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Lovely Saturday For Some Football.

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I just need to blog one post about the game…and then I’m done. Non-Michigan fans feel free to skip this one, but you’ll miss some cute pics and vids of the girls. (Of course that is the real reason I need to post about today!)

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Today was the first Saturday of the football season that we were able to concentrate on football (REAL football) and not anxiously watch scores from the sidelines of a soccer field. And it wasn’t one Saturday too soon either since today was the day of THE game. The one team that Michigan fans H-A-T-E came into the Big House looking for an eighth straight win against us. The last time we beat Ohio State, Emma was a mere 7 months old. Yes, it was a long time coming for Michigan fans.

In preparation for the game, Daddy taught the girls the “Oh How I HATE Ohio State” song and the first time he said it both of the girls looked at me wide-eyed and said, “Aww! Mama! Daddy said the ‘H’ word!”  Daddy reassured them that he would allow the use of the “H” word whenever referring to Ohio State. He then proceeded to tell them that if they ever thought about going to Ohio State, he would disown them. Emma laughed but later anxiously said to me, “Mama? Daddy wasn’t kidding when he said we can’t go to Ohio State, was he?”

Um…no, Em. He most certainly was not.

Addie might be a few years away from college, but she understood it all perfectly and practiced her spelling in the courtyard as well.

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We moved our usual Bagel Saturday date with our friend Michigan Mike from the bagel shop to our house for today.

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If you didn’t have the proper attire on…you were not allowed in the house. We realized after the first dreadful drive that the Elf was not in the appropriate colors, so we quickly fixed that.

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Even poor Tiger, who is a true California cat through and through, (she has never stepped foot, er…paw, into the state of Michigan!) was our stand-by wolverine mascot for the day. Roar…

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And Daddy got his workout “popcorning” Addie after every Michigan score. Em got a joint-popcorn from Mama and Daddy since she is way too big to throw around any more. Of course, I was popcorning…so no real photos of that, but she was not left out, don’t worry!

It was an incredibly fun way to spend the day and almost made up for not being in Ann Arbor to see it all in person. Well done, Blue.

A year of promise and hope

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Although our Michigan football team didn’t hold up any promises or offer even a glimmer of hope that we could win today, I am still certain that 2007 is going to be a great year!

We had the full Pasadena/Rose Bowl New Year’s experience today. Last night at midnight we wandered downtown and gaped at all of the crazy, poor people camping out on the street for the parade this morning. I mean, sleeping bags in the gutter, on the asphalt – staking out their spot for a glimpse of the floats and bands. It was insane. I have been to a lot of New Year’s Eve celebrations in a lot of big cities, and have never experienced anything like that. I forgot my camera, so I don’t have any pictures, but trust me it was c-r-a-z-y!

After a stop off at a pub for a New Year’s drink and the walk back, it was pretty close to 2am by the time we went to bed. Three short hours later, I woke up thinking that my neighbors were being extremely rude and loud (like we can talk, I’m sure they hate us and our screaming girlies!) and realized it was the PA system for the parade. The parade runs right down our street, literally through our front yard. So not only was it a little inconvenient to have the street closed for portions of yesterday and today, but apparently the parade provides a free “wake-up call” as well. At any rate, we can’t complain, they did give us free bleacher tickets for the parade, and it was worth every little hassle!

The parade was amazing, the girls were so very excited about it all. Emma loved the bands, Addie loved the horses, and they both loved the floats. They were pretty stunning! So that was a great way to start off the year. I’ll try to post pictures tomorrow, between the parade and game today, Jamie and I took 525 pictures between the two of us. So, yeah, I’ll have to do a little paring down and editing of some of them!

The game, well, that did not have as good of results – but it was fun just to get to go to a Rose Bowl game, and hopefully when/if we make it next year we’ll have better luck.

So the first day of January 2007 was pretty good, all-in-all.

Two little sidenotes, for any of you following the J. and his job interviewing that we haven’t talked to in the past week, J. is officially leaving Playboy in a few weeks and will be taking the job of…wait for it…it’s a good one…

CTO of Digital Media for the NFL.

Yes, the NFL, as in National Football League. How crazy is that?? It is an amazing opportunity for him, and I am certain he is going to rise up to the challenge and be absolutely great at the job. He is the first CTO of the NFL, ever! I am so very proud of him, I can’t even describe it. Like I said though, I am certain that this is going to be a great year.

The other sidenote has to do with the new year, in a round about way, I guess. For those of our friends and family who are used to getting a Emma/Addie calendar for Christmas – they are on their way. It hasn’t been lost in the mail. It is just stuck on my hard drive, unable to print and collate themselves, apparently. So, I am working on them feverishly and hopefully I’ll have a stack of them to bring to Michigan when we leave (ack!) this Friday. Can that be right, in 4 short days??

Already the year is flying by…I hope you all had a very safe and fun first day of January. Wishing you lots of love and happiness in the New Year.