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Seven for Sundays

 

1.  We went to Disneyland!  Breslin's second time at a Disney Park, first time at Disneyland.  Same as the first time, the tea cups were his FAVORITE!  We got to the park at about 9 AM, and left a 7 PM!  It was a full day of fun!

 2.  Mitzi got some new banners for Valentine's Day pictures and she needed a model to help her with some samples.  So here is our little heart breaker taking some Valentine's Day pictures.

3.  Oh boy has it has been a busy and stressful week for MSU's basketball team.  Currently ranked no. 5 and undefeated in the B1G.  But they had two tall tasks ahead of them this week.  A home game against no. 3 ranked OSU, which we led by 17 at one point, only to have OSU come back and tie it and send it to OT.  Thankfully we came up with the win.  Then we had Minnesota at home, which shouldn't have been difficult, but we were without Adreianne Payne.  This time, we were down for most of the game, but came back to be up by 6, only to have Minnesota tie it and send it to OT.  MSU, came through in OT--but again, another stressful game.  They never make it easy do they?  However, meaning of the picture... In Izzo we trust!

4.  Last week of relaxation before we head back to the grind tomorrow.

5.  Booked mine and Breslin's spring break trip to Florida this week.  If you guys know me at all, you must know that as one break ends, I am already planning on the next vacation.  

6.  Still riding the high off of the Rose Bowl win-- ordered a whole lotta Rose Bowl gear which should be coming in any day now!!!!!  Still amazed at the type of season we had, considering how MSU played the first three games of the season.

7.  Oh, Breslin... my train wreck of a sleeper.  Ever since we got back from Michigan he has been a disaster at night.  I am really hoping once we get back on schedule next week, his routine will fall back into place...  My back is sore from sleeping on the floor next to his bed these last couple of nights.  I am contemplating changing his toddler bed to his full size bed to see if that will help at all.  I am willing to listen to any and all suggestions for a toddler with bedtime issues!

Seven for Sundays (Monday)

 1.  Well let's see... what major thing has happened in the last seven days?!?!  Oh I don't know, MSU going to the Rose Bowl for the first time in 26 years and WINNING!  The last time MSU went to the Rose Bowl I was 5!  Of course I didn't go, and of course I barely remember it at all.  We had always said if MSU made it again, we would go.... and boy did we go!!!!  With an additional 60,000+ Spartan fans!

Beside ourselves!  There may have been a few tears shed!

 2.  Now this was actually last Saturday, so I cheated a little bit... going one more day back...  But this was Breslin's first MSU basketball game.  He had gone to Midnight Madness when he was about 5 months old, but this was his first REAL MSU game at the Breslin Center!  Pretty big deal, considering this is the arena he is named after!

 3.  We left Michigan earlier this year than in years past to make it back to California in time for the Rose Bowl.  This is one of our last pictures together from the Holiday Break.  We all got variations of the "Spartan Up" Rose Bowl shirt, and decided to really quick put it on for the picture.

 4.  So many Spartan friends came out for the game.  Above is the Williams... this is the family we do our annual New Years with.  I think in the last 30 or so years we have only missed one New Years.... and even though we didn't celebrate New Years Eve with them this year, we got to celebrate an MSU Rose Bowl Victory and New Year's Day with them!

 5.  These were a few of the people that crashed at our house over these past few days (minus PJ).  It was a full house and an absolute blast!  I wish they had all stayed longer (especially Rachel, I feel like she was here for 24 hours and that was it)!

 

 6.  As we took our out of town guests down to LA, we ran into a Laker known as Swaggy P AKA Nick Young, who has been killing it on the court as of late.  And we of course had to visit the Magic Johnson statue, the same-ish statue that is in front of the Breslin Center.

7.  It was a fun filled packed week, and I am sad to see it end.  However, I am grateful that my school has one more week off before school starts back up, so I can actually, what do you call it?!?! Relax!

Game Day!!! January 1-- Rose Bowl

Rachel, me, and Lindsay setting up the tailgate

Brady and I

Blake, Brady, and I

Some former MSU gymnasts-- Christi, Petey, Lauren, me, and LT

What's a tailgate with no beer pong?!?!  Thanks Dos for bringing yours!

