Salt Lake in December

It's amazing. I just love it! The Gallivan Plaza has ice skating outside, temple square is lit up beautifully, and the capitol has lit up their single Christmas tree. Anyone know what's up with that by the way? They have one small tree in the south east corner of the capitol that is lit up. And that's it. And it's small.
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago, our singles ward went to temple square to see the lights. I want to go back again to see the nativity scene all the way through. I only spent a quick minute. It was actually really warm when we went so I only had to have my sweater. Which ROCKED!

JAZZ!!

I am really getting bad at blogging lately, but I need to be doing things in order to blog about them right?
One of the coolest things I have done lately, well quite a few weeks ago, was go to the Jazz game. I didn't just go to the Jazz game, I got front row seats to the Jazz game! It was completely amazing and I feel so lucky that I was able to go. Thanks again Dad! I REALLY had the time of my life! I invited Joe, Jon and Jen to go with me and we had dinner on top of the stadium before the game started. There was a buffet with the best food and I was extremely impressed with the ice cream bar that they gave before the game to take down.
When we went to our seats, we ended up sitting RIGHT next to the Jazz players. Like we were so close, we were talking to them. It was so great.

I got some good pictures of my boyfriend too.



Although they did lose, towards the end the Jazz called a time out. CJ came walking around the team, and I was clapping my hands, and I said "It's OK, you guys are still looking good!" He LOOKED and me and nodded his head a few times. We totally had a moment. I think he likes me! Haha.

Caught a quick pic of my other boyfriend, Kyle.

Carrie-oke!

When I was in college my fun, awesome, cool roommate Carrie once was telling me one night that she wants to marry someone with the last name of 'oke' so she her name would be Carrie Oke. Ever since then, every time I think about Carrie or kareoke, I think of that. We just are silly sometimes.
I never realize how much I love kareoke until I'm there and I love it even more on stage with a great song. Last Tuesday, Part of Your World by my favorite little mermaid Ariel was my great song of the night. I'm not sure if many of you know, but this is, has been and always will be my favorite movie ever. My grandma says that when she babysat I would come home from school and watch it everyday, twice a day. That's a lot of Little Mermaid but I still don't get bored of it. My friend Margie came up with me because I was a little nervous to go up by myself, but after i got going and realized I still new every single word of the song by heart, I had a little fun with the audience.
Joe and Jon got up to sing hard core. Oh, it made me laugh. They were the stars of the night I would have to say.
Here they are rocking their socks off.

I got to bed so late and was extremely exhausted at work, but I would for sure do it again. This next time, I hope we can get on stage a few more times.

Happy Holidays!

Thanks Hez!!! Wink!
Everyone knows I'm incredibly behind on this. I make no apologies, I'm a busy person. I just wanted to start getting into the festive holiday mood and post some pics starting with Halloween.
Our pre-Halloween weekend I think was better than the Halloween weekend (maybe because the flu shot made me sick?), but both were just fun.

I just loved Rainbow Brite and found her awesome costume online. It was such a fun outfit, but very uncomfortable, it kept falling up and driving me nuts. So that costume only lasted the night. And the week previous to it when I wore it everyday.

Roomies! We were both so excited for the outfits.

Costume of the year went to these two. Blades of Glory is in my top ten favorite movies, and I was so excited to see they dressed up like the two! It was awesome. By the way, if any of you know the guy in the blue suit, HOOK ME UP.

So not many people came to the family home evening we had on Monday dressed up. Dre and I were enjoying our morbid Halloween together. I threw this costume together in about 5 minutes and it totally rocked, so it won the prize-it got to be worn for all Hallow's Eve.


Halloween night:

Me being a zombie, Mark (can't remember who he was), Jen was Selene from Underworld (personally one of my top five favorite movies), and Joe was Justin Timberlake from the 90's! It was fun to be had by all at the Durham household.


My little sister is in a stage makeup class and made this scary little number for me on my face. It scares even me. Thanks Anna!!

Speaking of Halloween, I bought this wreath last year, during the Christmas season I might add, and it looks like I should have used it in October. Hmm. Thoughts? Every time I come home and leave my place, I stare at it wondering what to think of it. Christmas? Halloween? Both?

Giveaway!

So I just need to get my stuff that I don't need anymore out of this apartment. That stuff I listed below for sale? I know Laura wanted the shelf, not sure if you still do Laura, but it's now all free. Merry Christmas!! But really, if you want any of this stuff, let me know. Oh, and I think I might just keep the curling iron and glass vases since they are brand new. Unless someone still wants to buy them.
Oh and since I am all moved in, I wanted to show off the fun, adorable and Anthropologie-ish apartment. Mainly to the small fam on the east side. I just love it!!!
Living room:

Slash dining room slash storage room for bike:

Sweet awesome small kitchen: I just bought a set of amazing Wusthof knife set from Sur La Table. I still haven't had the opportunity to try them out, but that is my favorite part of the kitchen. So far.

My amazing bedroom/bed that I just can't wait to get into every night. And yes, I do sleep with that teddy bear every night. It's a comfy, cuddly one.