The Latest Arrivals to the Von Canon Clan!

We would like to welcome Andrew and Oliver Von Canon who arrived Friday, April 24th at 11:50something am! Fred's brother Jon and wife Jenni officially now have their hands full...we can't wait to get out to Missouri and see the newest Von Canons! We thank God that Mommy and Andy and Olie are all doing well...we love you guys!!

Lineman Rodeo

Lots of fun was had by the Von Canon girls with our friends the Wilsons at the Lineman Rodeo last weekend. Jeramy works for Progress Energy and did well in the comptetions with his team!! We enjoyed a beautiful day and free food!!

A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words

I just posted lots of pictures to the shutterfly site!

• Easter and "Palm Sunday" CBS fun
• Maggie's Birthday
• Bath Time with Alex
• Evan's Birthday
• Judah's Birthday
• Fred's Birthday
• Lots of fun with Friends

Check it out...http://www.voncanon.shutterfly.com/

Two distinctly different little girls...right down to the way that they gather eggs! Notice Maggie's "grab every egg in site" method vs. Morgan's "I want the Purple eggs" method! Love them both!!!

Haircut!

"I love my haircut! It looks very nice. I can donate my ponytail to Pantene's hair drive." says Maggie.

The day before, Maggie had decided that her hair was, "too long" and decided to take matters into her own hands. Fortunately, it wasn't really a noticeable amount that she took off, but I still had to stand on principle. Short of banning her permannently from scissors, we discussed that this is not a do-it-yourself project...and that we will always go to have her hair done.

Just Another Manic Monday!

Morgan, Maggie and I had a fun but busy day! We were able to visit with Lesley, Ty and Alex in the morning and then us girls went for a special lunch to The Olde English Tea Room in Wake Forest! Quite a nice day for a spot of tea! We were looking for any good ideas for planning Maggie's Princess Tea Party...mostly we found some sweet times together!
Later, that night we went out to the ball field to join Fred's softball team at the early game even though he wasn't there...these pictures are from last week when it was almost 70 degrees! Notice both the girls playing in the dirt pile...I don't know where they get that from! Welcome Spring...it's time to PLAY BALL!! WAHOO!!

Catching up on March!

Well, here we go again! Thankfully we have been home (well most of us! Fred is in CA as we speak at a conference.) for the better part of March, but still having lots of fun! Birthdays, birthdays and 3 more birthdays this coming weekend! (Not to mention Maggie's birthday coming up the beginning of April!!)

Fred's birthday is (and Lisa's, too!) on the 8th! We celebrated at home with Brownies, with friends at a local Thai restaurant, with Banana Bread in our Sunday School and then with a surprise celebration at Golden Corral (no, not his 60th!) where Lesley, Ty and Alex really took the cake by being the biggest "surprise" of the day! It was great that they were able to make the drive up for the afternoon!! One celebration for each decade completed!! Thankfully, we won't need to extend the party another day for a few more years!!!

Our normal routine has us on Wednesdays at Dance class for both the girls back to back! We have a long standing practice of lunch with Maggie's friends after class, and just last week we tried meeting one of Morgan's friends for breakfast before hand. Okay, it was donuts! (There has to be some motivation to get going earlier than required...for Mommy!) Morgan and her dance friends (Kadence, Sarah and Elena) are really enjoying their class with Mrs. Cora!! It started the middle of February, so at this point they are experts at "Animal Actions" and getting on their "Princess Jewels!" Morgan is doing a great job learning new things every week!

Maggie and her "dance friends" (in no particular order: Avery, Becca, Brookelyn, Ellie, Everest, Gracie, and Sophia) are really bonding very nicely!! They all do such a wonderful job and work so hard to help each other learn new things every week!

Just because...

Who doesn't love flowers?!? I felt bad about my cynical response to their arrival when the answer was, "Just because!" YEAH! I am sorry for doubting your motives...I love you, Fred!