MSU advances to the Sweet 16

Spartan necklace - $75

A pair of wrist bands... $10

Spartan head band $10

It's all about Sparty tshirt - $30

Green and White knee high socks - $10; Spartan Nike Shox - $110

Spartan wrist watch - $50

Michigan State sweats - $45

(Not pictured... Spartan green bra and underwear..... $60)

MSU beating Southern Cal.... when we live in Southern Cal.... PRICELESS :)

To all of my USC fans out there... you guys are good.... and gave us a run for our money... You had Brady and I stressing out over here. Thanks for a great game!

West Ranch baseball

West Ranch baseball... watch out... they are going to be good this year :)

Snowboarding in Mountain High

Snowboarding is my new favorite thing out here... Mountain High is only about an hour and fifteen minutes away!!! I am slowly but surely... wipe out by wipe out, learning how to snowboard like a real snowboarder... and thanks to Wes for putting up with me for the day, he really helped me out and taught me some new things!!!

Saturday February 21, 2009

Playing with our other new toy that we got from Circut City

My students are so talented....

I made sure to put these two posters up right next to each other ;)

So we just finished up chapter 8 in geometry, and the students had to do a proportion project where they take a small picture and make bigger (proportionally) by redrawing it square by square.... My students are AWESOME!!!! They came up with some really cute and amazing drawings!!!!

Placerita Cyn Hiking

We went hiking at Placerita Canyon today.... It was kind of depressing to see all of the trees burnt.... but at the same time it was cool to see all of the regrowth and greenery coming back!!!!

Griffith Observatory and Santa Monica

Mom and me at the beach.
Our walk to the Pier.

View from the Observatory

Griffith Park Observatory

Aunt Joyce, myself, and mom

The famous Hollywood sign!

Today Brady and I went to Griffith Observatory, the Grove, Santa Monica, and into UCLA to get Diddy Riece cookies with my mom and my aunt. It was a very long day, but nice for a change for pace... It was gorgeous day.... About 80 degrees with not a cloud in the sky... Santa Monica beach was PACKED... we were going to go to Venice beach but there was no where to park.

La Brea Tar Pits

Look closely, one of the people that specializes in fossils is Dr. J. A. Holman... who's alma mater is MSU!!!

Took a picture with Brady next to it to give you a good idea of the size of these things!

The La Brea Tar Pits is one of the world's most famous fossil localities, recognized for having the larges and most diverse assemblage of extinct Ice Age plants and animals in the world. They have fossils from between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago here, during the last Ice Age. The reason there are so many fossils is because animals would go into the tar pits thinking it was water, but underneath the thin layer of water was tar, and the animals would then get stuck... Overall a very cool museum... FYI teachers get in free if they bring some sort of proof that they are a teacher.

Weekend in Chicago

The final score of the MSU at Northwestern bball game.... I have accomplished goal number 31. Brady and Brian (One of Wes's REALLY good friends from Indiana).

Me and Jessica (Brian's wife). We had only met Brian and Jessica once.... that was for Wes's wedding, but I had kept in contact with Jessica on a monthly basis. So when I told them that we were coming into the Chicago area and that we should go out with them after the game... they invited us to just stay at their place!!!! Number 11!!!

At the Northwestern game... playing around with our camera... playing with the zoom.... considering we were in row QQ on the second tier, the zoom worked pretty well!!!!

Their were probably more Spartan fans in the Welsh-Ryan arena then their were Northwestern fans!!! It was VERY cool.

Lets.... Go..... State......

Durrell Summers... one of my favorite MSU players... we can thank him for the win against Texas a few weeks ago!
Me and Brady in Welsh-Ryan Arena... The Arena was MUCH smaller than the Breslin Center... I compared it to a big high school arena!

CHICAGO!!!!

Ice Skating.... We were in a time crunch, so we didn't get a chance too... Plus I don't think Brady would have gone with me even if I pleaded

Cool looking reflection thingy in Millenium Park, just above where the ice skating rink was.

More Chicago sky rises

As for the goals.......

Number 31 and Part 1 of Number 11 AND as you can see constantly working on Number

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