Ju's baby blessing

In our church we give newborns a name and a blessing. We blessed Ju on New Year's Day. I thought it was fitting to bless her that day since she is a new baby and we celebrate newness that day. We also had a lot of family in town for the holidays. We had a brunch for our friends and family members before going over to the church for the blessing.

I love Ju's beautiful white dress.

Here is Ju with her namesakes.

Our family that day.

A few more photos

Merry Christmas!

We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas from the Crane family! We have had a pretty good year.

Raymond is still working for Sterling ATM helping with bill of materials, production scheduling, and shipping. He is serving as the Sunday School President at church. He still likes playing the guitar and playing basketball.

Jamie is teaching piano and voice lessons. She has around eleven students. She is serving as the primary chorister and the choir accompanist at church.

S is in third grade now. He loves to read books, especially if they are funny. He is learning to play the piano. He also likes to play video games with his brothers. The games they like to play this year are Angry Birds, Fancy Pants, Active Life Explorer, Little Big Planet and Star Wars.

A is in second grade. He likes animals, especially big cats.

G started kindergarten. He is adjusting to the longer school day as well as the homework. He likes to make cinnamon toast.

J is in preschool. She loves all things "girl." Her favorite color is pink. She likes princesses and ponies. She also likes to play pretend.

Aa is a very active two year old. You never know what he will get into. He loves to do whatever his brothers are doing.

We welcomed a new little girl into our family this year. Ju is now three months old. She loves to be held. She has a great smile. She has slept through the night almost since day one.

We are looking forward to 2012 and the changes it will bring! Wishing you happiness in the year to come! Love you all.

Movember

Have you heard about "Movember?" During the month of November "Mo Bros" grow a moustache to raise awareness of men's health. You can learn more at http://us.movember.com/about
Here is Raymond's Movember 'stache.

Halloween 2011

I'm a little slow posting these, Thanksgiving is only a week away, but here are some pictures from our Halloween this year. First a group shot before trick or treating.
J decided to be a fairy this year.

Aa went as Frankenstein's Monster. He didn't want to wear a costume until I put candy in his "Feed Me" pocket.


A wanted to be the Grim Reaper.

Gideon wanted to be Bumblebee the transformer. I didn't have a Bumblebee costume, so I was glad he changed his mind and decided to be Superman.

But then he changed his mind and really did want to be Bumblebee. This is what we improvised.

Samuel's class did a Zombie dance for school to Micheal Jackson's "Thriller." So for school Samuel looked like this.

But for trick or treating he wanted to be the transformer Megatron.

Hope you all had a great Halloween!

It's a Girl!

On September 14 we welcomed a new baby girl to our family. We are so excited! She is named Juliandrea.

A Very Dora Birthday

Here are some pictures of J's birthday. Not only was her cake Dora, but she got a lot of Dora presents like a Dora Snow Cone maker and a Dora dress up set. She got some cute hair barrets as well.


A also celebrated a birthday. He loves big cats and wanted a snow leopard cake. It turned out really nice, but the pictures are on my camera which I can't find. Hopefully I'll find it soon so I can let you see his cake. He got a really fun game for the Wii that all of the kids have been enjoying.

Jumping out of swings... backwards!

We have a swing set in our backyard for the kids to play on. G just learned this summer how to jump out of the swing. So, of course, the next feat to accomplish is to jump out of the swing backwards! Unfortunately he found out this wasn't such a great idea the hard way. He landed on his right arm and broke both of the bones in his forearm. He gets a cool new hard cast on Wednesday!