Christmas Dance for You!

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Christi made one of these for my parents' blog and Rob loved it so much he wanted me to make one too. He really likes the dance that my parents did, but we had to mix it up a little, so we went with the second favorite. After you watch ours, make sure to check out my parents!

#1 Reason why I can't wait till this semester is OVER!!!!!!!!!

#1 Reason why I can't wait till this semester is OVER!!!!!!!!!
This may sound cheesy, but I seriously can't wait till I have my husband back. This semester seems like it has been so busy. Whenever Rob & I do find time to hangout it seems like there is always something to worry about (mostly me worrying). I just can't wait till we have nothing better to do than hangout with each other! =).

R & S are ready for SANTA!!!

We might not be all unpacked, but our Christmas decorations are up and last night we finally got time to decorate our tree!! It is beautiful! Pictures never make it look as good as it is in person. Rob's parents gave us a train last year to put under our tree (a Cook tradition) and we even got that up! Now we are ready for Santa to come!! :) I <3 Christmas time!!!

Not Much to Update On...

Rob and I are alive! We had a great thanksgiving with Rob's family this year and we moved into a house over thanksgiving break as well. Rob's parents have a rental house and we got the opportunity to move in, so we are really grateful for that. There are boxes EVERYWHERE! I hate when my house is not perfectly organized, but I think I am going to have to deal with it for a little while. The semester is basically over and I cannot believe it. Rob had his first final (an early one) today and has one tomorrow. The next week an a half is not going to be fun, but we both can't wait till Christmas break! We will be happy to finally spend time with each other and NOT have to worry about school. We will update when we are more exciting!

Sweetheart Tag

What is your husbands name? Robert Andrew Cook

How long have you guys been married? 1 year, 3 months, and 4 days!

How long did you date? We dated for 9 months and then we were engaged for 3.

How old is he? 24!

Who is taller? Rob

Who can sing best? haha... well neither of us are great singers, but I am going to have to say that I am definitely better.

Who is smarter? Rob is definitely common/general knowledge smarter and he always likes to make me feel dumb for things I say and do. But we are both smart when it comes to school.

Who does laundry? I generally do the laundry. But recently I think that Rob has done the last couple of loads. He always is putting in whites and work clothes randomly because he always claims he is out. But really, Rob is always willing to help when it comes to laundry. He even claims that he "enjoys" it sometimes but he never likes folding.

Who pays the bills? That's me. Rob usually takes them to the post office though if we have to mail any.

Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? What do you consider the right side?!?! When you are standing at the end of the bed and looking at it... I am on the left and Rob is on the Right!

Who mows the lawn? We don't have grass, but if we did, Rob better do it :)!

Who cooks dinner? When dinner is made, I make it! The few times that I have asked Rob to cook dinner he goes and gets something.

Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Him... I am stubborn and hate to be wrong, but once he stops being angry pants, then I am always quick to follow.

Who kissed who first? Rob and it was totally unexpected too.

Who wears the pants? lol.... ummm.... well...I am going to say that I think it is pretty equal.... sometimes I do and sometimes he does.

I tag Everyone!

Revenge of the NERDS!!

Rob and I were off the project this year with Halloween. We had midterms leading up to Halloween and didn't get costumes or a pumpkin :(. Two years ago, on our first Halloween when we were dating, we dressed up as Nerds and we only went to an institute activity, so we decided to pull out the Nerd outfits and recycle them for this year. After our ward Trunk-or-treat... Rob and Justin wrapped themselves in foil, in hopes of looking come what like a Chipotle burrito, and I wore a foil hat, and we went to Chipotle and got FREE burritos. If you dressed up as a burrito, taco, salad, etc. you got anything FREE. That is all we did on Halloween.... besides eating candy of course.

P.S. Little Emma was sweet enough to let us take a picture of her pumpkin (not that she knew), so we could claim that it was ours.

P.S.S. I just remembered this while I was posting the pictures.... the first time Rob confessed his love for me what when I was dressed as a Nerd two years ago. I thought it was a random time back then, but maybe he likes me better that way...who knows. He is silly.

Emma and Collin came for the ward party for a while and
Emma was being a punk and wouldn't smile, but she was still such a cute fairy. Her hair was all curly cute too, but you can't really tell from this picture.

Rob's Silly!!

I always catch Rob listening to Love Song by Taylor Swift.... it's his new FAVORITE. Right now he is actually saying "You gotta admit, this girl is pretty amazing." hehehe... he doesn't know that I am posting this. I love this song as well, but I think it is funny how much Rob likes it. The other day he came home from school and got on his computer and blasted it. He was like "finally, this has been in my head all day." Enjoy if you wish... click here!

