Another Week Down.

Another busy week and weekend has flown by in the Cook home-but discussion between Seth and I have concluded that being busy means WE have a life.  Us-Seth and Erika-The Cook's-have our own busy and fun filled life of our very own together--and we both like the idea of this.  Also with one week down and another getting started only brings us closer to having our family in town!  After an itinerary email was sent out between my cousin and I-I realized that :

1) We have a lot of things to squeeze in to only one week 

2) The Super Bowl is Feb 6 (when they will be here) and I forgot about that big event-need to plan par-tay.

3) How excited we both are to see each other-gossip-hang out-have a short vaca!

4) There will be a lot of pictures taken and a lot to blog about :).

This past week our homegroup/bible study group started a series on marriage-which is right up our alley :).  I think I'm going to enjoy it.  In our group we, of course, are the youngest couple-as well as the shortest marriage (32 years-6 years-5 years-5 months).  It was interesting to see different perspectives on marriages as well as each couples uniqueness in their relationship.  Example:  On everyone's wedding day-there soon to be husbands tried to talk to them during the service to tell the bride how beautiful she was and express their excitement.  Everyone except mine :) (this ex. shows uniqueness in our relationship).  On the way down the aisle-I struggled with keeping tears off my face(don't know why--I was super excited to be getting married).  When my dad gave me away Seth barely smiled-hardly held my hands (they were a little sweaty)-and definitely didn't try this whispering of his undying love for me or telling me how gorgeous I was.  He took it seriously-literally.  We were making a lifetime commitment to each other and he wasn't about to joke around with that--Or it could have been that our ceremony was maybe 8 minutes and he didn't have the time :).  I didn't get a 'you look beautiful' spill until we were driving to Georgia and I asked what he thought about me and my dress??!!  But anywho-that is one example of what I mean when I say each unique relationship.  We will start our role in children's church this coming Sunday-so I'm sure that will be in for a fun story.

This past weekend we went to Crystal Hot Springs with our buddies from North Carolina.  We had a great time-especially once we found out these springs have the best minerals in America (if I remember correctly)-it was like treating your skin to a spa :).  We also got to see the sunset, which was beautiful!

Sunset-Springs and Mountains :).

Pretty Mountains

Us under a hot spring 'waterfall'

Serious faces-Plus Gina's stache.

In addition to Gina's stache...Joe and Seth (majorly Joe) are starting a Beard and Mustache Society at Utah State.  It has been a very intense situation.  They have had meetings to get it going and Joe and Gina even had us over for an 'intersantum meeting'.  I'm sure I will have more to say about this later as it continues to evolve.  Maybe Gina and I will start a Cooking Club or something cooler-What you think about that Gina? Get back to me :).

Saturday we bought frames for pictures and decorating-rearranged some of our furniture-and cleaned a tad.  We made some delicious Chicken Noodle Soup and went to the Utah State basketball game.  Enjoyed ourselves and will probably go to another.

Making the noodles

Noodles Drying

Very yummy indeed.  Lastly, Sunday was a very lazy day for us-we went to the early service at church and stayed after to prepare for our children's lesson next week.  We came home and watched 2 movies-Social Network and Salt.

Looking forward to a somewhat busy week.  We are going to our 'adopted folks' home on Wednesday for some grilled pizza and we hear this is where the good stuff is at :). I'll let you know how it goes!

Have a good week everyone!

My Fav Mountains Again-It's been awhile since you've seen them I think.

The Cook's :)