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