Murvul Day 1

Spring Break 2016 Tennessee style!
Derek had school so it was just me who went back East.
The end point was Maryville, TN however if you want to sound like you're from the town, you have to pronounce the name like Murvul.. Kinda like 'Merca + Maryville..

Wednesday March 30
aka Airport day, because of the time change I spent the bulk of the day in airports.
First stop/layover was in Dallas for 3 hours.  I walked around for about an hour and then found a yoga studio where I spent another hour.

When I landed in Atlanta.. it was NOT what I was expecting. There were trees EVERYWHERE! I was expecting a bigger city sprawled all over the place but it wasn't so.
 We made a pit stop at Oakland Cemetery for only 10 minutes (wish we had more time!) but it's definitely a place you could spend a few hours exploring.  We had temple plans we wanted to keep to so we only had a short time there.

 The Capital drive by..

 Everywhere you go there are signs telling you to lock your car so your not a victim, but we were lucky and a cop parked behind us to watch our car.

 Olympic Torch drive by.. we really wanted to go to the Olympic park but temple plans were more important. 

It was an adventure trying to find the Atlanta Temple. It reminded me of a Jordan River version from the 70's. Inside it reminded me of the Ogden Temple. We met a lot of amazingly cute people!  Photos aren't that best, still trying to figure out the new camera in the twilight-clouded skies...

It sits atop a steep grass covered hill..

Afterwards we went to our hotel room and changed to go grab some dinner.  We chose subway since it was just down the street.  The worker was hilarious! He was having a lot of fun at his job & hooked up us with basically ALL the pickles.  This dude is a super star.
We stayed up later than what we probably should have but it was worth it :)

March non-birthday

The Month of March..
(Non Birthday related)

Discovered Ellie is the best dog walker helper.. she gets her own leash to hold.

My dad is TJ's best friend..

Upside to a 2-day AmeriCorps conference.. got to meet this awesome chick!
Check it out:
The 444 Project

Real Salt Lake vs. Seattle Sounders!

Dave..

Cookie contraband..

Ellie playing Vet...

She said Ragnar needed her "stuffy" while at the doctors to feel better.

Read-a-thon at Clegg kids' school.
Jaxson asked me to come read with him.
I brought doughnuts.

Goldenwest 5k.
I walked with Ellie & my dad

 I did run back n forth at a few places to take running selfies with people and to take photos of the Clegg's and some of my distance runners.

Finished the last 1/4 mile of the run with Ellie on my shoulders..

she had gotten out to walk at one point, then tripped over her shadow, refused to keep walking, refused to get in the stroller, so several forms of carrying occurred. 

Track season started.. along with the process of BHS getting a new track

Meet n Greet with Chris Wingert..
but first we watched Yura Movsisyan play ping-pong.
The Clegg kids did get a photo and auto-graph too.
He called Madi a princess :)

 The boys gathered courage and asked their soccer idols for an autograph and photo.
Look at that smile on Jordan.
Juan Martinez aka El Burrito and Javier Damian Morales

 Chris Wingert..
the gist:
hard leg day = super rough leg cramp while sitting down for this photo = falling out of the chair and on my back like a turtle. Super embarrassing. 
The mascot fallowed me around for a while which I think helped Ellie not be scared of him and gave him a high-5.
Cleggs got autographs and a photo.  Chris called Madi beautiful :)

Hiking Indian trail with Andrea + Frieda 

 Ragnar trying to pull out a root because Frieda was trying to

Cute duck chillin' in the reflection pond at the Ogden Temple. 

How Ragnar felt about all the snow we were getting the last week of March...

Books read:
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
Odd Hours (#4) by Dean Koontz
Odd Apocalypse (#5)
The Road to Oz (#5) by L. Frank Baum
The Emerald City of Oz (#6)
Two Ravens and One Crow (#4.5) by Kevin Hearne
Tricked (#4)
The Vampire's Assistant (#2) by Darren Shan
Reawakened (#1) by Colleen Houck
Destined (#9) by P.C. Cast

#31

Pre-pare yourself for oodles of photos...

Laser Tag.
My parents also played- including my mom! The Clegg kids couldn't come even though it was Jaxson who had the idea to play laser tag again for my birthday. 
Tyler & Kris

Tara R. Jessica S. Andrea M.

Day Trip to Vernal

The Petroglyphs at McConkie Ranch in Dry Fork Canyon
It was pretty cool. I wouldn't mind going back again.

 

   

Fantasy Canyon
I think we only saw 1/4 of the area, we were running out of daylight so we definitely have to go back again!

Time lapse Derek filmed, although it didn't capture the amazing oranges!

Birthday Service Project:
Volunteered at the AFSP Campus Walk at Utah State.
A former student of mine took his life 2 weeks ago and my friend lost her son almost 2 years ago.
Honor Bead Colors:
Teal: A friend or Family member of someone who lost/or struggles
Purple: Loss of a relative or friend (they ran out of purple so I gave mine to someone who needed it more than me).

 Many touching stories and amazing tribute songs.

 This is a sculpture on Utah State campus, I thought that it was fitting for what the cause was for.

 View from campus atop Old Main.

 I made these stairs up to Old Main apart of my walk, it seemed more fitting to represent the struggle of those who are left behind.