Petey, me and Lindsay

Karen and me

The Williams.. we still got to celebrate New Years with them, just in a different kind of way

We won!

MSU is Rose Bowl champs

Well, what can I say!  MSU won the Rose Bowl!  It was amazing.  The amount of Spartan friends that I saw out here was awesome.  The tailgating was great, the beer was fun, but the game was PERFECT!

Seven for Sundays

 1.  Happy Thanksgiving!!!!  So, this lady above here is my sister in law... and oh goodness thanks for her!  Brez had a slight breakdown during Thanksgiving pictures... and for whatever reason I was super hormonal (and no I am not pregnant!) and I had a slight breakdown....  All I wanted was to have happy cute family pictures.... well if you will notice down below, you wouldn't be able to tell there was any kind of break down anywhere!  Now of course, Mitzi is the fabulous photographer who takes the pictures, comes up with the colors and deals with all of our crap!!! hahaha, but I also want to thank Casey for acting like a crazy fool to get Brez to have that huge smile on his face!  I also want to thank Kris for reminding me how much her children... or maybe just one in particular hated taking pictures until this year!  So anyway... I just want you all to realize how much work goes into this one itty bitty beautiful family picture!  Thank you Mitzi, Kris, and Casey for all your help :)

2.  I hosted Thanksgiving on Friday ALL BY MYSELF this year!  I am slightly proud of this fact.  Brady had baseball in the morning, so it was just me and Brez.  We made the ham, the turkey, homemade mashed potatoes, homemade gravy, homemade sweet potatoes, corn, corn bread, rolls, and then of course all of the desserts!  Did I mention everything was homemade and I did it all by myself... I feel like hobby homemaker.

3.  Brady was one of those people that went shopping on Thursday night....  don't hate us...  He had spent enough family time with us, me and Brez were passed out on the couch...  So he got some good stuff and good deals for Brez's Christmas.

4.  We got tickets to the B1G Championship game this upcoming Saturday... we fly out Friday night ... get in to Indy at 11 am... Fly back out of Indy at 7 am.... do the math... yup... 20 hours... But is it all worth it?  Hell yeah!!!  I am just hoping that next week I am telling all of you guys about how great it was to be there when............

5.  MSU basketball and MSU football are both currently ranked in the top ten!  Wow does this feel weird.

6.  Ohio State's lack of classiness during their rivalry game against U of M yesterday had me ALMOST rooting for Michigan... let's be mature and flick off an entire stadium because YOU got ejected for fighting.  I wonder how #79 feels now... not getting to play in his last rivalry game against Michigan... You keep it classy Ohio State.

7.  My high school I teach for, Valencia, made it to their football playoff finals by beating Saugus on Friday.  I wish I could go to their game this weekend, but as previously mentioned.... I'll be heading to another game :)

I leave you with this!!! GO GREEN

Seven for Sundays (Monday)

1.  Potty... That is the word that we use the most in this household over the last few days.  We are knee deep in potty training.  It's not as hard as I thought it would be, but yes, parenting can bring you down to a whole new level you never thought possible.  Let's take for instance our trip to the McDonald's playplace (which is our Sunday morning hang out).  We go for a little oatmeal and a good hour of running around in the playplace.  I wasn't sure I wanted to go this Sunday, seeing as Breslin was in his "big boy underwear," but Brady said that Brez wanted to go, so against my first instinct we went... and that is how I ended up asking the woman at the counter for the first time ever in my life, "Ummm, we need a clean up on the first step of the playplace, my son had an accident."  Mortified.  Yup, I was mortified.  Oh well, what can you do, after attempting to clean it up with the hand sanitizer but go ahead and tell someone that your child not only peed his pants, but peed all over the first step of the playplace.  On a positive note... one day later, Breslin had no accidents at home or at Mary's!  Baby steps... baby steps.

2.  Catching Fire.  I went with two of my other friends to see Catching Fire on opening night.  I can't remember a) the last time I have been to an opening night in the theaters or b) if I ever have.  The movie was awesome!  I will for sure see it again.  I feel like I need to read all of the books over again during Christmas break.

