Rez'n it

This past weekend I traveled home to the rez. I spent the weekend with my dad. Our original plan was to plant corn, but the weather was extremely windy! It was very dusty out too. So instead, we visited at my grandma's for a bit and then we went to Gallup, NM. I can't remember the last time I had been to Gallup! We ate at the best mexican food restaurant ever- Genaros. It was so tasty! I also made my dad take me to the new casino. It was just cute because my dad gave me a tour of the whole place. The casino looks pretty nice and it was crazy packed. Anyways, I was sad to go back to Phoenix on sunday. The weekend wasn't long enough, but hopefully I will make it home again soon. My dad planted a few rows of corn, so now I need to go back and help him work on the field some more. I'm hoping that we'll have a good crop because I need to fill my corn pollen pouch back up.

Little Brother

My little brother was on leave for a week and a half. I didn't get to spend much time with him because he was home with my dad then my older brother kidnapped him and took him to vegas. Anywho, I ended up ditching a little bit of work this week to spend some quality time with him. On monday after I skipped out of work early, I picked up my brother and we stopped by a Circle K to buy some drinks. We also could not resist the awesome deal they were having on PEEPS. 25 cents for a box of peeps is quite a deal! So we bought 5 dollars worth. My mom knows I hate peeps so she always buys me a box whenever they're in the store. So we have this huge box of peeps for my mom. I'm debating mailing them to her or dropping by her house unannounced and leaving them on the doorstep. Haha. Anyways, John and I get the biggest kick out it and the cashier at Circle K must have thought we were nuts. We went swimming in my pool and played volleyball! It was a tad freezing but we got used to it. We also watched Monsters VS Aliens. Seth Rogan is awesome! It was a cute movie. We wrapped up the evening by cooking mutton, green chili and frybread! YUM. It's literally been months, possibly years since I've had a meal like that! So awesome. The next day I skipped out on work some more to have breakfast with John and then to drop him off at the airport. We ate at Cracker Barrell. I tried to be healthy so I ordered the Veggie Platter meal. John ordered this breakfast that comes on like 3 plates and is basically every breakfast dish imaginable offered as one meal. It was kinda gross watching him devour all that food. HAHA. Even though our visit was short, we had a blast and I'm so happy that he got to spend LOTS of quality time with our dad. I'm kinda sad though, because John is getting deployed and might not be back until next year. Yikes!

Pat's Run 2009

Huge banner of Tillman's jersey

Posing for pics before the race
I love the shirts!

On saturday I participated in Pat's Run. I have been wanting to do this race for a few years now but something has always come up during the race day. I was really excited to do it this year! I think Pat Tillman's story is amazing, how many people would give up a million dollar paying job to join the military to serve their country? On friday I had attending a training about providing better services for people in the military and their families. The training was so informative and intense. There were people who shared their traumatic stories about being in military or having a spouse or son in the military BUT they each said that if they knew what they knew now they would still serve their country regardless of the aftermath of being a veteran. At one point I think everyone in the training cried. I felt like I was on an episode of Oprah. So after the training I was even more inspired to do the race! Haha. My goal was to finish the 4.2 mile race in 35 minutes...............aaaaand I did it in 33 minutes and 43 seconds! woo-woo! I was excited about my time. Yay. I'm hoping to start doing this race every year!

Steroids

Lately, I've been working on speed intervals. I'll run 3 minutes at a regular pace than speed it up and sprint for one minute and I'll do that through the whole run. Well it must be working because I had the treadmill set to turbo and I just kept going at a pace that is typically SUPER fast for me but I was handling it fine. I ended up running 3.66 miles in 28 minutes. I was trying to figure out if the treadmill was reading the distance in kilometers. Haha. I was in such disbelief that I went back to the gym the next day and made sure to run on a different treadmill but at the same speed just to make sure that it wasn't a fluke. It was not! I ran 3 miles in 22 minutes. I haven't ran that fast since I was in high school cross country. Haha. So I'm doing a 4.2 mile race this weekend and my goal is to get it done in 35 minutes. We'll see how it goes!

This Is Why I Love My Job!

On Wednesday at work, I attended an event hosted by another department. The event was targeted for Moms and Tots, so they ordered one of those big bouncer things that kids LOVE. The first few of hours of the event were really slow so we *ahem* tested out the bouncer. We learned that if you fall down and two other people are already bouncing, you can't get back up.