Oh so blessed.

Since we've been married, I've thought a lot about all the opportunities that are here in Rexburg for us. And just in all areas life, at this point in time. We have so much ahead of us - moving, grad school, children, different jobs along the way, big tests, and unexpected things. Probably.

And it's kind of overwhelming to look at all the opportunities and think which ones are for us? We've prayed for that every day - for the Lord to help us know which ones we should go for, which ones we're qualified for...etc.

It's been an interesting experience. We've had several opportunities come our way, some which we took, others which we didn't. For example, I had the chance to be the coach of the competitive swim team. Almost took it. Got it. Then turned it down.

But here's what's going down in the Cook home lately:

Tom applied and had an interview for an internship on campus next semester. I do get jealous sometimes, hearing about people going cool places for a summer for their internship, but I'm really grateful that we have this chance. It's a paid internship with the school's Biggest Winner program (much like Biggest Loser, but we're more optimistic), and it is Tom's absolute dream job. Watching him get so excited about it just makes me happy. I got to help Tom build his resume, write a cover letter, and work through potential interview situations. It was super fun cause I'm a nerd and love that kind of stuff. And he NAILED his interview. We should hear if we got it or not next week, so pray for us!

Today we had our interview to be the apartment managers. It would be SWEET. Free rent and utilities, a bigger apartment WITH REAL WINDOWS, Y'ALL. Plus it would be a really awesome to get to know the people in our ward better, and to learn lots of really great skills that would be super useful for our future. We'll find out tomorrow if we got it or not....we're not feeling super strongly about this one because of our limited time in Rexburg, but we are confident that the Lord has a plan! And if this doesn't work out, there will be some other way to help us save/earn money.

We've been looking at grad schools and have it narrowed down to 3, essentially. 2 in Texas, 1 in Utah. Our families are rooting for their respective states, and we are torn ourselves. Except for that we don't want to go to the University of Utah. Time will tell!

I have changed positions at work recently (I may have mentioned that before), and am loving my new responsibilities SO much. That's not sarcasm, I really do love it. But I am getting the feeling that it's time to leave that office. I've been in the Online Learning department for over 3 years now, and all but 8 months of that in the same place, my beloved Online Support Center. Since I graduate in 2 semesters anyway, I've been looking for potential new jobs. I don't have a reason to leave the OSC that I would talk about on a public blog, but it's just that time, you know? So lots of potential jobs I'm looking at right now, and it's really exciting, but uncomfortable too.

Tom wishes for me to mention that we could be in the market for a new hamster, see the last post.

Ha, good one Tom.

We are so blessed, and oh so happy. La vie a Chez Cook est magnifique!