Five for Fridays

1.  Happy Thanksgiving!  As you can see by the above photos, my mom and sister came out to celebrate Thanksgiving with us!  As usual, we spent Thursday taking our annual family pictures (by far my favorite color scheme yet!!!!)  And then we mooched off of the Choate's Thanksgiving feast!
2.  I am currently in the process of cooking our Burrill Thanksgiving dinner right now.  We have turkey and sweet potato in the oven, the corn bread and corn casserole has been made.  All of the desserts are ready to go.  Rob is bringing over the salad and the green beans, and Kris has the traditional Kalua cake!  Still yet to be made is the stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy.
3.  Short weeks are always good weeks, however I can not believe that the semester is almost over!  In some ways I can not wait for this semester to be over, and in other ways I don't want it to end.  I have some great students this year that I don't want to give up!
4.  MSU basketball continues the tradition of all MSU sports....  they are keeping it stressful with a nail biter against Boise State.  But I guess, a win's a win.
5.  We are not Black Friday people, but our laptop has been on the fritz lately, so Brady thought maybe he should go to Office Depot and check it out.  (So when Breslin awoke....) at 5 a.m. I took care of the little man while Brady ventured off into the shopping crowds.... and he came home with in all in one computer that I am currently using to update this blog!  Go Brady!  I tell you what, I love shopping as much as the next person, but I would rather pay full price for something then venture out in the middle of the night to get a great deal... I cherish my sleep way to much!  However, I don't knock anybody who does!  To each his own!

I hope everybody had a fabulous Thanksgiving and will have a great Holiday season!

Five for Fridays (or Sunday)

1.  Well MSU football continues to disappoint :(  We now look ahead to next year I guess....  I like to look at the positive side of things (sometimes).  If we do win next week, the one good thing about getting the piece of crap bowl game... is they might play at Ford Field... which means I would be able to go to it...
2.  On the flip side, after a shaky start against UConn, the MSU basketball team pulled it together to hang with #7 ranked Kansas, and beat them in the end!
3.  This last month our book club read Rob Lowe's auto biography, I can't remember what it was called, something like, "Stories I Only Tell My Friends", but it was a really good book, considering I don't read auto biographies.
4.  All three of us have been battling some sort of nasty cold... I'm really hoping mine is at the tail end....
5.  Breslin continues to grow.  It amazes me how big he is getting, how vocal he is getting, and how mobile he is.  I am thinking we have one month tops left of the crib.  He is ssssssssssssooooooooo close to crawling out!!!

Five for Fridays (or Sunday)

1.  I know... I know... it's been awhile.  I've just had a few major crazy stressful weeks at school.  I am going to try (as always) to do a better job updating the blog.
2.  Well....  I guess I have resorted to counting on MSU hockey.  MSU hockey beat U of M last night, not only beat U of M... more like crushed them.  Any time MSU beats Michigan in anything it's a good day :)  On the flip side, its been a rough go of it with my other MSU sports.  Michigan State football lost another heartbreaker last Saturday to Nebraska, and MSU basketball lost it's opener against UConn.
3.  We were extremely excited about the re election of our President on Tuesday, not to mention the very important passage of Prop 30, and non passage of Prop 32.  California education had a great day on Tuesday, definitely a step in the right direction. 
4.  Breslin is saying more words than ever now.  His personality grows everyday.  And he is super active (with him being super active, our house looks it....  you can definitely tell as I look around this house that we have a crazy mobile, active toddler....  we are that house where if you step in the wrong spot you might break your ankle with the amount of toys that are all over).
5.  Valencia High School's football team won the league title last week and went undefeated in the league (they were supposed to place second or third), they won on Friday night for their first play off game.  I've been able to make a few games this year and they have been fun!
*And on a side note.... it has finally cooled down!!!!  Hopefully it stays like this for awhile.  But who knows!