Mewwy Chwistmasss! :)

WHAT?!?!?! TWO posts in ONE day?! No way... WAY! Since people double gift for my birthday and Christmas.. I'm making a statement to "double-post" ;) Just jokes... but seriously.

It was a good, yet weird Christmas. Well, it started off weird anyway. Mom and Dad came into my room early to wake me up to open presents. It was sooooooo strange opening presents with just me, mom and dad. Isn't it like an unwritten and rule that your siblings come home for Christmas???? From the words of Bon Qui Qui- Rude. It was still good though. I felt pretty spoiled opening present after present after present with no interruption. That was ONE pro to add to my mainly CON list of being the only one home for Christmas morning. Traditionally, we had some of the extended fam come over for a Christmas feast later that day, that was fer fun :) Drum roll please........ and the highlight of the day goes to............. TALKING TO SAMMERS in LA:) TA DA! We even got to Skype him with the entire family. He looked SO good and happy! Awh.. we're proud of you Sammie Wammie :) Mewwy Chwistmasss! :) I hope everyone had a good day! I know I did. In fact, I had SUCH a good day that I'm going to go celebrate at the gym at 5:30am tomorrow morning. Awesome.

Happy Birthday To MEEEE :)

At this rate I'm probably blogging about once a semester. Sorry. I guess my life just isn't that exciting? What IS exciting is that I'm twenty fetching years old now. Weird. My teen days are over. I think I should expect people to take me more seriously now, right? Anyway, it was a pretty good birthday for it being on a Sunday. Not too eventful, but we had an awesome dinner (thanks marrm) and fun presents and a couple of grammies and gramppies that came to celebrate with us. OH and I can't forget to mention Grammie Cottrell's famous red-velvet cake! YUM. She even dyed the frosting pink for me since this time, Sam wasn't there to share the celebration due to him bein on the mish. She said out of all the years of making that cake, that was the first time she dyed the frosting a different color. So pretty much, I'm kind of a big deal ;) It's crazy to think what this year could bring! I might be either married or on a mission this time next year. (Most likely on a mission)

Unexpected New Adventure!

Could this be the climax of this chapter in "Sara's Story???" A few weeks ago I randomly and unexpectedly tried out for the UVU ballroom dance team. I really didn't expect anything to happen except for maybe to get my face out there so when and if I actually became somewhat good at ballroom dancing, they might recognize me down the road. When I got to tryouts, they had me dance the Waltz and Cha-Cha. I felt okay about my performance but as the tryouts went on I felt more unsure so I kept telling myself, "This is just for fun Sara, this is just for fun." Me being the competitive person that I am, I really wanted to be on the team but I realized that most everyone else had been dancing pretty much their whole lives and that I should definitely not get my hopes up. The judges said, "Okay, now we're going to call out some numbers that we want to see how fast they can catch onto choreography, so those of you who's number is called, stick around. The rest can go home." They must have called 50 numbers and mine wasn't one of them. The only numbers that weren't called was mine and what seemed like the handicaps.. alright that was mean, but I honestly thought after that, that whatever chance I had before, it was gone out the window. So I went home and called my mom. I told her I didn't make it and told her I didn't even need to go look at the results. So I didn't. They posted them on Saturday night at 5 pm and I didn't even think twice about going to check if I made it or not. Well, Sunday morning rolls around and there's a thought in the back of my mind that I should at least go check while no one is around and no one was at the school since it was Sunday. So on the way to my cousins homecoming, I stopped by the school. I checked the doors and they were locked. Drat. Just as I go to leave, I see a news paper holding open the last door. Curiosity got the best of me. I looked around to see if anyone was watching and I go inside. For the life of me I could not find where it was posted. Just as I turned the corner, a police officer comes out in front of me with his hand on his gun. Talk about wanting to wet myself. He says to me, "can I help you?" "Um, yeah, I'm trying to find the ballroom dance team posting?" "I don't think it would be posted on a Sunday" (like i'm an idiot) "Well, it was actually posted last night and I wasn't able to get here." (I lied) I'm so sure, I'm such a threat in my pencil skirt. So he helped me find it and let me have my space. I looked on the "Bronze" team and couldn't find my name. I thought to my self, I told you so. As I went to leave and then I remembered that I had circled the "Silver Team" as well, just for kicks and giggles. So I went back and looked and guess who's name was #3?!?! Sigh... mine :)... I kept starring at it like I was hallucinating or something. So I took a picture of it with my phone to have someone else look at it to make sure what I was looking at was for real. Seriously, I half expected to show up to practice and have them tell me it was a mistake. So before class I literally went and checked the posting one more time, and prepared myself for them to tell me it was a mistake. I didn't even tell anyone outside of my family that I made it before I showed up to the first practice and made sure they accepted me! Anyway, obviously I'm the worst one on the team, but I'm starting to catch up to everyone and so far it's been sooooo fun! I love it! Our first performance is in a few weeks and our big show is the first of December :) YAY for UVU Ballroom!!!!!! :)

Finally.. the video of the new apt

On to the Next Chapter in Sara's Story...

