Two more weeks!

This semester has flown by at school. I only have 2 more weeks left. This semester was so much fun at th BC. It wa full of making new friends and brain cakes and LOVING all my teachers and always feeling the spirit and having it guide your life and teach you everything you need to learn and more. My last and latest project for school this semester is these cute little nest easter treats I made today. So cute!

Spring is here!

I thought this would never happen through that long, miserable winter season. I am super excited! I love seeing the baby animals and the flowers starting to bud then bloom and the new spring air! You can smell the excitement all around, and people smiling more. I believe this is the season to celebrate life!
Easter this year will be quite interesting this year. Daves family will be on a cruise again, down in the bahamas this time. My family will be in Arizona. We will be house sitting at Daves parents house that whole week, starting general conference weekend. Im thinking we will decorate eggs and have ourselves a little easter egg hunt and celebrate Christs resurection and watch general conference of course! Well, if you have any other fun ideas we can do let me know! Happy Spring!

HCG Diet

I have been looking for some change in my life, and i finally found it! My wonderful cousin Megan inpired me to try this diet. So I decided to try it. 3 days after I orderred it it came in the mail. That was impressive! then I started that day. the first two days it says to binge. so thats what i did. oddly enough i didnt get sick or feel gross.. thanks to the drops, i suppose. The first day i ate... 2 cinnamon rolls, a double quarter pounder with cheese, fries, drink and ice cream, taco soup, nachos, and 2 more cinnamon rolls. Day 2 of the gorging i ate, 2 more cinnamon rolls,yakiniku, mac n cheese, caramel corn, and jello. This morning i weighed myself and if i had normally eaten all that, which never in my mind i would i probably would have gained like 6 pounds. But instead I LOST 5 POUNDS. in 3 DAYS!! I couldnt believe it! what a wonderful feeling that was. I hope i will be seeing this good of results until April 23rd. This portion of the diet im on a 500 calorie intake a day. So far, i feel full suprisingly. which is good. i hope the rest of the time is as easy as today!

The Brain

Well, if you know me I’m a procrastinator.. so all day today after school I spent eight and a half hours building this brain cake that’s due tomorrow. it was fun and challenging, I’m sure if I made it again, it wouldn’t even take half the time. I’m glad I don’t have kids yet, because I know I wouldn’t have been able to get that whole thing plus a paper done tonight. whew!
The cold bug has officially hit the Cooks home. I haven’t been sick for over a year because I work at a hospital, so I’m immune to almost everything. Lately it seems that everyone is sick.. must just be that time of the year again ... Joy!
Looks like the end of summer/beginning of fall we will be getting ourselves into a real house!! im so excited. Dave will be graduated by then and out of the police academy, or close to it, but he will be paid during.
Well, hope everything is going well with you all!

Life in a nut shell.

These past few weeks have been nuts, as you all know, dave was in a car accident and the lady is being cheap about it and its making us very unhappy about not getting it fixed and is trying to convince us that we need a new car that costs 500 dollars. we simply wont take it, and I feel a broken record telling her no, to just fix the dang thing. Sigh..
School is good! im making some cool school friends, i LOVE it there. It is a blessing in my life! it makes me stronger, it teaches me a lot more and everything im learning has spirituality to it too. im even getting through Isaiah, an understanding it too! On the other hand, Dave is doing well in school too, all though he wont be graduating this spring like we thought, he is missing credit for just one more class, and he'll take that in the summer. It has set us back a few months, but thats okay. at least he dosn't have a year or more left.
Work is still crazy as H... and hating every minute of it, Im not coming home crying as often as i did for a while, but im looking for another job, so let me know if you come across any! Daves job is driving him crazy too, so he is also looking for a better job he can escape to. At least he has a "bestie" there with him and tell you what, he is worse than any teenager i know .. i how ever dont. which is fine, im there to work then clock out.
when i get a chance to be home, i'll clean the house, look back and there it is dirty again. I swear my husband is a little kid! lol But he sure is cute.. especially when he gets in trouble, or wants something.
Speaking of kids, we are still trying somewhat.. ive given up. I have nursery kids, and thats all the kids I need for now. We are going to see a new doctor though, hopefully this one will do more for us than the last one ever did.
Our first valetines day together was fun! We ate a steak dinner we saved up for we marinated steaks for 3 days they were soo very good. Earlier that weekend we were up at bear lake with the whole Cook side. it was soo much fun and relaxing, the perfect get away! we. or at least I has needed that for a while, it was so beautiful and out of the city and away from the world!
Well, thats whats all been on my mind for the past few weeks.

