1st day of kindergarten

Wednesday was Kiara's first day of kindergarten. She was very excited to go and I think had fun. She said on Wednesday that it was boring sitting at her desk, but on Thursday it wasn't boring. We'll see how Friday goes. She is buying her lunch from the cafeteria today. She was excited about that too.

Aidan was very sad that he couldn't go to kindergarten too. He has had to bring his backpack everyday when we walk Kiara to school and then again when we go to get her. He also wanted his picture taken too for the first day of school, although I couldn't get them to look at me. The baby was way more interesting.

I know it has been a long time since I have updated this. Nothing really exciting has happened, at least not anything I've taken pictures of : )

We recently went to Utah to visit my sister Elizabeth, her husband Andrew and daughter, Avery and my brother Ren and his wife Amber. It was a long trip, but we had lots and lots of fun.

On Sunday we went to Bridal Veils Falls which was about 15 minutes from Elizabeth's house. We went on a short walk and got to see this waterfall. There used to be a restaurant at the top of the falls that you got to by ski lift, but it was closed. That would have been a fun place to eat dinner at.

This is also at the waterfall. All the kids were just dying to climb in the water!

On Monday we went school shopping for Kiara and then went to BYU. We got to see Andrew's art studio and some of the pieces he was working on. We also went to the Monte L. Bean Museum which is a museum at BYU that has all sorts of taxidermy animals. This is Aidan and a skunk.

This one is a baby cougar going after a porcupine. They had all sorts of animals including the head and neck of a giraffe, a grizzly bear, lions, tigers, and the heads of rhinos, hippos and more! The kids and their daddy had lots of fun in there. This is Aidan and Avery with their fireman's hats at the Pioneer Day celebration in Provo on Tuesday, the 24th.

On Wednesday we went to Salt Lake City and visited the temple and Temple Square.

Shane took some great pictures of the temple and Shane and I got to go to a session while Elizabeth and Andrew were nice enough to be in charge of all the kids for us.

After we did a session we walked around Temple Square, went to the visitor's center and then went to the conference center, right across the street from the temple. The conference center was huge. Our tour guide said it was over a million square feet plus the 300,000 square foot parking garage underneath. It holds a lot of people which is good for conference.

Another neat thing about the conference center was the roof. The roof doesn't look like a roof at all. It is like a little park up there. This waterfall starts at a fountain on the roof and flows all over the roof and then into a waterfall down the side of the conference center.

Here is our picture that proves Rowan was at the temple too : ) There was so much water at Temple Square the kids were very excited. This pretty fountain is in Temple Square.

All of us on the roof of the conference center. You can see the temple in the background.

All in all it was a fun trip. We liked hanging out with Elizabeth, Andrew and Ren and Amber. It was definitely worth the long road trip!!