Thank you for all of the responses. I have tried all of the advice and gotten all of it to work for me and I have a better understanding now.

Essential, thanks for the additional tips and information regarding arrays and their usage, it was greatly appreciated. Your final code with the push method was exactly how I was originally trying to figure the problem out and I was very close except I was off by a couple of minor details. Apparently, I was writing the push method portion incorrectly. Thanks again for all of your help and have a wonderful holiday season everyone