Video

A while back I said that Rob made me a video as part of my anniversary present and I finally figured out how to put it up... so here it is. Rob has made me a video for most of big holidays, so this only has pictures on it since the last one he made. At the end it just plays music for a long while just so you know.

Did you say FREE pass to to the happiest place on EARTH?!?!

Just in case anyone didn't know........Disneyland is giving anyone that registers a FREE admission to Disneyland on their birthday in 2009!!!! Click here to register.

Mexico!

This past weekend we went with Rob's family to Mexico. His family goes every October and June, but we haven't been able to go the last couple of time, so it was fun to finally get to go. Rob and I left Friday after school and came back Sunday. It was a short trip, but defiantly worth it. We had fun playing on the beach and hanging out! We didn't take a whole lot of pictures, but here are some..... Jill when we were on the beach with this awesome sunset I thought of you... you could always just drive to Mexico if you have to, to get a picture.... or come to Tucson, our sunsets are beautiful! ;)

BEAUTIFUL!!

This is a picture of
Rob's parents and all of his aunts and uncles

I love David!

I love David Archuleta and his new song!! He SOOO should have won American Idol. Hate me if you want... I know there are a lot of David Cook fans, but seriously how can you not love this! :)

I can't embed the song so if you want to hear it Click here!

Oh mannnn... so much has happened

Warning... This is going to be long because I have a lot to catch up on and I got pictures and I am too lazy to make a slide show... it takes forever.

August 9th- HAPPY ONE YEAR to Rob and I! We both can't believe we have already hit that point. On our anniversary, Rob planned a day full of fun. We slept in and then went up to Mt. Lemon for a picnic. It was raining but it was still fun. After lunch we went on the ski lift.... that was FREEZING.... it had to be like 50 degrees and since I didn't know what we were doing of course I didn't bring warm clothes. I mean, come on it is August... who needs warm clothes?!?!? Despite the cold it was fun too. We spent the afternoon on the mountain and then we came home and Rob took me to see Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 and then took me to the melting pot! He made this super sweet video for me ( I wish I knew how to put it on here).... and gave me a beautiful necklace. It is the stone of August for when we got married and it is called the Journey of Love... Thanks Rob! I got him a watch and made him some little scrapbook pages since it is the year of paper, and a little tool box with tools to make it though another year with me :)! They were just paper tools and most of them had candy with it. Like a paint brush with a bag of kisses attached.... to brush my cheeks with kisses for another year... cheesy I know! It was a great day!






August 25th- Back to School!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOO!! That was a sad day in the Cook house! But things are going well so far.

August 29h- Rob took me out for my birthday! My birthday was on Monday September 1st, which is labor day... yippy no school, but Rob had to work and then we had school the next day so we decided to go out Friday! Rob was super cute. Since I was turning 21 he was creative in planning this one. He wrote poems to go with the events that we were doing and I had to guess where we were going.... we played 21 and if I won I got tokens, throughout the night I could gamble my tokens and win or lose some. We went to dinner at olive garden and then we went mini. golfing. At each hole we had to putt a different way, Left handed, between the legs, pool style, eyes closed, etc. Lots of fun. Then Rob took me to 31 Flavors, but crossed out 31 and put 21. It was lots of fun. Thanks Rob... you are the Best!! Oh ya... and I must be looking older because our waiter at dinner was trying to give me alcohol and a). he didn't know it was my birthday soon and b). he didn't ask for ID or anything. Of course I didn't take it, but I was like look Rob I must be looking older!

August 30th- GOOOOOOOOOO CATS!!! The first UofA game of the season. This is always an exciting game. Usually one of the few that we win :). Anyway, we went to the game, but then it started to rain :(... the game was delayed for like an hour and then it started up again. However, it was raining the whole time.... so at half time we left. Since the Cats were up so much, for every ticket that you had you could go to Jack in the Box and get 2 free tacos. My parents, Justin, Daniel, Christi, Rob and I all carpooled to the game so we had 7 tickets. We didn't really want tacos but we thought that it would be funny to see if they would give us 14 free tacos.... and they DID!! hahahaha


September 1st- My 21st Birthday! My mom and I went shopping in the morning and she bought me a coach purse for my birthday. I love it, but I am not going to lie, I am a little scared to use it. I don't want to ruin it. In the after noon my Family (minus the Mosley's who are at Disneyland.... lucky) and Rob and I went to a movie and to Texas Roadhouse for dinner and of course my family told them it was my birthday and made me ride the saddle! It was a great birthday! Thanks everybody!



