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GIRL! Tom and I saw our baby today! We took all the kids and we were all anxious to see. Zack was about to cry when the radiologist said the baby was a girl. That made me sad. The other girls were excited but kept saying, "Are you sure?", "We thought it was going to be a boy?", "What about Joshua?"...

I am very happy that my baby is healthy and the ultrasound was super cute! But I am a little confused thinking this may be my last chance at a baby and it is not Joshua. I dreamt about Joshua years ago and always knew I was supposed to have another baby, a boy. So now what I am supposed to do? There is no way Tom will agree to another baby AND I am not sure I could do this pregnancy thing again. I guess I just have to trust that things will just work out.

I am not disappointed to have another girl, I love my cute, sweet, beautiful girls! And I can't wait to hold and kiss my new baby girl! How can I do another 19 weeks? *sigh*

OCTOBERFEST

I love the fall and Halloween! It's always full of fun activities. Instead of doing 5 different posts I lumped them all together. Yay for October!

We went to the Red Barn in Santaquin to get our pumpkins, it was a perfect day.

Sydney and Savannah

little Summer

Sydney smiling into the sun

Summer

Savannah

Zack giving me evil eye because I made him put on a jacket, the nerve of me

but he cheered up

boo









the hay ride



the costumes- Zack, Savannah, Sydney, Summer

I couldn't figure out what this picture was...Savannah took it of the bath after washing the black dye out of her hair


CORNBELLY'S

so much fun on the bounce pillow



THIS is my favorite picture! Tom was having more fun than the kids!













we got lost in the maze, even WITH the clues!

the corn pit





Sydney totally buried


Caramel Apples- with Hannah and Landon




SUGAR COOKIES- with Becky and James

oh I soooo caught Sam licking the knife! :)

Sydney what face are you making????





Tom made ALL the cookies AND the frosting...he's getting good with the kitchen aid!



Summer's cookies

Zack's cookies

Becky

I love Sam's cookie full of candy corn






Decorating outside








CARVING PUMPKINS



messy



Savannah, Sydney, Zack, and Summer's pumpkins




The ladies who work with me in my classroom-

Halloween night-we all had fun going around our neighborhood. I was trying to get some exercise but I was eating candy the whole time so it didn't count, right?


And lastly a cute video of my two youngest kiddos dancing to a 'They Might Be Giants' song
video

Crafts, friends, camping, buddy walk, mountains

Sept. 09- While Grandma and Bapa were here for Zack's baptism, the kids did crafts with them, they ALWAYS love it!







Sydney had a late night with her best friends Alayna and Christina

Zack went to Father's and son's with Tom. I think he loves this more than anything else. The ONLY time I heard him say he didn't want a brother was because he wanted to do "Father's and Sons" with daddy alone!






at the end of September we went to the Utah County Down Syndrome Foundation "Buddy Walk" It was so much fun the kids didn't want to leave.

the love of Star Wars runs strong in our family

cool face painting





collecting leaves in the mountains...breathtaking!


Backing up with more Summertime

Right when school started my dad's sisters came to visit! It was nice to see my family from Canada and England!

my cousin Wendy brought candy for all the kids, Summer with her Kinder Egg

Zack finally has some boys to play with

Sydney and Atlie

Savannah

Dad and his sisters, Wendy and Ruth

Anna

Cousin Andrew is a GREAT cook!

Auntie Ruth and Isaac

Michelle and Jon

Ray and Wendy

Kate and Andrew

Ken, Dad, Tim

Mom and Uncle Ted

Sally and Wendy

girls just hanging out

Zack and the boys

Zack's Baptism 9/5/09

My Zack is old enough to be baptized? He is such a sweet boy and so sensitive. It was a really special day! We are SO proud of Zack!

Zack gets his first set of scriptures from Grandma and Bapa



Julie, Bapa, Susan

Zack and Tom
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the whole group

I love my family!

Joey, Mary, Landon, Hannah, Macie, Tim, Angie, Zack, Atlie

Grandma and Florence



Mary, Grandma, Tim, Hannah, Joey

Tom and Julie

Bapa, Zack, Grandma



Dave and Grandma

James and Becky

we went to Olive Garden after




Sydney's Birthday Part Two

I'm trying to get all caught up this weekend...

Sydney's ice-cream cake! Yum!

