Dressing up

Last night we got to dress up and go to a dinner and lecture for graduate students on campus. It was pretty fun! I definitely ate 3 salads (mine, Thomas', and an extra one a server brought by)! It was so yummy! Here are a few pictures of us all dressed up- well, kind of :) Thomas is wearing his $300 leather coat that he got in high school that was way too big- his dad said he'd grow into it. He went to put it on last night, even though its "huge" and it seemed to fit perfectly.. hmm... someone's dad knew exactly what they were talking about!! haha good job Dad Weber.

Wearing our nice coats, Thomas bought me mine with his bday money one year!

Aw, Thomas is SO happy to be dressed up :)

Also, here are the cute sugar cookies I made for Rachel's baby shower! They taste even better than they look  :) There are still some left....!

The recipe can be found on my recipe blog  for the cookies and the icing :)

Valentines Day

Since Valentines Day was on a Sunday, we went out to lunch on Saturday to El Salvador for some delicious pupusas (thick pita-like pockets filled with beans, cheese, pork, etc. and served with pickled cabbage and tomato juice sauce) and plantanos fritos (fried plantains). See pictures below:

Pupusas

Plantanos fritos

SO stinkin delicious, topped off with sevada (for me- I love sweet!) and horchata for Thomas. I could not find a picture of sevada, but it is the color of pepto (but thinner) and it is a strawberry drink made with milk.

 

Horchata- a rice and milk drink. Yummy!

Basically we love this food. It is very different from Mexican, even their food by the same name is made differently. El Salvador is supposed to have some of most distinctive types of Central American food. It is also very cheap. And soon will be cheaper when I learn how to make it!!!

So on Valentines day, we had Chris and Jill over for dinner (calzones and salad) and had Triple Peanut Butter Pizza Pie for dessert (very aptly named Death by Chris after he took his first bite and felt his arteries clogging). Here is a picture:

 

Death

I will be posting the recipe on my recipe blog right after this if you want to try it :) I'm going to add the "Death" version, as well as maybe some changes I'd try next time to make it not so killer rich.

We played Monopoly Deal (SO fun and SO much better than regular Monopoly.) Chris won both times, so we called it a night!

Love on our 3rd Valentines day together!

ZUMBA

Here is the winner from this year's ZUMBA commercial contest! The husband of a girl I know helped shoot it. Its pretty good- ALMOST does ZUMBA justice but not quite. It is seriously one of the most fun things I have ever done, and I've done some pretty awesome things :) To look forward to working out every day is a blessing that I had not found until ZUMBA! I also put on some of my favorite ZUMBA vids in case you want to check them out :)

Winning Commercial

Pose - Daddy Yankee

Los Campeones de la Salsa (not the choreo I know, but this guy looks cute! haha)

Calabria

2 Step - DJ Unk

Chunky - Madagascar 2 movie (we do toning to this song and I find it quite amusing!)

Most of my favorite songs/choreo are not on youtube, but don't worry, Jen and I are having an all day ZUMBA party on our one year anniversary of ZUMBA on April 16th! We'll record our favorite and share some :)