On October 9, 2011 we blessed our little miracle. Of course as everyone knows we named him MAXWELL JAMES CANNON. During the blessing Wayne kept referring to him as JAMES, which is funny because we've been calling him MAX...it was kind of a sweet moment for me and I thought about the name JAMES. We really struggled naming Maxwell, we knew we wanted a family name but couldn't decide on which family name to use. Jay's name is full of family. JAY is Wayne's dads name and SORENSEN is my maiden name...you don't get more family than that!!! Wayne loved the name MAX and it's hard to come up with a family name that goes with that. JAMES sounds good with everything! My only reservation in using JAMES was that there were already so many JAMES'. Anyway as I sat in the congregation (tears in my eyes) I listened to Wayne repeatedly call Max JAMES, and I thought of all the JAMES' in our family. (on both sides) My maternal grandfather is CLAYTON JAMES KEARL, I have a brother JAMES TYLER whose youngest son is NATHAN JAMES, a brother in-law STEPHEN JAMES whose oldest son is MITCHELL JAMES and my oldest brother Andy has a son BENJAMIN JAMES. When Wayne said James over and over in the blessing I was so touched by each of the James' in his life. Stephen, Mitchell, Tyler and Nathan were all present at the blessing. My nephew Benjamin has always had a special place in my heart...as I mentioned he belongs to Andy and Andy and I have always had kids close to the same time. Bethany and Britt are one month apart. Nick and Jay are 7 months apart. Bella and Ally are 8 months apart. Whenever we would get together with their family Ben never had a buddy and it was always a reminder to me of the miscarriage I had. Ben was cheated of a buddy!!! I seriously thought of it EVERY TIME!!! Andy and Mel recently adopted a little boy so we've held our tradition of having kids together, this time Mel skipped out on the delivery but her process of getting Josh wasn't easy!!! Okay, I've rambled on enough, but needless to say JAMES is a special name and we love it!!! We do still call him MAX, but we love his given name of MAXWELL JAMES CANNON!!! 
Below is a picture of MAX with my dad, who made Max's blessing outfit! My mom was on a quest to find the perfect outfit and said nothing in the stores was special enough for him and half heartily suggested my dad make one and he agreed! It was of course amazing and so perfect for our MAX!!! 
In the picture below is NATHAN JAMES, JAMES TYLER AND MAXWELL JAMES
Max's blessing day was great! I will next do a post about the whole weekend. Tyler and his family came down from Spokane and baptized their son Ryan in our stake. It was so nice of them to combine the weekend so that lots of family could participate in both and only have to travel once!!! STAY TUNED...
