What Dad Wanted For Christmas

This is what dad really wanted for Christmas! He rents one of these every year, but he never gets one in his stocking on Christmas morning.

Christmas Day

And it came to pass, Christmas finally arrived and there was much rejoicing in the land. Clark received a teakettle that he uses several times a week. Father Cannon received a gas powered scooter. Nicole received an R2D2 talking robut. It was amazing all the awesome goodies that we got! I, personally, got enough reading material that will last me for 4-5 months! I love it! I got Freakanomics, Inconvenient Book, and The 5000 Year Leap.

Rick had a good time

Mandy got a new hat.

Van Mangus came to play games with us on Christmas night. My mom got a bunch of games for Christmas this year so we will have lots of fun after Sunday dinners! This is one of the games called Quelf and my mom and dad had to play leap frog to continue on in the game. Aaron had to sing Kumbaya. Ruston had to do a news report without laughing. A ridiculously fun game!

Christmas Eve

Christmas was super fun this year! It always amazes me how amazingly generous and amazing people are at the holidays! Santa really went above and beyond this year!

I have a ton of pictures on my picasa album. http://picasaweb.google.com/clarkcannon I tried to take the highlights and post them in this big ol' stream of posts.

For some reason, and it doesn't matter how many pictures i see, i think these hats are AWESOME!!!! I LOVE THEM!!!! They get funnier and funnier every year!!!!

I think this is my favorite picture of Bindi and Aaron. She's really a goofy cat.

By the way, all of the incorrect puntuation is for Scott!!!! Take that four exclaimation makrs!!!! ha ha ha ha!!!!

Christmas Eve we hung out at the Pinnocks and this was a highlight for sure! Earlier this year all the aunts and uncles went to Disney World. Everyone got hats and they went into an impromptu Mickey Mouse fan club song. I was a little slow on the draw but I did get the roll call. GREAT!!!

Mandy's Birthday...23!!!! That's CRAZY!!!!!

Carole and Aaron flew in early for Christmas and it was awesome! It was so fun to be able to hang out with them! It always seems like it is one of those strange things, where you have not seen each other in forever, but you pick up right where you left off. Sort of like when you get back from your mission. Ya know?

We all went to lunch for Mandy’s birthday at the olive garden and for the 15th year in a row we decided that we didn’t want to go ice skating for Mandy’s birthday, regardless of her birthday wish.

Mandy decided to take a picture of her nose.

Mandy was excited about her cake! Obviously!

This was a funny picture of me.

Christmas Zoo Lights Festival

Therefore, it appears that I am not very good at posting on my blog; however, I really do have things going on in my life. I guess I am just not very good at writing about them…

First of all, Seamus pronounced SHAY’mus, my band, played at the Hogle Zoo Lights Festival! It was a blast and freezing cold! We had a few people stick around to watch us rock but most of the people were interested in walking around and look at the sponsors lights. It seemed very commercial. Personally, I would rather look at lights on houses and albino alligators on their own, then to look at lights of KOZY 106.5 and albino alligators in the same building. Anyway...

Anybody for Lunch?

Therefore, last week I went to Carl's Jr. with a bunch of my friends and I had the most exquisite meal! I just thought that I would tell you all about it and share the picture of my meal. It is the #16 Meal on the Value Menu. Chicken Bacon Swiss- Medium Size-French Fries. MMMmmmm

P.S. I used the “spell check” feature and it said to begin this blog with the word “Therefore” I usually don’t use such words in my everyday language, but I think I might start. It behooves me to increase my vocabulary.

What I’ve Been Up To?

The End of October

It has become a tradition for my sister, my mother, and me to go to witches tea at the Grand America. We started attending 3-4 years ago. The idea is; you dress up like a witch or a wizard (I dress up like a cat) and you go to the ritzy Grand America Hotel and have tea and strumpets. The deserts are always amazing! Next time I go, I am going to get the hot chocolate though. The peppermint tea that I had was just…alright.
Nicole has a great Prof. McGonagall costume that she wears, but this year she had to work and needed to bail early so I got to wear her hat.

My buddies and I thought that it would be funny to have a Mexican Halloween party. We would all dress up like Mexican super heroes and play Mexican games. All in all, it was a very stereotype-driven party. Some may have found it offensive but they need to lighten up. ;)
We had a piñata. We had some amazing costumes and some lackluster costumes. Irregardless, it was a blast!

November

For Thanksgiving, the whole family went down to San Diego. My sister Carole and Aaron, her husband, live there. They have a beautiful apartment in Mission Valley.
We arrived on Wednesday day night and, of course, went straight to dinner. We had a blast! It was so fun to catch up with Carole and Aaron. It is funny how they change but stay the same. They look the same, and talk the same, but they seem to have grown up a lot in the past year. (This sounds like an outtake from scrubs…)

Thanksgiving was a blast! Aaron got up early to go surfing. My mom got up early to bake the turkey. I slept in a bit. We decided to go get Jamba Juices® and Bagels at about 11 (keep in mind that dinner was scheduled for 2 pm. Ya just can’t eat enough on Thanksgiving, huh? After Jamba Juice© some of us went to the beach and played football, and others went home to finish the dinner. After running around for a bit my Jamba Juice™ decided it wanted to be back on the outside of me again so I laid down on the beach in the sun feeling sick, but loving the sun.
My cousin Lisa lives in Laguna Nigel, about an hour and a half north of Sand Diego. We all gathered around Carole and Aaron’s table on Thursday afternoon and ate way too much. After dinner we sat around, laughed, and told stories. It seemed that there were a few people that sneaked off to take a quick nap…me being one of them. We played secret combinations after everyone was awake.

Friday we went to the wild animal park and got to see all sorts of crazy animals. By the way, Rhinos are bigger then you would ever imagine. I was blown away when I saw them. I mean, the elephants seemed big, but rhinos are just magnificently huge!!! I got my mom and Carole to go on the carousel with me. It was great!
Friday night, we went to Le Fountain Bleu, which is the fancy-dan restaurant in the Westgate Hotel, where Aaron works. They have their weekly seafood soirée, and it was good! It was the second time I have ever tired caviar, and the only time that I thought it tasted good. It was also the first time I had oysters, and I have no idea how anyone considers them aphrodisiacs…YUCKY!!!

Saturday, we went to Catalina Island. It is so beautiful there. It’s kind of weird thought; I was on an island, and I’m’ used to being on islands and having them tropical. It was somewhat chilly. Still gorgeous nonetheless.

Sunday we went to the crown room, and ate some more. I have realized that when the Cannon’s get together that is all we do. We go from restaurant to ice cream shop to activity to restaurant. It is amazing that we are not all super huge!

December…already?
I haven’t done much so far this month. I am looking forward for lots of things that my friends and family have coming up. Scott and Mitzi are expecting there first baby, sometime this month. I think they need to name it Bort Ham- Sandwich Cannon. Matt and Jenny Meese are expecting their first babies; twins! I’m holding out for Mario and Luigi Meese.

My only real plans for the month (other than celebrating Christmas with my family and figuring out what the true meaning of Kwanza is) is to grow out my hair and beard. I’m going to grow out my beard and shave my moustache so I look like Abe Lincoln or Brigham Young. I plan to wear a pea-coat and a beanie and tell everyone I’m a longshoreman that works the dock of the Great Salt Lake. Anyway…

I have a web album of pics from the last month. If you wanna check them out click this link http://picasaweb.google.com/clarkcannon/BloggDecember