First day of school

What little cheese balls! What a cold rainy morning to start the first day of school. We are starting earlier this year and so they catch the bus around 7:40 a.m.


Mason is in 6th grade and his teacher is Ms. Moore. He said he is excited to do some math and hang out with his friends. I am in denial that he is in 6th grade and next year he will start middle school.


Taylor is in the joined 4th and 5th grade (really 4th grade for him). His teacher is Mrs. Jenkins, which I love and I know he will do a fantastic job like always. His teachers always tell me that Taylor is perfect, I couldn't agree more! Mason and Taylor are also excited to be in the robotics club again and do a competition in November.


Alyssa is in 1st grade and her teacher is Mrs. Walker. I am going to miss Lysa this year as I am used to her always being with me. I already did it, I was driving and I turned to talk to her and she wasn't there, my heart sank a little as I know she is growing up.

First lost tooth!

Not only did Alyssa lose her first tooth, she lost two teeth while on a boat! Her teeth have been loose for about 2 months and they just wouldn't fall out.


We kept trying to yank her teeth out, but just couldn't get them to budge. Katie, on the other hand is an expert teeth puller. She yanked one right out after the other, seriously I have no idea how she did it. (If you look close at Katie's arm, you can see the bruise that I gave her, I feel so bad! I guess next time she won't talk back! He he)


The next morning, bright and early, Alyssa looked under her pillow and found four dollars and a big box of Whoppers.

Just a side note, we decided to let Mason try some contacts before the school year to see how he did with them and he liked them a lot so he is in contacts full-time now. What a handsome little boy and we can see his beautiful eyes and long eyelashes not hidden by his glasses. I was very impressed on how fast he caught on how to put them in, I swear it took me forever to do that.

MEET MS. MEATLOAF

Lance took the kids fishing up by Challis and this is what they brought home with them, a new pet snake. This is pet #2 in our house, besides Speedy the turtle, which is still living. This has also been a good pet to sneak to church to show our Sunbeam class that we teach.


They decided to name it Ms. Meatloaf after Milo, Lance's friend, I guess that is what his nickname is.


The kids told me that the snake's eyes were blue, so that meant he was going to shed. I didn't really believe them, but within the next couple of days it really did shed. I asked how they knew that and they said, "Gosh Mom don't you read!" Ha, that made me laugh. What smart kids!

Bear Lake 2010

We love our yearly Bear Lake trip, especially this year since we brought a trailer with us. We had a couple of really bad storms during the evening and I am sure if we would have had a tent it would have blown away! During one of the storms we actually took down the Moffat's tent just to make sure it didn't blow away. Overall, it was a nice vacation of relaxing, tubing (trying not to get killed by Doug too bad), water skiing, running on the beach, playing volleyball, campfires, and just laughing!


We got there on Monday, a day or two before everybody else and just relaxed on the beach. Lance and I got up every morning and took turns running on the beach. I ran barefoot, which was a nice change up and I loved all the different sandcastles that I got to see. I should have brought a camera for that.


The boys burying their sister. We had sand everywhere. I will be cleaning it out of the Tahoe I am sure for the next few months.


Katie, Nita, and I decided to go out to the trampoline to play, but when we got in the water we all looked at each other and noticed that our hair was standing straight up. We took this as a sign and decided that lightning was coming and that it probably wasn't a good idea to go into the water right then.


Ahhh, relaxation! Reading a book and getting a tan. I read all the books I brought with me so I had to run to the store to get some more and Adam even picked me up some nice fitness magazines :)


Lance and Tris


So cute! We love these guys!


Lysa and Daddy


Lysa and Mommy


The trampoline, yellow thing, in the background was so fun to play on. A group of Wyoming ladies that we see there every year brought this and they let us play on it. It reminded me of that show Wipeout, trying to see who could run across the straight yellow part without falling off. Taylor almost got all the way there. We played like little kids and loved it! This is the same trampoline that when we had that really bad storm that flew over the Tahoe, anchor and all, when Lance was driving back up to camp. That was a crazy storm, Lance was the hero of the beach, chasing down all the tubes.


They all loved Adam riding the tube with them, mainly because he would try to throw them off. He was nicer with the little kids.


We love the tube! Ethan even went on and was really excited.


We love Tanner. Katie wasn't feeling well and so we helped play with Tanner and he was so cute because he kept coming up to Taylor with his hands up wanting to be held, so that is what Taylor did. It was so adorable I had to take a picture.


The girls and their shell collections.

We can't wait to go again next year!

Cannon Family Pictures

We haven't had a chance to get Cannon Family pictures for a long time and since Greg and Mi-Won were here we decided to finally take some. The only people missing are Vicki and her husband.


The whole Cannon Family


Grandma, Grandpa and the grandkids


Lance, Brent, Joel, Greg and Karen


Top row: Lance, Brent, Joel, and Greg
Botton row: Taylor, Mason, and Ty


Triska, Mi-Won, and Holly


Top row: Triska, Mi-Won, Karen, and Holly
Bottom row: Alyssa, Leah, Sedonna, and Paige


Joel, Lance, and Greg


Greg and Mi-Won


Ty, Leah, Paige, and Sedonna


Lance, Triska, Alyssa, Taylor, and Mason


Mace, Taylor and Alyssa

What a great family the Cannon's are!! We love you guys.

A trip to Buhl to see Greg and Mi-Won

Lance's brother Greg has been living in South Korea for the past many years (I can't remember how long, just a long time!) Anyways, he got married about 5 years ago and we had never met his wife, Mi-Won, until this past weekend. We have nothing but good things to say about her! She speaks English so well and she is very easy to get along with and joke with. The kids loved her too. Greg and her brought the kids some money and some Korean bookmarks, which they thought were fantastic! They also brought each family some Korean coasters, which are very beautiful, too pretty to put cups on.


We were all so glad to see Greg and finally Mi-Won!


This is what Grandma looks like with all of us there! She always has activities for the kids and keeps them very entertained. What a good grandma!


This is what Lance and Joel do most of their time together, watch hunting or talk about the upcoming hunt with their maps out!


We all went swimming at the Buhl pool, since Greg said their pool close by was always crowded and had no diving board. Mi-Won was scared to go off the diving board, but Greg caught her and helped her swim to the side.


Taylor, Ty, and Mason.


Leah, Alyssa, and Sedonna


Lance and I relaxing by the pool watching Joel and all of his tricks on the diving board.

Blue Angels

We went over by the soccer fields on the West side of town to watch the Blue Angels and they were amazing, loud but amazing!






We were all smoked out when they flew over our heads. I love this picture because it looks like the kid in the yellow shirt looks like he is getting ready to run, which is what I felt like at one point and Lance laughed at me!