A californian spartan

Friday, August 06, 2010

Five for Fridays

Five things that happened this week:
1. Flew back from Cabo
2. Went to Las Vegas
3. Mom flew out to visit
4. Got i Phones
5. Got to do one last minute scrapbooking before the school year with Mitzi and mom

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Well, what have we done in the past three years???

WOW!!!! Three years! I am so grateful to have such a wonderful husband, who is as outgoing, passionate, wacky, and loving as I am. We have done so much in these past three years, and look forward to many more trips and experiences to come!!!! Here is some of the things we have done in the past three years!!!!!

Otis's wedding up in Santa Cruz. So instead of just going up for the wedding, we decided to make a weekend of it and went to Muir Woods, San Francisco, and Hearst Castle.

Muir Woods!

Then we have our annual big WOW vacation. This year, brought us back to Kauai (where we spent our honeymoon three years earlier). Kauai is our favorite vacation spot, and it would be a dream of ours to some day own or rent a vacation home out there!

And we have made many great friends throughout our time here, Lauren and Sean have to be our best. This year, they FINALLY came out to visit us. Now we are just trying to talk them to moving out here... after visiting, the realize it is not a hard sell!

We have both learned to snowboard together.... (Brady's not quite as into it as I am, but he is managing!!!) Here we are up at Mammoth this past winter.

And many many sporting events. This past February was Brady's 30th birthday. So I planned a surprise birthday for Brady which involved a LA Kings hockey game!

Final Four #2. This past spring, MSU made it yet again to a Final Four. I am so lucky to have a husband who is as fanatical as I am into MSU sports.... We may not have quite had the money for this trip, but we made it work anyway!

Whale watching!!!!! Brady's goal is to one day see a Blue Whale... It was his mom's hope to see one, and since she never did, Brady and I are on a mission to find one!

One of our, now, annual trips down to Chicago over Christmas Break to watch MSU play at Northwestern for basketball!!!! Again.... we are fanatics!

We have now been to at least two to three home MSU football games each year that we have been married... (and yes, I know, we live in California). But there is nothing like going on campus and cheering for your team, live and in person. Along with going into our fourth year of marriage, this is going on to be our fourth year as MSU football season ticket holders :)

We have gone to numerous weddings together...

Our one big "WOW" trip in 2009, was the all inclusive Excellence Resort Trip in Cancun!

It was AWESOME!!!!!

Final four trip #1 for us! This was the first year we flew out for MSU's final four appearance. It was well worth our money, seeing as MSU made it to the National Championship game.... didn't quite win it.... but came oh so close.

Brad and Brittany's wedding in New Hampshire in the summer of 2008.

Our big vacation in Summer of 2008 was a Western Caribbean cruise. This was the first cruise I had been on, and was amazing! Above we are swimming with stingrays! That is ocean water...not pool water!

A Marlin's baseball game down in Miami.

Cozumel, still from our Caribbean cuise.

Many a winter's spent in Michigan for Christmas vacation. This one happened to me December of 2007, our first Christmas as a married couple!

Brady and I at the Notre Dame MSU game..... where it all started a couple years back!!!!

And here we are, at the MSU opener, up in Berkely. MSU played at Cal, so Brady and I said... well, they are in the state of California, lets go! A five hour drive later, we were there!

And our first "WOW" vacation as a married couple: Kauai. Our honeymoon!

Love doing trips to down Memory Lane!!! Can't wait to see whats in store next!

Happy Anniversary!

Well, it does seem like just yesterday that we were married. These three years have flown by!!! Just a few pictures from way back then..... and the Green and White wedding extravaganza!!!

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Magic Mountain

So, all the Mandels, and all the Burrill's went to Magic Mountain today. Mitzi and each of her children and Rob has an annual pass and today was bring a friend for free day!!!! So they decided to take Kris, Casey and the kids, as well as me and Brady. We had an absolute blast with all of them. Brady and I definately feel like we are getting older..... we can't do the rides as well as we used too.... It was definately an exhausting but fun day with all!

Mitzi, Kris, Brady, Kari, and I in line for the Batman ride, the last ride of the evening... Megan and Corey rode it as well, they just were all pictured out.