My 9/11 Story

A what were you doing on this day 10 years ago story. Everyone has one. I could not tell you what exactly i was doing on just any day of any year. But on September 11, 2001 I could. I get scared in most movies that are even slightly "intense", but nothing comes close to the fear and sadness I felt watching the second plane crash into the tower that morning on the news. It really really terrified me as a 9 year old.

I had been looking forward to this day for a really long time because my grandma Cobb and my cousin were coming to Utah to visit for my lil' sister's Birthday {which is tomorrow, FYI. Everyone go tell Emilie happy 14th birthday tomorrow! which reminds me of how awful of a sister I am because i forgot to put her card in the mail on saturday!} We hadn't seen my grandma in several months which was entirely too weird because when we lived in Washington a few months before this we saw her every day.

i love the comparison to the Iwo Jima picture {which is
the most published picture in the history of photography}

My first worry, after hearing that the airports were being shut down because of the attack in New York, was that I wouldn't see my grandma that day! haha.

I didn't go to school that day because i was going to be going to the airport. But i ended up staying at home all day. The news was on all day long as pieces of the puzzle came together. i remember telling my dad, "can we change the channel for a little bit to something not so sad." to which we watched the Disney channel. But even "Even Steven's" or the "Lizzy Mcguire Show" couldn't get the image out of my head of the buildings falling or the 2nd plane crashing into the building.

I remember thinking to myself "How could anyone do this?" and i still wonder that. I don't understand how people could hate us so bad that would make them want to do this. And this, starting a war lasting 10 years now!


I am grateful for all the people that day willing to give their lives for our freedom. Those in the buildings and crashes, the firefighters and the police. I am so grateful for the military of our country, who protect this country,who go half way across the world, who leave their wives and children, who sometimes die, to protect the freedoms we are used to everyday.

I do not think I could ever forget that day, but mostly, I don't want to forget that day.


Here is a picture that was in the Salt Lake Tribune on the 15 of September 2011. It hangs on my fridge where it has been since that day. My grandma and cousin were in the first flight coming into the SLC airport. My sister Emilie {so weird that back then we had a different last name. it seems almost like i have had my last name now, for my whole life} and cousin, kyle, {and Quinton, who's head you can barely see} were hugging. so cute! i love this picture! So so weird that 10 years ago they were so little!

I found the article online, but they were going to make me pay over
2 dollars to access it! So here is just the picture from my fridge.

police on my back and relating Aggie football to a pregnant women's emotions.

so my title doesn't really have that much to do with what i'm writing about. but it's a good title right??

first things first- let me go grab my journal so i may give you a good list of everything i've done {activities} since moving to logan. {and brace yourself/[selves if you have multi personality disorder]}

• stuck in traffic because a truck full of hazardous materials crashed into another car. {if i get cancer, this is why}
• played ultimate frisbee
• shared a bowl of top romen with betsy. lady and the tramp style :P
• woke up to a serious banging on my window by the window washers.
• comedy improv; The Antics
• put my fishies Whisk and Teaspoon {male and female beta's} together and all they did was eat each others fins!! so i separated them again. bad, fishies. bad!
• canoeing and cliff jumping.
• edited pictures of my cousins
• discovered pinterest.com
• taste of logan
• swing dancing x 2
• grandpa cobb turned 79! {FYI- the grandpa my first son will be named after- James}

here is a picture of my grandma and grandpa cobb they sent me. at a senior luau party.

• threw a crepe party

• ice skating
• watched half of 3 movies
• watched an episode of Arthur. :D {childhood fav}
• found out the ratio of girls to guys in my ward is 3{girl} to 1 {boy}. Which isn't as bad as the ratio last year 4.5 to 1. {does anyone know if boys actually go to school. cause i'm pretty certain there are more girls everywhere i go.
• awkward look game/swedish twister
• cinnamon roll party
• saw my married roommate anna!!!
• slip in slide on the grassy knoll of old farm!!