Sydney has been asking for guitar lessons FOREVER, so now Tom is teaching her

treasure box from Grandma and Bapa



Sydney is such a cute little "nut"

family b-day date to Mimi's Cafe, I was SO sick I couldn't eat anything

Summer loves her daddy

Zack and Vanna

Syd's dessert


The End

The end of an era
No more pets in the Cannon Home

Right before school started, Tom finally reached the end of his limit...I was pregnant and cleaning the kitty litter, the puppy was confined to the laundry room or else he would use our carpet as his potty... among other things. So it was such a sad day! I put all the pets on KSL classifieds and got offers within a few hours. There was lots of tears from me, Savannah, and Sydney. I am a true "pet person", I love them. Summer and Zack were fine. Tom said we would never do this again because of how upset the girls were. Two nice families came to our house to pick up Buddy and Gir. Seeing the kids say goodbye was heart wrenching! We drove up to South Jordan to give Nemo away and Sydney held him and cried the whole way there! It made me cry too, no sob!

Trying to make up for it a little bit we let Savannah and Sydney spend some $, that we got for the pets, at Toys-R-Us. Then we took all the kids out to eat and to see a movie. Savannah and Sydney still cried a lot. It was SERIOUSLY so sad! Where is my consolation prize you may be wondering...well I get a baby so I really can't complain!

Now the house feels empty, my heart aches for them, I miss my puppy and cats, but I have to admit it is CLEANER, EASIER, and CHEAPER to not have pets.

Here is cute Nemo, we had him for 3 years!!!!

my adorable puppy, "Buddy" we had him for 6 months

and Gir, we had him for 6 months too



Next the kids started school...

Summer with some friends and her kindergarten teacher

my baby

she's just adorable



Savannah, Zackary, and Sydney on their first day, "Uncle" Derek was visiting and they wanted him in the picture too, they adore him!

this is Sydney with her consolation prize for giving up Nemo...a 2 ft ugly doll!



I'm not even going to say how much this cost because it is obscene!


It's always sad for me to end or start a new era in my life. I'm so sentimental..."mental" being the key part. And so it goes

LAGOON! 8/14

We went to Lagoon with Tom's work right before I went back to work. We weren't going to tell the kids about the baby until I was further on but they needed to know why I wasn't going on any rides...so we told them and it was really cute how they all responded. Zack said, "I know it's a boy!" All the girls cheered! From then on there was no way to keep it to our family, the kids told their teachers at church and school...


I did get to go on the Ferris wheel, but other than that I just took pictures all day.

Sydney and Summer

Tom and Savannah

Zack

Summer and Me

the girls are nervous of heights...

Tom tries to talk Savannah into going on the Rocket, she cried and then came out of line

Sydney was very brave to go on with Tom

she still doesn't know what she's getting into

on the way down she finally realizes...Tom said he was even scared! Brave Sydney!

Zack and Syd on a water slide

Savannah

Tom and Summer

the log ride



rattlesnake rapids

trying to get out of the waterfall







bumper cars


















Great way to end the summer!

More Summer Fun

We were busy this summer! It went too fast for me.

The Classic Family Fun Center was incredible! The kids never wanted to leave.

Summer

Sydney

Zack

Sydney

they all loved the slides

Summer went down with Savannah


The Herriman Beach provided much entertainment

Summer

Zack

Savannah and her best friend Briana

Sydney and her best friend Sydney

Ariana








The Markhams, we always love to spend time with them. We were lucky to see Jeff and his family and my blogging buddy Corinne!

it was the night of Zack's birthday and we gave him the choice to go there or have his party and well...







Sydney loves Ella

the boys

Summer and Kate

Me and Corinne


Jerry and Autumn came to Utah!

Autumn brought crafts for the kids



we had a BBQ at my house...don't be jealous of my weeds!

Dad, Jon, Landon, Tim

Hannah, mom, Eowyn

cute cousins

the whole group





Zack got a bike from nana and pops!!!!

Autumn's family invited us to a party at their house

Sydney

Macie and Summer

Savannah

Summer

Autumn's mom went down the slide, what a trooper!

Mikey, Zack, Saylor

Angie, Tim, Autumn, Eowyn

Let the posting begin!

Wow, this has got to be a new record for me...2 posts in 2 months. Pathetic! I have good excuses, you could call me the QUEEN of excuses. For example,

a new school year starting,
being pregnant (sick and tired),
having a SEVERE sinus infection for 6 weeks,
3 kids on 3 different soccer teams (I swear I will NOT do this next year!)

just to name a few, but I am done with excuses

so here I go, trying to catch up from the summertime


We went on a fun outing to Temple Square and church history museum. Tom had each kid pick a postcard from the museum gift shop and try to find it in the museum. Then we let them use some allowance money to get something small from the gift shop. What was totally adorable was Savannah used her money to buy me a CTR necklace that I said was cute! She surprised me with it later, she is such a thoughtful child!

