Happy New Year!

We are still on Christmas break over here. My kids haven't hardly left the house all week. I think it's time for us to get back to our regular routines of school and story time, etc. On Monday I had to take Ryan to get his shots. I will do a separate Ryan post in a bit. On Tuesday I got my house ready to host the second annual Cannon Rockin' New Year's Eve party. I was making treats and decorating for my adult party and felt bad for my kids, so very last minute I came up with some kid party celebration things. I blew up 3 balloons with a time on it and each of the kids got to pop a balloon. There was either a treat or game to play in each balloon. At 8:00 they rang in the New Year and went to bed. They were little sleeping troopers because we were LOUD and not one of them made a peep. A few couples from the ward came over and we played games and ate food until 2:30 in the morning. It was a blast! New Years day was pretty low key and boring. I was too busy planning the New Years party to try to even think about making a big dinner for New Years. I decided our family will not have a big dinner on New Years day. I would much rather focus my attention on a fun party on New Years Eve for my family and my friends. 

Scott decided to turn the bunk bed he made for Corbin and Gabby into a triple bunk bed. He took the kids to Lowes on Thursday and bought all the wood and cut it up. I was sick Thursday night with a headache. I even threw up. Not fun. Luckily I felt better on Friday. Scott figured out how to stream the internet to our TV (it's this whole big complicated thing). Anyway he did it and he's so excited he can play his video games online now. We even signed up for Netflix and watched the not so new James Bond movie. There were complications and he had to re-boot or something several times. I'm not sure it's going to be quite the Netflix dream I've been dreaming about. I'm glad he can play his games online at least. 

On Saturday some of our friends went to breakfast at Kneaders for my friend Jen's birthday. We talked a long time at Kneaders and then we went to Hobby Lobby afterwards too. We were gone a long time and Scott was home busily building the kids bunk beds and poor Ryan hadn't eaten (he was asleep most of the time) I thought Scott fed him the bottle I left for him but he hadn't. Poor Bubba. He was sure happy when I got home. I spent the rest of the day running errands and cleaning and cooking to get ready for Ryan's baby blessing today. 

We blessed Ryan today and Scott did a good job, although we could hardly hear him as the microphone wasn't working. Good thing Scott's got a loud deep voice. My parents and Scott's parents came into town for it. My siblings in town came with their families. We had a nice lunch afterwards. It was fun visiting with everyone. Scott's parents are staying the night at a hotel tonight. There's been talk of going swimming at the hotel at 6:00 in the morning. Ha! Count me out.

As each hour passed we would pop a balloon and do the activity in the balloon. 

Awesome bed! First night was a success other than Piper falling out in the night (don't worry she's on the bottom). 

Here's some video of some of our activities. The first two videos are of "the mating game." You got a piece of paper with an animal on it and you had to call/act out your animal and find your mate. Funny!