Have to do some Christmas bragging on my wife

[MetEdDawg]

I come from a family very heavily grounded in Auburn. It's what I grew up with and I was a die hard Auburn fan until I enrolled in MSU in 2006. I have loved every second of my time associated with MSU and wouldn't change it for the world. I joined the Bulldog Club back in 2010 and even through getting my Masters and my wife going to vet school, we've been able to do a little to give back to MSU.

Well when the initial brick buying came around for the new stadium expansion, I wanted in. Being a first generation Bulldog, I thought this was just a great way to get myself engrained forever in MSU. Have some physical representation of my love for MSU. After calculating finances and trying to get it worked out, I just couldn't make the numbers add up to buy one. Just living paycheck to paycheck and couldn't make it work as a teacher with a wife still in school.

Well today for Christmas, I opened up a picture frame of my Certificate of Appreciation from the Davis Wade Stadium Commemorative Brick Program with the brick that my wife and my very heavily Auburn based family helped pitch in and buy. I got the information about the brick buying program in the mail a while back and just left it on the table and never thought of it again after I figured out we couldn't afford it. She found the paper, contacted all my family, got everything set up, got the brick ordered, and now we are brick #881 on the Davis Wade Stadium North End Zone Expansion.

I know it's just one person's story, but it's just insane how much I love MSU and I just felt like I had to tell this. It's overwhelming how much MSU means to me and it's just a really cool feeling that at age 25, I get the honor of having my name on the side of a stadium of a charter member of the greatest football conference in the land.

Hail State everyone and I hope you guys have a blessed and Merry Christmas!!