Weekend of Fun!

Holla, I am posting this from my blackberry! I didn't know I was this savy! Well, really I'm not but you have to admit its pretty cool. Well as the title says, Kendall and I had a great weekend! Friday night we went to the Sarah Evans concert in Nampa, I'd and we met up with the Nelsons who also had tickets. We were able to get great seats thanks to the Givens and their friends who got there earlier than us. So thank you! Sara put on a great show, I had forgotten how much I love her! We were able to go thanks to my boss Ben who gave me the extra tickets he had! Even Kendall had fun :). After the concert we met the Nelsons and our other friends the Bastians at Shari's for a late night dinner! We all had a blast and were the loudest ones in there I am sure.

Saturday we got to sleep in which was great. Who doesn't like sleeping in every once and a while? Then we decided to use our passes to the water park here, Roaring Springs, since it was the last weekend it would be open for the season. It ended up not being very crowded so we got to walk right onto everything! More than once. I must admit one of the slides we got to go on together was pretty SCARY! Kendall's face was priceless! Also I will have you all know kendall was like a kid in a candy store in the big wave pool! I don't know how many times we went in and out of there. It was great! I am glad we got to experience it. Don't worry our events for the weekend do not end there. Saturday night we went to the seasonal Halloween superstore here to take a look around. We were there for quite some time looking and trying on everything! We found some great stuff! Crazy, funny and outlandish even. We were looking for costumes we could be as a couple. I must say I came up with the idea and didn't think my wonderful hubby would take to it so well! But he has been looking eversince! Here are some ideas we have: pharoah and Cleopatra, scarecrow and Dorothy, or Mark Antony and some greek goddes or something for me. Any other ideas? We asked our primary kids last week and they gave us the pharoah idea, but they also suggested Jasmine and Aladin, or just me as some Disney princess. They all had some pretty good ideas.

Labor Day Trip

For Labor Day weekend Kendall and I went down to Menan to visit the family and go to Trevan's flag football game. Even though it was a long weekend it seemed like a quick trip. Saturday morning we went to Trevan's football game and it was so much fun to sit and watch him play. Although, poor little brother Heydan was just trying to get in the game himself! Only a few more years Heydan! Now these are 5 and 6 year olds playing here so picture these little kids with these huge mouth guards in their mouths. The whole field was like a color show in between plays (and during!) with each kid popping his or her mouth guard out and playing with it. Neon green, yellow, pink, black etc... It was pretty funny to watch. I guess they are still just learning how to breath with them in! Trevan is a great little athlete though and we really enjoyed getting to see him play.

The rest of the weekend was mostly just much needed R and R. We sat around and watched TV a lot. Darn those Top Model marathons right Cathie! I did help cousin Brittany with her baby shower announcements. We had fun making cut-outs with the Cricut! Which by the way is one of the coolest things if you are into scrap booking and fun things like that! Like cousin Melissa and aunt Susie say, "It makes you a better wife and mother!" That will be my excuse to get on someday. I also got to drive Scott's Miata around a bit. That was great! Hey Scott, we will gladly take it off your hands so you can fit your new fast car in your garage soon!

All in all the weekend was pretty relaxing so that was nice. Spending time with my in-laws is always one of my favorite things! Hope to see you all soon!

The Name Game

So at work we have been talking a lot about baby names since one of my coworkers is about to become a grandma. Of course I love the topic of baby anything really! Last weekend Kendall and I found a book of baby names now and purused through it finding some pretty funny names. Naturally, I went back and bought it this week (hey, it was super cheap so why not!) and brought it to work so we could all have fun. We found a few good ones as a play on Karen's daughter's last name. So I thought I would have some fun myself! Let me know what you all think.

1. Ichabod Crane (fairytale)
2. Candi Crane (sounds like a...well you know)
3. Sugar Crane (are we from Hawaii?)
4. Jauquin Crane (walking cane?)
5. Africa Crane (Bird?)

Two Families and a Wedding!

I recently got back from a trip to Oregon to visit with family. I flew out to be there for my grandma Shirley's (Lightheart, for my fellow Crane/Poole readers :)) wedding. She is now officially Shirley Lightheart-Perkins! Congratulations Jim and Shirley! I had a great time visiting everyone and being able to help with wedding preparations. Although, it brought back way to many memories of my own wedding planning not so long ago; some good some bad! I am sure you women out there can relate. It turned out great though, simple and beautiful. My lovely grandma wore a beautiful sage green dress and she looked absolutely radiant! Her colors were blue and sage green so my Aunt Janet and I went looking for some cute ribbon and flowers for her youngest girl, Emily, to make her look like the cutest flower girl ever! I do believe we succeeded. Wouldn't you say Jan? I had fun doing little Emily's hair. It's a good thing she is one of those rare two year olds who likes getting her hair done! She was precious! I love getting together and seeing all my family, especially when it has been so long. All my little cousins (and yes I can say little, I am the oldest still!) grow up so fast. The boys definitley passed me in height a long time ago.