3.  B1G Championship and Indy here we come!  MSU beat Northwestern to solidify its spot in the B1G championship game.  Two years ago, Brady and I decided to be "good parents" and not go to the game because we couldn't leave Breslin, because he was just starting to sleep really good..... little did we know... he never did start to sleep really good, hahahaha, we are still working on it.  So anyways, with the help of Mitzi and Karen, Breslin will be well taken care of, while me and Brady head out to Indy for 20 hours in hopes of kicking Ohio State's booty and getting a trip to the Rose Bowl.

4.  MSU's basketball team is ranked #1 (enough said).  However, I am more concerned about being ranked #1 in April then now, however I will take it.

5.  Dyed my hair brunette.  It was time for a change.

6.  We took our Christmas card pictures at the beach this year.  I will give you just a sneak peek.

7.  Well I am about to start reading the Divergent series.  I need to take a relax of teaching once winter break hits, between common core and AP Stats I am BURNT out...  Can't wait to dive head first into these books.  Any other book suggestions are welcome!

Seven on Sundays (or this week Monday)!

1.  Short week this week.  I took Monday off to spend an extra day in Michigan.  Breslin flew back with me and was a trooper.  This little man is probably a better traveler than most adults I know!  The best feeling in the world at the end of a flight is fellow passengers telling you how wonderful your child was on the flight!  And in the 12 hours of travel that day not one fit, one tear, or one scream!

2.  Still living off the high of beating Michigan the weekend prior!  MSU had a bye weekend this weekend, so we are still celebrating :)

3.  Michigan State basketball is underway!  The first basketball game of the season was this past Friday.  And MSU won handedly.  We are now getting excited for the big match up this week, Pre Season #1 (UK) against Pre Season #2 (MSU) on Tuesday!

4.  Breslin's newest favorite play thing is the car.  Oh my goodness, this one causes mommy a lot of stress.  Brady let Breslin sit in the front seat once (with the car off of course and the garage door closed).  And he is turning the steering wheel, turning on and off the lights, turning the clickers, and saying "mommy, daddy we're off the the airport."  Super cute, but highly stressful for me.  I know there is no possible way the car can turn on and Breslin's off, but if there is, I don't want it to happen to us!  My biggest fear is the fingers, he is opening and shutting the doors (so we keep a watchful eye and stay close, but boy is it stressful).  Now, when it is time to get out of the car, get ready for tantrum city.... Oh lord, does it seem like the end of the world when we take him out.  But now we have come up with the perfect Christmas gift for him--a toy motorized car... and I am pretty sure Brady already has the model picked out!

5.  This weekend was project clean up the house.  It felt a little like Spring Cleaning, except the fact that we are in the month of November.  The month of October was a super busy one for us, so things like keeping the house clean was not on our list of priorities!  I must admit the house looks much better!

6.  Christina booked her flight out here for Thanksgiving :)  Enough said.

7.  Yesterday I went to church and reception with the Ikonte's.  This was the family of Chibuzo, my student who had a cardiac arrest and was saved by three of our students at Valencia.  A few of us got invited to a service in thanking God for Chibuzo's life being saved and then heading over to their house for a celebration.  Something like this happens in your world and it truly makes you believe in miracles.  I am so thankful that Chibuzo is okay and that we were able to spend that day celebrating, versus any alternative.

Seven on Sundays (well this week it is on Wednesday)

 1.  Well this was an eventful week.  Halloween was on Thursday and myself, Karen, and Michelle dressed up as Minions at school.  Then I did a quick costume change after school into our marathon costumes.

We dressed up as marathon runners this year for Halloween

Happy Halloween :)

Nathan accompanied Breslin door to door Trick or Treating

2.  We flew to Michigan on Friday because we had a "Buy Back Day," but no teaching.  So we took the day off so we could fly to Michigan and spend more than 36 hours in town.,... or so we thought.  Then this happened: Shooting at LAX.  Our flight was supposed to leave at 1:30... But when we got down to LAX around 11:30 the airport was shut down.  No one was let in, no one was allowed out.  So we found the nearest Playplace and spent 2 hours there.  Finally around 1:30 I told Brady that we should just try to head over and find a parking spot and figure out how to get to LAX because now our flight was supposed to depart at 4:15.  We drove around for a good hour (and Brez man fell asleep) until we found a spot to park.  We then just sat in the parking lot, because still nothing was allowed in.  Finally at around 3:30 we started walking to the airport with hundreds of other people.  At 4:00 they finally opened the doors.  We got through security and sprinted to our flight, just to find out that they needed a new crew to work our flight.  Finally at 6:30 our 757 (which normally seats some around 250 people) was flying to Detroit with 30 people in tow.  We got to Detroit safe and sound... 5 hours late, our luggage didn't quite make it in time, but that's okay.  Through the whole ordeal Delta was absolutely wonderful.  They certainly get an A in customer service, and solidify the fact that I am frequent flyer of the airline!

