Our trip to Salt Lake City!!!!

Brady and I decided it might be fun to go to an away game for the Spartans. The furthest they came out West was Salt Lake City to play BYU. We decided, what the heck, lets make a weekend of it. So we flew out on Saturday morning and got to Utah around 11:30 or so, got lunch, chatted with some very friendly BYU fans and then headed off to the game. For those of you that don't know, BYU was ranked 20th, and MSU ranked 10th, so we were up for a good game. I still have no idea why a game like that was not televised, luckily we went because the game was an edge of your seat type game. Anyway, the game started off with a prayer.... yes I said it, a prayer.... both Brady and I were taken a back for a second, we thought we were going to a basketball game, not a church service. Anyway, after the prayer, the game was underway, and I am telling you, the way MSU was playing it wouldn't have surprised me if we finished the game with 35 points... In the first ten minutes we had scored 8 points.... Definately wasn't planning on making a trip for this type of game. But in the second half it was a completely different team and we won by seven!!!! Yeah!!!! Meanwhile, we happened to be sitting next to four Spartan Alumns, and after the game met a couple of them out at the bar (bar... i know what your thinking.... they have those in Utah.... well they do, it only took us about 45 minutes to find one!!!!) We spent a good 2 1/2 hours talking to these '95 grads who now live in Denver, we talked about everything from football and basketball to the craziest thing that ever happened to us at MSU. It was so much fun!!!!!! We then flew back on Sunday. It was a great trip and I can not wait to do another one just like it!

Here are the bball boys in Pre-game warm up.
MSU bball on the big screen.
Announcing the starting line up.... and now #41..... Marquise Graaaaayyyy
The opening tip off.
When MSU tied up the game in the second half we thought this was a better time than any other time to take a picture, because who knows how this might end up.

The Final Score: 61-68. MSU wins, after suffering a 14 point defecit in the first half!
YEAH!!!! GO STATE!!!! We were some proud Spartan Alumns!!!!
Go STATE!
How georgious was it there? The snow capped mountains in the background! It was awesome. Here is the capitol building.
More Mountains! Absolutely georgious.

Mitzi lightened it...

so check this pic out now... after Mitzi lightened it.... you tell me what you think?!?!

The Whaley House

Here is me trying to get a glimpse of some ghosts at the Whaley House:


This is the pic where I think there is a little somethin somethin in the right hand side

While down in San Diego we went to Old Town and walked around, we decided to check out the Whaley House which happens to be one of the most active haunted houses around. While we were there we were standing in a bedroom when the curtains to the closet started to sway.... there was no breeze, no one was walking by.... it just started to move.... I don't know.... then this guy tripped.... but he said he felt a shove.... and this lady claimed that she felt a scratching on her face... most of this happened in the room where I think their may be some sort of figure in the picture, but who knows..... It was a cool experience either way... There were tons of ghosts chasers there while we were there with all sorts of cool camera equipment, who knows if there were really ghosts their that night, but the thought of it is a little creepy.

Update

I finally caught up with my 365 blog... check it out...

Halloween at Disneyland

Brady and I went to Disneyland and California Adventure for Halloween courtesy of Mitzi's tickets she bought us for Christmas last year! We had a blast, it was a perfect day to go... perfect temperature and not busy at all. We about walked on to every ride! We had so much fun! Happy Halloween!It's Halloween Time! The decorations were absolutely amazing!
Brady acting like he is afraid of the Hollywood Tower Hotel
Me being afraid of the big Grasshopper from A Bugs Life
After California Adventure we headed across the way to Disneyland and got a nice picture of us with the Mickey Pumpkin.

Hopefully we can go back one more time before our passes expire, I really want to see what Disney does when they decorate it for Christmas because they did a really neat job with it for Halloween! I hope everyone had a wonderful Halloween!

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.