Random- After the football game, we went back to my parents house and look what we found in the freezer... an exploded diet coke on top of the ice cream carton. Rob has always told me that sodas explode when you put it in the freezer, but I was beginning to doubt him because they never have exploded on me. But my mom proved that they do


Tomorrow- Is Rob's birthday! Yup, our birthdays are super close! HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sweety! You are the best husband a girl could ever ask for! Love you Pumpkin!

What a handsome 24 year old!!!

Well... it's about time I update

As usual I am slacking with updating! After Rob and I were done with summer school back in July, we jetted over to California for a vacation to celebrate our one year. It wasn't quite our one year, August 9th was the actual date, but we got a smoking deal on a nice resort in San Diego so we went early. Rob and I had sooooooooooo much fun. For the first three days we were in San Diego. We went to Sea World.... Rob has not been since he can remember, so that was fun and new for him. I love the dolphins. If I could I would have a pet dolphin if I could. We also went to the Beach, rented beach cruisers, went to Sea Port Village, and went to the temple. I was so excited to finally get to go in the San Diego temple. I went to the open house when I was younger but only could remember a few things. Sand Diego has always been my favorite temple!! While we were in the temple there was an earthquake in LA and we could feel it. The chandlers and everything in the temple were swaying back and fourth.... I had no idea what was going on until it was over. After it was over the temple worker just calmly and simple said "Welcome to California... You couldn't have been in a safer place." Pretty much it was crazy, but cool experience. For the last two days we went to LA and went to Six Flags. That was fun, but Rob and I rode way too many roller coasters and by the end of the day our heads were killing us! Anyway, we had a blast and were so happy to get a way for a while!

Good Day for the Cook's

I am happy to announce that Rob is DONE with calculus. Today he took his final and feels like he did pretty good. We won't know his grade till later, but I am so proud of him. He really put A LOT of time into this class this summer. I also want to say thanks to my Dad. He was a great big help for Rob in this class and spend countless hours and nights staying up with Rob. THANKS DAD! Anyway, we are so happy that there will be no more homework. Oh ya, and I finished my class too, so that is fun as well, but I will admit that mine was a thousand times easier. In celebration of Rob's last day I made him some Awesome tissue paper flowers at work in arts and crafts and a card too. Tonight in celebration of our first week night with nothing to do we are going to go see Batman.... HAPPY DAY!

Tag Your It!

Well I am bored and waiting for Rob to finish studying so this is going to entertain me....
Tag I'm It
I am: SHELLY!! I guess I am also a wife, daughter, sister, aunt.......and on
I think: my dad is the coolest for helping Rob with his calculus
I know: I am a lucky girl!
I want: a touch i-pod
I have: a cute hubby!
I wish: summer school was out and Rob and I could ENJOY summer and that I could Tan!
I hate: getting a sunburn
I miss: my friends... they need to all come back to Tucson!
I fear: scary, creepy people
I feel: bored
I hear: Coldplay
I smell: the scent of home
I crave: Ice Cream, but really when do I not.
I search: for cheap Awesome stuff
I wonder: if life is ever going to slow down.
I regret: not taking more pictures of everything
I love: Robby and Shopping!!
I care: about my family very much!
I always: stress and say random things... it drives Rob crazy :)
I am not: ready to grow up or at least have grown-up responsibilities. I want to stay young forever and be a professional child.
I believe: never giving up until you have done your BEST!
I dance: a lot. I love it. I wish I were better but it is okay because Rob sucks at it (sorry for being so honest Rob... you know I love your lack of coordination)
I sing: in my car... ALWAYS!
I don’t always: eat healthy
I fight: for what I want
I write: when I am bored. I sign my name all over papers.
I lose: in foot races with Rob :(
I win: speed when I play Rob :)
I never: get up the first time my alarm goes off (this was Christi's response, but it is soooo me too) I purposely set me alarm at least 30-60min before I want to get up so I can hit snooze every 5-7min. It is a HORRIBLE habit.
I listen: to mostly everything
I can usually be found: at work, at home, at the computer, or cuddling up with my wonderful (hahah) summer school textbook
I am scared: of not getting good grades.
I need: to stay in the habit of working out... it is so easy to get out of it when summer is over
I am happy about: the monsoon season
I tag: whoever else wants to do it.

Fishy Fun!!

