Happy Pumpkin Carving

Its so nice to have something happy and positive on this blog for a change... what with all of the tornadoes and wild fires! We went over to the Mandels house on Sunday night and did pumpking carving (even though it doesn't feel close to Halloween seeing that the temperature registered in at 95 degrees yesterday.....) Anyway here are some of the pics.

Megan carving awayBrady helping out Blake.... by this time, the women were tired of helping carve the pumpkins... arms were a little sore
The kids with all of their pumpkins
and their pumpkin tops
This is the best pic I got of all the ladies... Nathan took it, its a nice shot of our legs as well!!!
Everybody circled around on the floor carving away
Brady with his gooey mess
Nathan pulling out some of the insides of his pumpkin
eeeeewwwwww
I think Mitzi is ready to be done

Happy Halloween!!!!!

Things are getting back to normal

So, the fires in southern California are no longer a threat to the Santa Clarita Valley. We still have to be careful about being outside because of the air quality, but besides that our family (which of course now includes Bradys family) are all back to their homes and jobs. The schools were back in session today, but I made a decision to not sub today, because I do not want to deal with the kids on their first day back after this disaster. Anyway, thanks to all of those who showed concern. Now were back to our everyday lives, thankfully!!!!

West Ranch on the news...

I stole this picture from Mitzi's blog, but this is a picture of the news and of the fire in Stevenson Ranch from yesterday... as you can see, the fire was right next to West Ranch, right at the tip their is all of the practice fields..... can you see the baseball field? Crazy, huh! I figured I would steal this pic from Mitzi's blog for those of you that don't read hers.

Finally settling down

The above two pictures are of the Castaic fire still burning in the distance (for those of you that don't know, Castaic is where Mitzi lives... don't worry this fire isn't by her anymore), this fire is still burning, but it is not a threat to homes anymore.

This picture is taken of the sky.... still smoky, this fire is called the Magic fire because it started over by the theme park Magic Mountain, in Stevensons Ranch... this is the fire that I took pictures of yesterday, where it was almost touching West Ranch.

Fire right next to West Ranch

This fire is right next to West Ranch where Brady works.... It looked as if West Ranch was going to burn down... but as of right now... West Ranch is safe.

Santa Clarita Ablaze

Here is the smoke clouds rollin in earlier on in the day....Here are the clouds above Mitzi's house probably around three ish or so
And here is the fire in Canyon Country around 7:00

Tornado hits my hometown of Williamston

These pictures are courtesy of my mother:

My small town of Williamston

Homecoming in East Lansing

Brady, myself, Lauren, Shaun, and Kurtz tailgating before the game!Brady, mom, and myself in our seats before the game!

Blowing up my third down spear
Brady excited to use his

We flew into Michigan on Saturday morning. Went and died my hair brunette, then went to Champps to watch the Michigan game and hang out with the Williams, then to the bookstore to spend way to much money on MSU apparal, then off to tailgating, the game, and the bars afterwards. We then flew out on Sunday. It was a quick trip but well worth it!!!! Yeah!!!! Go State.