Life is crazy

Here is a little update from the Cook household!


The past few months have been a whirlwind! Petey has been working SO hard in his classes this semester, and I'm very proud of him! He had two finals yesterday (he studied for days for his physics final!) and one more final tomorrow. I CAN'T WAIT FOR HIM TO BE DONE!!!!! It will be so nice to have a stress free Christmas break with him. School work has been taking him away from me an awful lot lately. I'm still working at Lee's. I've had a few interviews recently, but nothing has come of them yet. It's hard to find a 'real' job in Logan! It probably doesn't help that I still don't know what I want to do for my career ;) We'll see what happens...

For Thanksgiving this year we spent the day with Petey's family. There was lots of yummy food and good company! After dinner we met up with my parents and headed to Wyoming to watch Tanner's Thanksgiving weekend basketball tournament. I was so happy that Petey and I could go with my parents! Since Tanner is going to school in Wyoming, we haven't been able to see him very often. The Central Wyoming basketball team has had an awesome season so far! Tanner had quite the crowd cheering him on! My parents, Petey, myself, my aunt Mary, my aunt Diane, and three of my cousins also came. The Central Wyoming Rustlers won both of their games during the tournament. We were able to take Tanner out to dinner and spend some time with him. Man, I miss that boy!!! He has just started his mission papers, and I'm soooooo proud of him!! The Rustlers basketball teams current record is 11-2!!

I am getting extremely excited for Christmas!!!! Christmas is my favorite time of the year and I love spending some quality time with my family during it. It will be Tanner's last Christmas before he leaves on his mission, so this year will be extra special!Tyler and Jennie are expecting their first baby, so come next December there will be another addition to our family! We'll be spending Christmas with my side of the family. We are having a family party on the 29th and I think it will be bittersweet. All of the girls in the family will be going through my Grandma Saunders' jewelry and  picking out an item to keep for ourselves. My Grandma loved jewelry! This will be the first Christmas without her :(  It will be nice to have the whole family together to spend time with my Grandpa and remember. I've hardly bought any Christmas presents yet...I need to get on it!!!

Perhaps the biggest news to report on is that.....we will be moving to Hawaii for three months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For Petey's major he has to do an internship before he can graduate. He applied to numerous companies, but was hoping that Chevron would hire him. Last week Petey was offered an internship from his second choice. He kept telling me that he wanted to hold off on accepting the offer just in case Chevron worked out. Three days later, Chevron called and offered Petey a summer internship in HAWAII! When Petey showed up at my work and told me where we would be going I freaked out!!! I still can't believe it! We will be moving to Oahu. The town Petey will be working in is Kapolei (I have zero idea on how to pronounce any of the towns!!) We are so thrilled for this opportunity!! While Petey is working, I hope that I can find somewhere to volunteer in Hawaii to keep me entertained...if I can't find anywhere I guess I'll just have to spend all of my time at the beach :) I'm kind of nervous about how everything will work out, because we have no idea where we will live, we'll have to find an apartment that is furnished since we won't be able to bring anything but clothes, we won't have a car, and living expenses/food are WAY more expensive in Hawaii! I'm also kind of sad because Tanner will be going on his mission sometime next summer, and I hope that I'll be able to either fly back to Utah for all of his mission activities, or I won't fly out to Hawaii until after Tanner has left on his mission. Petey probably won't be around when Tanner leaves for the M.T.C., which is a bummer! I'm also sad that I probably won't be around when Tyler and Jennie have their baby. I'm also very scared for the likelihood that I will have to fly to Hawaii by myself!!! For the past few years flying has been an issue for me, and I can't imagine being on a 7 hour flight freaking out by myself :( I'm really close to my family, so I'm sad that I will miss out on things next summer, but this is such an amazing opportunity!! My parents really want to visit us while we are living there and I hope they can! We'll take all the visitors we can get! One nice thing is that Chevron will be giving us a moving bonus to help us make this big move!!

No we'll just have to suffer through a cold Logan winter before we have a 12 week vacation in paradise!! I'm not really sure what will happen once we get back because I'll have to find a new job, and we aren't sure what we will do about our living arrangements in Logan...we have a LOT to figure out! We are very excited for what the future holds, and we can't wait for May!! Life is crazy!!