Before visiting the Lighthearts and all the wedding festivities I was able to spend time with my other family, the Lightcap's. (No, there is no typo. Lightheart and Lightcap, crazy). I always love visiting my aunts and grandparents when I get the chance. My Aunt Pam (Big hair, you can't miss it) is great. We have always got along and she has always been a huge part of my life! She has recently become a grandmother herself! So I got to meet the little man, Sean. My cousin Mallory and her boyfriend Nick's little boy. He is about 7 months old and just a cute and sweet as can be. Baby hungry? Yes, I must admit I am. He is one of those rare really really good babies who just come out sleeping through the night and smiling all the time! I had a great time playing with Sean and all his fun baby food...have you been down the baby food aisle recently?! Well all in all I had a great time with all my family in Oregon and I miss them all already!

Just for Fun

Don't we look just like our celebrities?! This was pretty fun to do, I have seen it on a few on my fellow bloggers pages and thought I would give it a whirl for Kendall and I! Of course Kendall is refusing to let me post is, but I figure I'll post it anyway and see how long it take for him to take it down! It was fun to do because depending on what picture we used the celebrities were different. So naturally we did it until we got a set that was fairly decent, who wouldn't?! So if you get bored give it a try!

Summertime

Well it is definitely summertime here in Boise, ID! It has been so hot the past few weeks, no more indecisive weather! I don't think I was prepared for how hot the summers are in Boise, I only love the hot weather for so long. At least we have been doing fun activities in the sun! We go boating quite a bit with some good friends of ours, the Nelson's. We love our boating group! Kendall has been learning to wake board this summer for the first time and has picked it up like a charm! Now its just the staying up for long periods of time bit, which is where my own skills come into play. I didn't have much experience to begin with but I was at least familiar with it. He is definitely passed me up though! Its been fun to go to the different lakes around the area, there are some beautiful places! Most recently we went up to Lucky Peak area and boated there. Its also a great place for camping and hiking our friends tell us so we will have to try that out soon.

Fourth of July!

To start off I hope everyone had a great Fourth of July weekend! We definitely did! Kendall and I were able to make it down to his family's place in the very large town of Menan, ID (population 700, seriously)for the annual under the apple tree celebration. This a very big event in the Crane/Poole family and has been going strong for ten plus years. For those of you who attend you know what I am talking about, but this party is great! Its tradition to get shirts made and change the color each year, this year the shirts were white with and option to tie dye at the tie dye party (my idea on the tie dying a year ago! sadly I didn't get to do my own). The shirts turned out great and there was lots of fun designs and some, even on the little ones! Back to the small town, Kendall's family is about half the population with his mom and dad and grandparents and two aunts all close by each other (walking distance of course). The "apple tree" does in fact exist and believe it or not, produces apples! :) Family and friends come from all over each fourth of July to party and camp out for days sometimes! It really is great, I love family reunions and I have the best in-laws anyone could ask for!

Menan has a parade that is lot of fun and they also have a big place where there are lots of food booths, games, and crafts so it was hard to be bored. It seems to get better each year (this is my second, and a half time)! The best part of the day is the fireworks at night of course, the apple tree area has prime seating for the huge firework show! (Serious, huge show! I have been a veteran of stadium of fire so I have some comparison here!)

Kendall's two brothers have two kids each so I have recently become an aunt and am loving it! They are some of the cutest little ones I have ever seen so I guess that's good news for us someday right?! fingers crossed :) The funny part of the weekend was the new hair cuts for the "Crane sisters" myself included. I recently cut my hair into a short a-line so my sister-in-laws and I all have very similar hair (did I mention dark hair brown eyes too?!) Be careful who you walk up behind boys!!

Our cousin Melissa came for the festivities all the way from Arkansas with her brand new baby boy! He was even better than the fireworks! Micah is now 8 weeks old and has a head full of dark hair, such a little man! Melissa is a wonderful little mommy already and I was so happy to spend the weekend with her chatting and talking about her new adventure. I definitely wished we lived closer to her! Hopefully someday.

We were also able to do a little float down the river, or better known as the "dry beds" for those of you who are from the area. We had 23 people go and we each got our own big tire tubs. It was a lot of fun despite the two minor (maybe not so minor if you were involved) incidents. Kyle, Kendall's middle brother cut himself on a rock going through the "rapids" and later on ended up getting stitches, and Danika my sister-in-law had a little bit of a scare when she was thrown off her tube and stuck under the water but Carissa and I were there for the rescue! Sounds traumatic but really its pretty smooth sailing most of the time, so I think it will become a tradition. We are glad they are okay though!!