Date Night

SER-EN-DIP-I-TY

-noun

an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident

I have been wanting to get Jimmer off my blog for a while, so I am going to post about our SERENDIPITY date! It was a lot of fun. For those of you who haven't seen the movie...well you should! It is really cute, and Kirk even really liked it. Our date was based around the movie, so we went to the same serendipity restaurant where the movie was filmed, it was such a neat little hole in the wall.

Their menues were huge...

Along with their desserts!

We were going to try and go ice skating at the same rink they go to in the movie, but that night it was freezing and we both weren't up for ice skating so we headed home and watched the movie!

So fun!

GATHER ROUND KIDS ITS JIMMER TIME!!!

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I just have to take a minute and express my appreciation to Jimmer Fredette!! I am seriously enfatuated with the way he plays basketball, and man he has a jumper that is silky smooth. When I am having a tough day I like to think of Jimmer and the 39 points he scored on the poor Rebels of UNLV, or the most recent deluge of 47 points on the stumbling Utes of Utah. The kid has range, stamina, and is just a likable guy. Right before half against Utah he nails a three from 40 ft out as Greg Wrubell so beatifully called, and what does he do? He walks stoically off the court; no thumping of the chest, jumping up and down with arms flailing, not Jimmer. He has ice running through his veins and he is in the hunt for player of the year. I implore any and all readers of this blog, my dear friends and family to seriously find the BYU basketball schedule and watch any and all the games on TV. If you live within a bordering state, try and make the drive and witness this amazing player. I would seriously love to fly in from NYC to watch just one more home game in the Marriot Center. In tribute to Jimmer I leave you these wonderful images. Falycia just thinks I'm silly, but I love college basketball and I love the Cougs!! GO BYU!!!

THE BALL HAS DROPPED!!

This year we decided to brave the real NY New Years Eve! Which meant standing in a crowd of people for 10 hrs. No leaving, no drinks or backpacks because of security and no restrooms. We had a blast! I will admit the first 8 and half hrs. of standing were not the most exciting and at times I wasn't sure if Kirk was going to make it through, but he did and in the end we were both so glad we did it. We had a really good view of the ball, were close to the stage, and had great people around us. It just so happened that where we were standing was right by where all the cameras went by. The last hour and half we had fun getting on the cameras! For those of you that missed us, we were on CNN a few times and on the kissing cam on Fox. The most fun was hearing from our families that saw us!

We saw sexy Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin

To pass the time the jumbo screen would have this game like whak-a-mole that you could dial in on your phone and play so Kirk did that to pass the time and on his first try he got FIRST PLACE!!! Woohooo! The numbers in the first place spot are the last 4 digits of Kirks number!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

CHRISTMAS TIME IN THE BIG APPLE

This weekend we headed up to the Rockefeller Center to see all the Christmas lights. Sadly I think everyone else in NYC had the same idea. It was packed with people! We didn't get to see all that I wanted to see because making our way through the crowds was insane. So we sanpped a few pics and then made our way to some food. The few we did get are blurry, so I am hoping to make it up there again after Christmas.

SEW WHAT?

The last couple of days I have been trying to update our blog, I have been wanting to post pictures of the Christmas tree and lights we saw up at Rockefeller Center but my computer hasn't let me upload any pics! I don't know why. The only picture I got to upload was this one... So now I'm posting about this! For those of you that know me you will be surprised to know that I made this skirt! Yes ME! All by myself!
Isn't it cute! I am not a sewer, when I do sew I normally just make up my own thing and go with it! But this time I actually followed directions and took measurements added and subtracted to get the cuts right. I know it's silly and this is a boring post for everyone else but I was proud of myself and surprised that it actually turned out! Hopefully I will be able to get my Christmas pics up soon! Until then you can all enjoy my skirt, and wish you had one this cute! :)

October

A couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to do a five mile walk in Central Park for strides against breast cancer. It was such an awesome experience! I had so much fun, and it was amazing to see all the support that came out. I hope to make a tradition. Thank you again do all those that helped and donated.

Here are just some random pictures of a few of our weekend outings. The first few are Central Park we went out to take some pictures of the fall colors, but they are just now really starting to change. It's crazy how a huge park in the middle of huge city can make you feel like you are out in the middle of the country. It was nice "get away." The next few are of the Brooklyn bridge. You can walk all the way across it above the cars and everything so you get a really neat view of the city. It was amazing! We walked across and then ate the best pizza down by the peirs on the Brooklyn side. It was alot of fun.

Home and Craft

I finally got a few things put away and the apt. somewhat put together so I could take pictures for those of you that have been asking. Here they are! It is small but it fits us just fine for now. Enjoy.

MY CRAFT! I had so much fun making this, it consumed me all day today so that I could have it ready to post on the blog tonight. It took all weekend to find a craft store here, they are very limited in Manhattan (which almost makes me want to open one of my own!) After trying three different stores in the city, that should be ashamed to call themselves craft stores, I decided to venture north to my friend Michaels! The hour long trip was worth every minute! It made me feel like I was back home again!