
• that just because you took a day off of school and the rest of life, doesn't mean you don't have to do everything you didn't do but should have, later. 
• that the library is an excellent place to take a nap now. 

Christmas Post

you know, it's hard to keep a blog going when you worked 40 hours in a week. Among other things....


Anyways, Christmas this year was different. Mainly because the weather felt more like fall or spring and there was absolutely no cold, white, fluffy, stuff on the ground. Which was some major disappointment for me. I have no idea how people can feel like it's Christmas every year that live in places where it never snows. It was just a really bizarre experience to wake up to a bright sunny day.

But, I can say that I honestly really really miss Christmas as a kid. When my parents played Santa and the stairs were blocked off to go downstairs to the living room so we couldn't peak, and the elaborate displays of our plates {we have plates instead of stockings. always have. It's a German culture thing that my grandma did in her family and passed it down}, etc. it was so so fun to wake up at 5 am and be so excited to see what i got for Christmas. Now, i pretty much know what I'm getting. I think Christmas is better when there are kids present. I'm excited for Ashleigh's baby to be big enough to know what's going on.

But, I have good news.

You know how I love pearls? And how they've been on my wish list to own a pair of real ones for like 5 years? Well, they're no longer on my wish list because that's what Taylor got me for Christmas! *big smiles* He is such a winner! I love them. :D

aren't they BEAUTIFUL!?
they even came in a pretty box! He did good. :) 

We were at a store looking at jewelry randomly one day and I was making googly eyes at the pearl earrings. Anyways, he bought the EXACT pair that i had fell in love with that day. I had no idea how very much he pays attention to things I say and do until yesterday. It was happy. He also bought me this knitted headband that i liked one day at a different store, and bought me a really cute picture frame! I told him i'd probably put a picture of us in it and he said, "good, i was hoping you would!" Do you people reading this realize how much i love picture frames? i own like 50+. I'd say that Taylor knows me pretty well. haha. Oh, and thank you to Taylor's mom for wrapping them because his least favorite part of Christmas is "wrapping  the sides of presents." haha i laughed really hard when he told me that.


I wrapped one of the things i got for Taylor in a ton of different sized boxes. all of them were wrapped individually.  It was great. Quinton helped me with it. He's good at that sort of thing.

the last part of him opening the many boxed gift.
It was a CTR ring. Because he doesn't own one. But now he does. :D 

This was the first Christmas in a long long long long long time that i didn't get to spend it with my Grandma and Grandpa Cobb. It made me really sad. But I did talk to them on the phone for nearly an hour. :D I love them. I can't wait till they move here! {hopefully this summer!}

and here are a few random pictures from Christmas.

Grandma Cobb gives all her grandsons a
new bathroom reader book for Christmas.
Nathan even got one. I guess he's officially
welcomed to the family now. haha

he loved the book ash got him. re-gifted
from a white elephant trade.

fam picture in front of the tree after church.
{minus ash.} My hair was having a trial.

We're practicing posing for awkward fam photo.com.
I think we finally captured one worthy enough. 

ems opening something. Kandi smelling for Chocolate. 

look at the snazzy socks my dad got from grandma cobb.

In other news, it's one month till my 20th  birthday! Taylor reminded me of this just a few seconds ago. :D sorry it isn't really that much of an update of what i've been doing lately. 

p.s. Taylor says "hello" to all my blogger readers

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!

Little Miracles of the day

So today was great. Wanna hear my tender mercies of the day? Okay, grrreat!

So I went to school all worried because for some extremely odd reason school has gotten ahead of me this year. This new word has entered my vocabulary. Do you want to know what that word is? It starts with "pro" and ends in "crastination". Here's the definition  in case you don't have it in your vocabulary like i used to not {and it's a funny definition so you should push that link!} And believe it or not, i'm not as stressed as i usually am when trying to get things done way ahead of schedule like i usually am doing. and I still have gotten everything done on time.

So today I was thinking about everything I would have to get done in the next 2 or 3 days. But guess what?

• my photo midterm portfolio is now due on the 27th {which is also known as my 19 and 2/3 Birthday in case someone wanted to sing me 2/3 of the birthday song or bring me 2/3 of a dozen cupcakes} instead of a week from today! 

So then I went to English and we were supposed to have a rough draft of a paper due on thursday. but

• class was canceled on thursday! so, this also means that the grammar lesson that was my turn to present isn't going to happen on thursday either! So now, that stuff is due on tuesday instead. 
• Which also means that i get to go get a scotsman dog with a friend for lunch now cause i don't have that class in the way. 

tender mercy. HECK YES!

so then i was trying to figure out why i didn't have a score for my tax assignment in my family finance class {the first assignment of the semester} when i had scores for assignments due after. So i checked my messages on blackboard and i had a message saying that the assignment didn't attach properly and therefore was blank. So I went home and on my laptop tried to locate the assignment. guess what? It was NOT there. sigh. so then i went to re do it and got my notes out and 

• i had written down on my notes all the answers as i went along on it the first time. So I didn't have to really re do it,  just re-write it out.

Then i came home and i had a letter from my grandma Cobb. She probably thinks my favorite part of getting mail from her is when she sends me money, but i really love the cute little notes she writes. they all go into my journal and really mean a lot to me. I had a rough photo critique today and 

• the letter she wrote said "Hi Bri, Hope your week was good. Love you! And I love looking at your gorgeous photos. Keep working hard. We love you SO {double underlined too. :D} much! Grams & Gramps" Super sweet right? I miss them so much. They're my heroes. I wish they didn't live in Washington. They're the only ones that ever send me mail. {if any of you want to send me mail, feel free}

my favorite quote of the day-

"on a scale of 1 to 10, how sweaty was _____'s hand?" - Allison. hahaha. i about died of laughter. Good times. 

Also, i cannot wait till i come home from school tomorrow. Why? Because Allison and I are making fancy cupcakes! and then tomorrow night i'm going swing dancing with several people!! I love swing dancing!

Also, these pictures crack me up. :D