Zack with Captain Moroni

the place where Grandma and Bapa got engaged

a tiny hurt baby bird, that made us all sad



the rod of iron at the museum








We ♥ Sydney



Sydney is 10! My beautiful brown eyed, olive skinned girl is ten! We all love her spirit (wild and sweet).

All about "Sydney Apple Bubble"


FAVORITES;
food- tuna
dessert- strawberry shortcake
restaurant- Mimi's Cafe
movie- Ponyo
tv show- Flapjack
activity- write in my journal and draw and spend time with my family
color- blue
sport- swimming
subject- math
toy- everything I have
animal- elephant

What don't you like? fighting and violence in movies (as long as it's not at home!)
Where do you want to go to college? BYU (good answer)
What do you want to be when you grow up? a teacher
Where do you want to get married? The Draper Temple
Do you want to have kids? Yeah, two. Lily and Miley
What are you good at? Art


We love you Sydney! We are so lucky to have you in our family! Thanks for you good example and fun personality! Thanks for making us laugh! Happy Birthday sweet girl!

Zack is EIGHT!

My baby boy is eight! He is looking so grown up to me! He loves sharks right now so we did his poster and cake with sharks. He was so excited!

Zack's Favorites;
food- waffles and pancakes
movie- Transformers
tv show- flapjack
toy- bionicles, lego sets, sharks
activity- buiding things
color- orange
place- home
game- wii sports
subject- art
candy- lolipops

What do you want to be when you grow up?
"I want to be a guy who records sharks under water in a cage."
"A dad."


Zack and his poster

Zack and all the loot

He loved his cake! He called it the death cake!

quilt from grandma!

He absolutely loves it!

dragons

Syd likes all the baby ones




video

Cannon Reunion 2009

June 29-July 6

New Mexico was the gathering place for a fun reunion. I think I have 600 pictures so I made a few collages, click on the image to see the pictures better. :) I seriously have to TRY to restrain myself from posting TONS of pictures...and I may still post them later.

silly grandkids

Joani and Mike

Tom, Sally, Zack, Savannah, Summer, Sydney

Carson, Caleb, Heidi, Maia, Max, Reed

Sam, Becky, James, Mo

Matt, Ian, Jason, Terri



olympics, smores

carnival, parade, pinata,

crafts, games



(So, clicking on the image doesn't make them big enough for me so I will have to post the tons of pictures like I want to...)

Risky, fun, or both- in the Mountains

June 27- We went to one of our favorite spots in the canyon and had french pancakes. Nature, family, and fun, what more can I ask for?

three cute kids (Savannah was in New Mexico)

hi Summer baby

ugh...I really don't like to include pictures of me, it wrecks the dream image I have of myself

who let these kids play near a raging river? My mom will have a heart attack if she sees this...and it's only recently that we've heard on the news about rivers carrying away children, so this is fine right? (I'm being sarcastic!)

my cute Sydney

"Thomas! Stop letting her eat the batter!"

my sweet Zack

argh! it's got raw eggs in it!



I love all these baby faces



Summer took this, not bad



we brought Buddy and he got burrs all in his hair, poor puppy, I had to cut them out!

"Mom, I got all wet!"

I wonder why...

this makes my stomach turn thinking how close they are to the white water



Zack digging holes

Summer walked Buddy all around

dang, she is too cute!

We decided to check out a cool spot off the Alpine Loop, no trails, real roughing it, it was like a fairy tale place, we all loved it but again, it made me nervous, and I was wearing slippery flip flops and had to jump over small rivers and walk across wet logs...not so much fun for me!



Tom tries to convince Summer to jump

Zack is not sure






YW Camp June 9-12

It is hard for me not to post 50 pictures from camp so I only chose 30 and did a collage. It was SO much fun to be at camp again after many, many years. I love these young girls, they make me feel young again! And even though it rained 95% of the time, it was freezing, and our kitchen blew away in a mini hurricane, the girls were so positive and GREAT campers! Sharing a tent with 5 of the most FUN ladies was too fun, my stomach hurt from all the laughing. I absolutely LOVE camp!

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