Welcome to our weird and wonderful world, soon you will be sticking your nose up at buying beer/ciders from tins and questioning the price tag on most alcohol!
I've said it before and I'll say it again - the most important bit about this hobby is to have fun, you will both defiantly learn a lot along the way but just chill out when things don't go as the instructions promised - they are more guidelines as to point you in the right direction
With most beers/ciders 2-2-2 method can be implemented
2 weeks fermenting
2 weeks conditioning
2 weeks carbonating
Keep us posted and ask as many and any questions you both have, we all started somewhere and remember there's no such thing as a stupid question :)
There are also volumes of threads for referencing :)