Christmas Eve

Jamie and Emma were laying around sick all day so we had to cancel our plans with our friends but we managed to pull together the traditional Cannon nativity reenactment. Jamie did the narrating between sniffles and the kids each took on double roles.
 

Looks like Joseph feels like most new dads feel.

"and they were sore afraid"

Oh look, the shepherd's brought a gift too

Can you spot the star?

Thanksgiving 2012 with Cannons

Let's see, two days after Christmas, sounds like a good day for a Thanksgiving post.

My Mom and Dad flew in to spend Thanksgiving with their Texas family, Jesse and his gang came down from Dallas, and Nate's family has been living in Cedar Park. The Liddiards (my SIL's parents) invited us to have Thanksgiving dinner with them but Jesse had sick people so they didn't even make the dinner :o(. But they came the next day and we ahd a fun weekend. We played at the park and in our favorite trees while the mommas did some Christmas shopping,

we went to the zoo, 

we took some family pics. and ate ice cream,

Nana made pj pants for all the grandkids,

we ate ar Rudy's for Jamie and Pop's birthday and went back to the house for cake and ice cream for all the November birthdays (Angie, Maisy, Jamie, and Pop and I ate for Hunter and Lindy).

So grateful for family! Thanks Mom and Dad!

The Faith of a Child

I love my sweet Weston. When I asked him what he was grateful for today he said, "that David could get better." David is his cousin who's had several surgeries and procedures in the last few months with another big one coming. I was touched that he stated it as something he was grateful for not a blessing he's asking for. It's the same in his prayers. After expressing gratitude for the blessings he has, instead of asking for blessings Weston will continue saying he's grateful for things that he's asking for like, "we're grateful that David could get better." At first I was tempted to teach him how to "properly" ask for blessings but stopped myself as I thought of the faith this child has in prayers, that he knows his Father in Heaven will answer his prayers and he is grateful to him for it.

The Avengers

We have some home teachers that always tell Jamie he looks like Hawkeye from the Avengers so when we started talking about Halloween costumes I knew exactly what Jamie should be. I had a leather jacket so I though maybe I should be Black Widow and then it became a family theme. It was fun and a hit at the ward trunk-or-treat!

Great quotes this week

We were having fajitas this week and had guacamole. Emma said, "We should call it Barackamole."
So anyone having an election party, don't forget the Barackamole and Romney Noodle Soup.

One of Andrew's teammates came back to the dugout crying and Andrew told him, "There's no crying in baseball." (you've seen A League of Their Own right? Well, Jamie has).

One of my preschoolers was looking at our children's  body book at a drawing of a baby in the womb and said, "there's the baby in the mommy's tummy and there's his power cord."

If you can't decide what to be for Halloween, be everything.
 

You better watch out, you better not cry

I don't think I ever noticed before but Satan and Santa look awfully similar in spelling. I guess that's why Weston got them mixed up tonight in our scripture reading. (3Nephi 18:18) "Behold, verily verily, I say unto you, ye must watch and pray always lest ye enter into temptation; for Santa desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat."