Easter & Burton is One!

 So far, April has been a great success and I am so thrilled about the good weather and coming joy of summertime. 

One of Billy's clients asked him to build a huge wall with a fireplace. So weird and cool and trendy! And Billy is just doing it. The  cool part is that Billy welded the fireplace himself. He just has recently decided to do a lot more metalwork and has been doing so good. 

It was Easter!! Yay!! I love Easter and treat it as other people treat Christmas becuase I love it way more than christmas so we had a big celebration! Both the boys loved the egg hunt and candy and joyous morning feel of Easter. 

We spent Conference weekend at Mom's and M&D and it was so great and such an invigorating conference! We loved it.

And then we celebrated Burton's birthday!!! Hooray! 

Truman opened all of Burton's presents haha

Burton has been such a joy and I cannot believe that he is already one. I felt like when Truman turned one it was after we'd had him around for a long time and even though it feels like Burton has always been around, it doesn't feel like he's been here for a long time. Weird. Anyway, what a joy! He is so happy, always smiling, always pointing and loves his people SO much! hooray! 

Race post below!

Moab 50k!!! and other goodies

The end of March was a joyous! It included...

a morning at the Payson temple with Emery while CJ attended a sealing. It was so beautiful and fun!

A good matching Sunday with my boys

A good many visits to MeeMaws, where Truman has started sleeping on Meemaw's big bed. He is like unto a 2x4 when he wakes up haha!

And ultimately, the Behind the Rocks 50k in Moab!! It was such a grand and joyous adventure and I had some of my most favorite people there (and some of my most favorite people not there, which was sad. But it was ok to be away from the boys and thank you M&D!)

Billy, Kim & I drove down there and it was such a great drive. Such delightful company and wonderful conversation. 

We slept under the stars the night before, right by the start line. The 50 milers left an hour before us and I was SO jealous and wished wished wished I was them. 

The race was SO FUN! Much of it was over cool slick rock and interesting canyons. And my old boss was there and so I ran with him for a little bit too. That was cool!

AND there was an out and back and so Billy and I got to see each other! And it was when I was running with my boss so he got to take a picture of us! It was the best moment of the whole thing for sure and motivated us both for many miles afterwards. 

I do not think that I ran that race as fast as I could in my life but under the training as it was we all did good and in fact Billy and Kim (who ran the 30k) ROCKED it!! They both ran an hour or more faster than their estimated times! I was so thrilled and so pumped. And so sore and tired haha

Oh, we had such fun! Kim and I had not done a race together since 2011! And we had not camped together since before we got married so this was a long past due adventure. And truthfully, my mission was accomplished because now my people want to do more and longer trail races. Booya!

Besides that, we have just been doing our thing: 

Laying in the cart

Dying eggs! I love Easter!

Hiking/running pure joy

Billy got to go dirt biking! I was so glad and Truman got to go for a little ride as well. And look like a little alien or something haha

Woohoo!