3.  Tailgating, Sparty, and football!  So we made it back for the football game!  Breslin got to meet Rachel and Rachel along with Sparty!  (He absolutely loved Sparty by the way)!  And then met Jeff and Lisa King for the first time.  Our Breslin man is a huge trooper going on these crazy Spartan adventures with us.

 4.  And the Spartans did it!  Michigan State beat Michigan 29-6, in one of the most lopsided victories for Michigan State versus Michigan in most recent memory!  It was rainy, wet, and cold-- and absolutely perfect for a day filled with tailgating and football!

 5.  On Sunday we just spent the day traveling around campus and hooking up with people.

Hanging out by the Spartan statue

Playing with Teagan at Jenison Fieldhouse

 6.  Got to hang out with some great people over the weekend.  Met up with Anna and Teagan, Mel, Jeff and Lisa, Kathie, Rachel and Rachel, and Aunt Joyce.  These trips are so much fun, but they are always too quick.  I am looking forward to the next time we go back and hanging out for awhile!

Some of my favorite MSU peeps

The Williams and company

Rachel and Breslin

7.  And the whirlwind of October is over.  The first weekend in October we headed off to Michigan for the MSU/IU Homecoming game.  The following weekend I had my Jason Aldean and Jake Owen concert.  Then I had my 1 hour and 55 minute half marathon the next weekend.  And we capped off the busy month of October (first few days of November) in Michigan.  Phew... it was fun, but it will be nice to relax a little bit.

Seven on Sundays

 1.  Breslin is an old pro at Gymboree now.  He is such a stud, we do think it is time that he moves up to the next class.  Next week will be his last week in level 5 :(  He is growing up so quickly!

 

2.  Breslin went to his first ever Halloween party at Gymboree.  Breslin dressed up as a marathon runner!  Now, I might be biased, but it was one of the more creative outfits out there.  He got to jump, dance, and play as well as sing, read and do crafts.  He had so much fun!

 

3.  Well  I had my half marathon!  And finally on my fourth try I got under 2 hours!  The first three, something always came up in my training where I lost focus, or skipped some of my long runs.  (say like a newborn child... then a toddler, etc.)  But this time around I really tried to stay focused and get all the runs in that I needed.  The two hours became a MUST this time around.  Before this, I had been at 2:04, 2:03, 2:08....  But this time I needed to get it. The official time was one hour 55 minutes and 11 seconds!  Halleluja.  Next year... maybe I go for 1:45.... hahaha.  We shall see.

Last years medal/ this years medal!

Registration... Oh goodness, I can't believe I am doing another one!

Morning of!  Did I mention that it was a halloween half marathon!  I dressed up as a bumble bee!!!!

My second to last training run before the half marathon.

 

4.  Halloween is rapidly approaching... so we did pumpkin carving at Aunties this year!

 

5.  My Spartans are 6-1 after a great solid win against Illinois.  We are now ranked in all of the polls.  We have our big game this weekend against Michigan.  We will be flying out there on Friday and spending the weekend.  Let's get it MSU.  

6.  Breslin has a new favorite ritual; going over to the Carey's house on Saturday for football.  This was the second weekend in a row that he went over there and he has an absolute blast.  He absolutely loves it over there.  We watched the morning games, then head to In n Out for lunch (while desperately trying to keep Breslin awake).  After that he conks out in the car and takes a good 2 1/2 hour nap (I am sure the Carey's take some sort of nap as well, hahaha.  Breslin sure does know how to suck all of the energy out of everyone).

7.  We renewed our passes for Magic Mountain today.  We stood in line for 2 hours, but it is well worth it.  for 210 bucks we got annual passes for the three of us for Magic Mountain, Hurricane Harbor, and it includes parking.  We used our passes quite a bit this past year, so it should be money and time well spent.