A few of the best hours ever.

I got to mark off going to a U2 concert from my bucket list on Tuesday night. I can't explain how elated and giddy I was, but my cheeks hurt from smiling from ear to ear and my throat hurt from screaming so loud. I was about 14 people away from Bono, and the Edge...it was quite possibly the most magnificent evening ever. Can I just quit my job and become a groupie...in my dreams!

Mo-Tab & David Archuleta

In all my year's in Utah I have never been to the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas Concert.

So when I got the invite to go, of course I jumped on that train. Plus squeaky-clean & cute-as-a-button David Archuleta was the special guest so that only added to my excitement.

It was so great to hear the choir live and to be in the amazing conference center. It really felt like the Holiday season was official with all the Christmas music and cheer of being around temple square.

Random thing happened as the concert ended and I was getting my coat on.

This guy kept looking at me and finally came up to me and said, 'Alicia is that you?'

I chuckled{kindly of course} and said, 'No I'm sorry, I'm not Alicia.'

He quickly scurried off. Not sure if it was a weak, very weak pick-up line or if I have a doppleganger out there named Alicia.

She & Him

I went to the last concert of the Twilight Concert Series up in Salt Lake and was swooped to dreamy heaven with Zooey Deschanel's voice from the band She & Him.

Seriously take a listen if you haven't already and you'll know what I mean.

SpOoKy

October is the month of everything scary. Well I guess not everything is necessarily scary, pumpkins are cute right? But you know all that goes along with the Halloween spirit. Ghosts, witches, men in scary white masks. I actually love Halloween and all it entails. I've been getting into the spirit of it all as usual. Apparently so has my family. Let me tell you a spooky story.

Last week I went over to my parents house. I wanted to show my mom my sweater I got for our family photos on Saturday-to make sure it coordinated with the color scheme she had chosen.

I walk in the house, the lights are on. I yell, "Mom!" Nothing, not a sound.

I thought to myself, "Hmmm...Marta is going deaf, I should yell louder."

"MOM!!!"

Nothing.

So then I started yelling other names of family members.

Nothing.

I look down the basement stairs, it was dark. So I thought, "I bet she went on a walk."

I decided to warm up some food and wait for her. While warming up the food I hear very loud music coming from the basement. I look down the stairs and see the lights on and the computer on playing super loud music. At this point I was wondering if I was going crazy, because I could have sworn the lights were off a second ago.

I thought it was a fluke thing. So I run down the stairs turn the music off and lights off and run back upstairs to eat my food.

Two minutes later the music starts back up again and the lights are on again.

That's when I began to freak out a bit...okay actually a lot.

I called my brother Peter's cell phone. The convo went something like this.

"Peter where are you?"

"At the neighbors, why?"

"There is something freaky going on here at home, where's mom?"

"She's with me."

"Get home now, I am freaking out!"

At that point I hear two people coming up the stairs chuckling. Who else but my lovely mother and Peter. They were laughing and laughing and oh-so-proud of their prank achievement.

I could have killed them, but of course I had to laugh at the joke as well.

See everyone's getting into the Halloween spirit this year-including my 60 year old mom.

Well it started off the weekend on the right foot. Last Friday night I went to another spooky but amazing event, Thriller put on by the Odyssey Dance Company in Salt Lake. It was spectacular!

{These zombies were everywhere before the show, don't they look scary? They were, trust me.}