Welp, I've moved into my new apartment, met my new roommates, and have just about completed my first week of school this semester. I'm taking some really fun classes like Ballroom and a Tennis class and some interesting ones like Humanities and Psychology, so I'm really excited for a new semester! I found out the other day that if all goes as planned, I can get my associates in April! So that's pretty exciting. My apartment is really cute and even nicer than my other one! I've got three really cute roommates that I already love and I can tell we're all going to become really close. I'm going to post some pictures somehow but I'm kind of limited because my camera is broken. Lame. (It's on my Christmas list). But I'll figure it out ;) Anyway.. let the good times begin!!

Coming to the end of a wonderful chapter in Sara's Story

As most know, I've been staying at my sister and brother-in-law's house all summer working and helping out around the house in Georgia. Well... I leave today :( I'm going to miss them soo much! It's definitely bitter-sweet.What an incredible experience I've had! From working my first full-time job at an Orthodontist office to learning what it takes to be a mom, it's been quite the learning process this summer to say the least! Words can't express my gratitude to my sister, Cami who has let me take over a whole bedroom and bathroom in her house, eat her food, and making her take me back and forth to work every other week for about 3 1/2 months! Thanks for puttin' up with me Camayamaya :) It's been such a blessing to save some money for college, I'm gonna need it! Plus, like I said before, I've gotten a little taste of what it takes to be a real live mom! Cami and Erik trusted me enough to leave me with the kids for 4 days while they went to Las Vegas. Shocker, right? My goal was to just keep them alive till they got back! It actually turned out really well though! No problems whatsoever! We went to the pool, I took them on some walks in their wagon, Mcdonads, a church activity and  I even took them to the pet store and let them pick out a fish to take home (without Cami's knowledge by the way) oops. My bad. But they ended up LOVING Gill, the fish. Even though he looks like a worm that swims. Gabe absolutely insisted that the worm with fins was the one we needed to take home. Every morning Grace would get up and point to Gill and say, "Gi, Gi!!!!"and then laugh hysterically. Worth EVERY penny! And Gabe would go up to everyone we saw and say, "Hey, guess what? We have a new fish! And his name is Gill! He's visiting us for a while." Now, every morning he say's "Good morning Gill!" I had to win them over somehow, right? Anyway, that was the highlight of the weekend I think. The kids were angels (like they always are) and it was a good time! It's going to literally break my heart leaving them! I'm excited about a lot of things, but definitely not that! Who votes the Cannons move back to Utah?? MEEEEEEEEE!! Sigh.. I need my sisters closer to me. Cami? Laci? Lets be mature and come back home where you belong mmkay? Anyway, I just wanted to make sure Cami (and Erik and the babies of course) know how appreciative I am to them! This experience will help me the rest of my life!! Thank you sooo much for being such a good example to me in so many ways! You've taught me by example patience, love, having a good attitude when it's nearly impossible, doing things even if you don't want to and how important service is :) The light of Christ radiates from you! Wub you big sissner! Give the kids a kiss for me :)

Depew Orthodontics

This summer I had the incredible opportunity to work at Depew Orthodontics in Georgia. On of my friends Dad who used to be in Cami's ward hooked me up! It's not very often that jobs fall into your lap! Especially in this economy! Talk about a blessing! Everything worked out soooo well. Dr. Depew even runs an Orthodontic assisting college as well and he even signed me up for it online for FREE! And I can do it on my own time at my own pace! Everyone was so nice and welcoming to me and I made so many friendships, memories, and not to mention all the benefits I've gained from it! I even had a couple missionary experiences! I definitely lucked out :)

Shannon was sooooo nice to me! Love her!

Dr. D, Brittney and Shannon

They got me a cake! So cute and nice of them :) not to mention a card that they all signed and a $25 visa!