Camera Pictures from our long break away from Provo

Alona's first day of Kindergarten in Ms. Erickson's class in Layton. She was a little bit scared at first, but warmed up quickly. She made many friends there and didn't want to leave. And frankly neither did I, all except for one big factor, Paul. He was supposed to have four months left, we went through two months with my sister but Paul no longer had two more months after the two that we had just done. He still has four more months. I just didn't think that I could do six months away from him, for personal reasons that you wouldn't think of, believe me. Alona had two other girls in the primary class there that were her same age, and there were three boys in that same class. Here in Provo, there is not a single child that is Alona's age. She is mixed in with two seven year old girls and a five year old boy.
Alona's first soccer game. She did awesome. She has gotten better each game with being involved and trying to go after the ball. My grandpa, Ruth and Val came to see her first game and Kacen demonstrated to my grandpa how he could suck on the cup and hold it in place. He thought that he was very funny and kept laughing every time that it would fall off. The uniforms in Roy are super cute, We have fun and there are still two games left!


Alona's birthday we went to Golden Corral with family, being that we had three birthdays in the family and my grandparent's forty ninth anniversary, and then we went to Layton Park and decorated a pavilion, fed the ducks while we waited for everyone to come and then opened presents and had cake and ice cream. Hannah Montana cake that Alona picked out. She was interested in Hannah Montana, so later that weekend we rented the video that she has out and the girls liked her music. Alona got a nice package of Polly pockets, a bike horn and a Hannah Montana microphone, oh and a book, "The Book of Mormon says".
The day before Alona's birthday we went to build a bear workshop for her present from Paul and I. She picked a monkey, he has a monkey sound and hello kitty pajamas and a sleeping beauty day time out fit with a crown and clear "glass" slippers with pink trim. After that we went out to SBarro's for pizza and went back to aunt Crystal's house and played at Vae View Park until bed time. Grandpa Bagley came on Alona's birthday and drew animals for her class, they had to guess what Grandpa was drawing before he finished. The first person to guess what he was drawing got to keep the picture. The kids were all so very excited, it was fun to watch them run up to their parents as they were being picked up and tell them all about it.