Random Ramblings

You ever sit down to your computer to write a blog post and discover that you have no idea what to say? Yeah, us too.

Hannah got a haircut. Its cute, you should see it. She came to visit me at work with some food and surprised me with it. She further surprised me when she told me how much it cost. I had to force it out of her, but she told me. I'm not going to tell you, however, because I doubt you'd believe that she could do such a thing and you'd accuse me of making stuff up. On a completely unrelated note, we won't be able to buy groceries for about a month.
She claims that had she known how much it would have been, she wouldn't have done it.

So life goes on as usual. I'm in the last semester of classes for my Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice. I can't wait to be done. With the exception of the two years of my mission, I've been going to school almost constantly since 1987.
Just typing that made me depressed.
We're hoping Hannah's federal student financial aid comes through soon so she can keep attending the LDSBC. She loves that place more than she loves me, so we're keeping our fingers crossed. If you'd like to donate to the "Keep Hannah in School" fund, we accept cash, checks, and anonymous donations through the LDSBC. :-)

We're both taking our Utah Life Insurance test this coming week. After passing, we'll be licensed to sell life insurance. You should buy from us so we can afford things like food, insurance, rent, haircuts...
We can set you up with a financial plan that'll make you rich! Probably!

Hannah is still baby hungry and getting worse every day. Her goal this year is to have a baby. Nothing so far, but stay tuned. On a completely unrelated note, we're both losing weight.

In keeping with the life insurance thing, we're also hoping to get into a bigger apartment this year. If you'd like to donate to the "Help Hannah and Dave Get Into a Bigger Apartment" fund, we accept cash, checks, and vouchers for free rent.

Another goal we have set is to make enough with our Primerica insurance business (again, buy life insurance from us!) to let Hannah quit her job. It really stresses her out so the sooner she can get out of there, the better.

I'm still working for iRock and FlowRider in Ogden. I know for a fact that anything I say about it will probably make it back to at least a supervisor, so I'm saying nothing beyond that it is a job that I go to. Oh, and I could use a raise.

Its coming up on seven months since Hannah and I were married. It doesn't seem that long, though. We've had some challenges, and we expect to keep having challenges, but we are still very much in love. I don't know what I would do without this wonderful woman beside me. Shrivel up and die, I expect.

In closing, let me just say that if you'd like to donate to the "Give Dave and Hannah Money for No Reason" fund, we accept cash, checks, and large gold bricks.

Christmas, New Years, and blessings

We have been so blessed this year! Looking back, we have done many amazing things. Both going to school, falling in love even more by the day, getting married, and sharing that wonderful eternal day with our family. Going on a criuse. moving into a new ward, which has blessed us with our first calling (nursery leaders) and we love every second of it! adjusting our schedules to fing time to be together and also learning about each other and how to live with each other, so far that has been a happy experience.
For Christmas Eve , we went out to lunch with Daves' dads' side and went to there home after to play a white elephant game. Then off to my familys' house for a party and we slept there that night.
On Christmas, we opened presents at my house with my family (we got clothes, shampoo, body wash, a couple movies, new tires for my car, a cute bag, a couple games, a body pillow, jewelry, a rice bag, and cute hair pieces). then we went to his familys' house and called daves' brother who is on a mission in Brazil. Then we drove back to my parents house, got ready for the day, ate breakfast, then we packed up and went tohis parents house again, opened presents (yay for our first camra recorder, and a movie and a gift card to applebees). Then we had to leave because i had to work, we were not happy about it at all. Dave played christmas games then ate dinner with his family, i was lucky enough to have him bring me some, and got off work an hour early. Lucky me!!
We have recieved a couple humbling blessings this Chistmas season, and would like to thank who ever it was that did them.
Well, we hope you have had a wonderful Christmas season and a happy New Year.