February Update

Beauregard and Savannah taking a nap together on the couch.

Mandie and Colin at the Spartan Marching Band banquet.

We have been keeping pretty busy with school and work these days. Colin is enjoying his classes this semester, and I absolutely love my job at the MSU libraries! The dogs love to play in the snow everyday, and enjoy going to the dog park in East Lansing when we are able to go.

This past weekend was especially busy and fun. Thursday night, to a concert for a salsa band that our friend plays percussion in, and it was super fun to watch all of the people who now how to dance salsa dancing to really good music. On Friday night, we attended the Huddle Banquet for the MSU Spartan Marching Band. It was to get dressed up and see all of our marching band friends that we haven't really gotten to see since the bowl game in San Antonio. To see a complete album of photos we took at the event, click here. Then, on Saturday, we went early in the morning to the Capital Area Humane Society to volunteer orientation so that we can go walk dogs and help out when we have time. We are really excited to finally getted plugged into the volunteer scence of our community. The facility there is very nice and all of the workers are very friendly, so hopefully we can go back really soon.

After that, we went to our first MSU hockey game with some friends of ours that are also from Texas and involved in the College of Music. MSU beat Ferris State, and it was really exciting to watch all of the fights that the players got into on the ice. All in all, we had a good weekend of spending time with friends and actually engaging in community activities, which is a nice change of pace from running from one band event to the next. Today, we are having a winter storm, and received about a foot and half of snow overnight, and it is still coming down hard all day today. Wish us luck as we try to avoid getting snowed in!