• game night
• kinect dancing. {hardest thing of my life. like harder than trigonometry probably.}
• hobby lobby with laurenita.
• made the most delicious things called lasagna rolls {and it's even 'funner' if you say it la zagggg na rolls. am i right??}
• phone tag
• day on the quad. got free toilet paper roll and lots of other free things!
• built a bridge out of popsicle sticks and hot glue
• did my laundry
• learned that taking your camera on a an airplane ruins your digital sensor. DON'T DO IT!
• high stakes bingo where one guy kissed 6 girls blindfolded and had to tell who was the best kisser! hahahahahahahaha.
• watched a couple DTR
• shot metalic kitchen utensils
• ate real food at Angies.
• institute dance. by far the best dance i've ever been to.
• karaoke to Hero by my man enrique iglesias
• creeped with betsy to find out if cute kitchen towels and blenders belonged to girls or guys. {and i was right. it was a girls apartment! 15 points for me!}
• did a man's job-fixed the blinds. {w/betsy and all we used were a screw driver and needle nose pliers. who needs men when you have the brains of dedicated college girls??....}
• swam at the oakridge pool.
• found that even as adult college students, some guys still take their Flintstone vitamins. whatever it takes to be healthy!

• and garin wore betsy's shorts. hahahahhhahhahah. top 10 funniest things of my semester thus far.
• hot tubed and scooped dead bees out of the hot tub. sick
• tried this new kind of top romen called "creamy chicken". sounds good, no? wrong! DO NOT give in to the temptation to try this kind. it is deeeee scust ing. trust me.
• girl talk
• Betsy became my mom. and i might become her aunt. we should write a song similar to "i'm my own grandpa" minus the annoyingness of it.
• oregon trail on Betsy's i touch. and 2 of my 3 kiddos got carried away by the balding Eagles! So sad. i cried. but only a little.
• how to lose a guy in 10 days. "our love fern!!!! you let it DIIIIIIEEEEE!!!!!"
• met my FHE dad and brothers. FYI, it is possible to have a dad younger than you.
• saw the first "bourne" movie for the first time!

this was right before we watched the movie. haha

• sketched a wire whisk, 5 times.
• hyrum dam.

Betsy, erik, ashley, kacey

• swam to the buoys. {and in case you were wondering, i spelt that with out spell checker!}
• tangled
• met a REAL cattle rancher. and he's in my ward. good news of the day!
• had "the police" taped to my back.
• FHE
• Fire up Logan Canyon.
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kevin, seth {my dad}, ashley, jonny, mark, and steven.

• 
  natalie, eric, tara, garin, genner.
  
  
  

natalie and i. {she is a roommate!}

• Had someone try to convince me to go to true aggie night with them.
• Betsy listed off my "finest qualities" to Garin.
• Then garin wanted to marry me. true story. :P
• wanted to beat betsy for this. haha
• finally saw my Melissa Q!!!!!!
• cleaned the sink at Angies.
• related and aggie football game to a pregnant women's emotions in English. {i had to, okay?? we were learning about "metaphors" and this was the one i had to do}
• finally understand really well what the heck Ansel Adams was thinking when creating the "zone system". Did you know that film picks up 2 more zones than that of digital?? add that to your gee whiz collection. {as betsy would say}

well that's good for now. I'm not cooking anything too elaborate tomorrow for recipe wednesday. but it's still something i've never made before. get your excited faces on!

tah tah for now,

Bri

p.s. in apx 1 week i'll probably have something really really really cool to say. just so ya know. :D :D

and in case you were craving a youtube video from me, because i haven't posted one in a very long time you may click on this here button to watch a pretty funny video in honor of Betsy doing her math homework while I play and sketch.

my childhood favs

I made a list of cool things i could blog about... but i lost it!!! So i made this list of things i should blog about. and then i lost the list. I'm very sad about this because i had some good ideas that you'd probably like. So instead of writing about cool things i'm going to give you a short list of things i liked as a little kid-o.

the book called "Harry the very dirty dog"

bananas. {which i now detest}

McDonalds french Fries. i called them "fuhfies"

my blanket.... okay not only as a child. i still love my baby blanket.

having my grandpa push me on the swings and "send me to the moon"!

going on adventures with ash. And our club house/eastwood times/ her eating BOTH strawberries/getting married together/swing set circuses.

Arthur the Aardvark and dorawinafred too.

putting my mother's make up on myself.

dressing Quinton up as a little girl "look mom deeeena brown is here!"

throwing the tennis ball in a paper sack for my grandma's dog, Tiffy.

slug hunting with a salt shaker

picking cherries from grandpa's cherry tree

swimming to the spring canyon buoy's and swimming to the bottom and grabbing sand.

sitting in the walk in freezer at the R&A cafe with my BF Karah

YMCA preschool in California

Drinking milk out of a plastic bag at ash's kindergarten

being in a giant bubble

cooking with grandma cobb

crawfish boils

messing ash's shoe pile up.

"the little master" 's BLUE trophy.

kraft macaroni and cheese. especially the swirly ones. but i didn't get them as often. :'(