Jalapa's

Last night we went to a birthday party for our new little niece that was born on Easter. Her name is Rhianna and she is a beautiful little girl. Her parents are Mike’s brother and his wife, Sarah and Brad. Now, Sarah is from Morocco so we got to be part of the Muslim celebration. The tradition is that one week after the baby is born they sacrifice a lamb, give the new baby a name, and then they have a big party with all kinds of food and everyone wears the traditional Jalapa (I have no clue how to spell that) but it's a really fancy robe. When we got to the party they invited us upstairs to pick out a Jalapa that we got to wear for the evening. Ours aren't as fancy as the traditional ones for parties, but they were still fun to wear. We couldn't help but play around in them, as you can see. Mike pulled his hood over his head and pretended to be the grim reaper. It was so funny!

The Grim Reaper

All we are missing in this pic is Yoda, R2D2, and a light saber!

My Jalapa

This is the food we ate. There is some chicken, a cauliflower and cheese dish, a pea salad, and the traditional lamb with some spaghetti squash looking casserole. And it was really good!

Love/Hate Relationship

Sorry about the lack of posts over the past few months. I have been very occupied with this new love/hate relationship.... Running. I may look happy in the picture but deep down inside I am clenching my teeth. This was taken right before I ran in the Rex Lee 10K run about 2 weeks ago. For those of you who don't know, some of my friends have decided it would be "fun" to run a half marathon. So we are all training on our own and then we are going to meet in Salt Lake on April 19th to run the Salt Lake City half marathon. Running the 10K was part of my training and I'm happy to say I did it! I finished the race and I didn't do half bad. And I must say, I did feel pretty good after I was done running it. Hence the love hate relationship. I really don't like to run and I dread it every time, but when I'm done I feel so good! Plus, I burn a lot of calories doing it and that makes it worth it! (I kind of look like a retard in the picture so don't look at it for too long!)