For the 4th of July, Rob and I went camping with my family and my aunt and her family up in the White Mountains. It was so nice to get away, especially from homework. We had so much fun and Rob was super excited that he finally got to use all the camping stuff that we got for our wedding, which worked great. It rained on us everyday, but it was still really nice. On the 4th we went into Showlow and watched the fireworks and had a picnic at a lake. Other then that, we had a lot of fun fishing, playing games, having races, hanging with the family, and trying to scare my sister who is deathly afraid of bears :). Saturday when we were fishing, Rob slipped on a rock and messed up his thumb pretty bad. It is all swollen and black and blue, but luckily shortly after that he caught a fish, so it was all worth it, I hope. We were glad that we got to get away and have a great time with the family. Here are some pics....

Sorry that it has been so long since I posted. Life has been busy for the last little while. The most exciting news is that Rob and I are DONE with this semester.... it is one of the best feelings ever. We are excited to be out, but now we are in Summer School :(. Oh well. Last weekend, before we started summer school, Rob and I got to go to Phoenix and stay in a resort. When we got married we stayed at this resort and Rob filled out one of those dumb survey things that they give you and we won 2 free night. He has good luck I guess, because I would have never won. It was a lot of fun. The weather was kinda cold, but it actually worked out great and we were able to do a lot of stuff outside in May without it being 105 degrees outside. Friday we went to the temple and went out to eat and then Rob took me on a Gondola ride and a guy sung an Italian love song to us. It was really cute and I was super impressed with Rob's planning.
Saturday, when we woke up we really wanted some bagels, so we tried to go and find a place. We had gone to a bagel place once when we were up there down by ASU, so we decided to try and find it. That was a bad idea though. We looked for like an hour and then when we finally found it was torn down. oh well. We then went shopping, which I always love. We went to the Tempe Market Place shopping area and that is a really cool place. I would not suggest it during summer since it is outside, but that was school. We went to shopping at some other places and then later we went to this really cool park and ate dinner and went on a paddle boat. Rob Loved it.
Anyway, in other news, we are super excited that my sister is getting married next week and can't wait to celebrate with her!! I love weddings and getting all dressed up for them. I will post some picture from the wedding next week!

Carrie Underwood!!

I LOVE Carrie Underwood. I remember watching her on American Idol and hoping that she would win. I thought she was so beautiful! She is one of my favorite artists and Friday night Rob and I got to see her in concert. I was so happy and her concert was sooooo good! She sung with Josh Tuner and he is really good too. He has such a deep voice it is crazy. They both are great performers and sound exactly like they do on the radio. I would even go as far as saying that they sound better then Tim and Faith live. Anyway, we had lots of fun. My little brother came with us and Shanna and Brian were at the concert too, but not next to us, so that was fun. Rob was a happy camper because she sung his favorite song, "American Girl," don't tell him I told you. :) We forgot to take pictures, so sorry I don't have much to show.

In other news, Rob and I are almost done with school. This is our last week of class and then just finals. We are so excited for it to be summer. We are both going to take summer school, but one class shouldn't be so bad. Other than that, nothing too special is going on. Our Cat-friend is still bothering us and Rob swears that if it doesn't go away soon he is going to march upstairs to the people's door that he thinks own the cat and tell them that their cat is annoying. I know he won't do it though.

Does anyone have a shot gun that we can borrow????

Rob and I have a furry friend that likes to come and visit us EVERY night. I would not consider him a friend, but for some reason he must think that we like seeing him because without fail he comes to visit each night. There is this cat that lives in our apartment complex. We are not sure if the cat belongs to someone, but I am ready to kill it (I would never really kill it..... but only because Rob won't let me). It is funny because the cat only shows up when Rob and I are studying. It used to only come around at night, but yesterday it arrived at 5. It sits outside our apartment on the curb below us and MEOWS uncontrollably. It is not your typical meow either, it sounds like it is dying. Rob felt bad for the cat when it first came around because we thought that is was really dying or something because of the horrific noise that it was making. So, Rob tired to go look at the cat, but that was a mistake because it wanted into our apartment. Now it just MEOWS non stop until we stop studying. It doesn't matter what time we go to bed, the cat is a faithful friend and stays up with us no matter how late. Last night it was hot in our apartment so we opened the sliding door and left the screen shut. The next thing I know the stupid cat was trying to claw through the screen and torturing us with that annoying MEOW. So, if anyone has a shot gun and likes to kill stuff, Rob and I have a good target awaiting you.

All we can say when we see this cat is GURRRRRRRR!!

I am so Happy...

I am so happy that I finally figured out how to make my own background. It took time but I had nothing else to do because I was trying not to bother Rob because he was supposedly studying (I should be too), but then look what I found.... Rob was studying so hard.... :)

I will give him credit though. He has been studying all day, so he is probably tired. Anyway, I am just happy I figured out how to make my own background.