My five 8 things: (In no particular order.)

8 Things I Did Yesterday:

1. Took a nap with Hallie
2. Went over to Stacey’s
3. Cut out and started sewing my “project” (will post pictures later)
4. Went to Young Women’s
5. Ate a piece of cake AND a brownie
6. Snuggled with Ben
7. Checked blogs
8. Talked to my BF on the phone

8 Movies I Love To Watch:

1. Borne movies
2. Penelope
3. A Walk to Remember
4. Iron Man
5. Swiss family Robinson
6. Madagascar
7. Step Up 2
8. The Fugitive

8 Things On My Wish List/Look forward to:

1. Hallie sleeping by herself
2. Furniture
3. Perfect Health
4. Beach Vacation
5. New Car
6. House with a yard
7. More kids (ones that sleep!)
8. Debt free

8 TV shows I like to watch:

1. Lost
2. American Idol
3. College Football
4. Little House on the Prairie
5. Oprah
6. Regis and Kelly
7. Rachael Ray
8. Martha Stewart

8 Favorite Restaurants

1. Applebees
2. Cafe Rio
3. Chile’s
4. Wendys
5. Boston Market
6. Famous Dave’s
7. Panera Bread
8. Chic-Fil-A

Here is a little bit of fun…..

Here is how it works-the 1st 3 people to leave a comment on this post will receive at some point during this year a handmade gift from me. What it will be and when it will arrive is a total surprise! The catch is that you must participate as well. Before you leave your comment here write up a pay it forward post on your blog to keep the fun going( or cut and paste..no one will judge you, cause that is what I did). Then come back and let me know you are going to play, and sit back and anticipate the arrival of your gift. Remember only the 1st 3 will qualify. Good Luck!!!

Hallie is now 6 months old. I can’t believe it.

Here are her stats:

Weight: 16 lbs 7 oz. (66%)

Height: 25 inches (55%)

Hallie can roll over back to tummy and tummy to back. She can also scoot and spin circles on her tummy. Any time she is by us and on the floor she reaches for our hands because she knows we will pull her up so she can walk around. That is her favorite new thing-walking around (holding our hands of course). Hallie’s new foods are peas and carrots. (Yummy!) I know I’ve said this before but she really does get more personality every day.

Do any of you have kids that are attached to your hip? I DO!

Hallie and I are inseparable to say the least.  We do everything together. We eat, sleep, cook, clean, go to the bathroom, shower, shop and hang out together.  (I’m sure I left something out.) 🙂

Best friends after church.

Hallie giving me kisses. She grabs my face and lays one on me. So funny I LOVE it!

Cooking with my “attachment”

Ah I love her!!! I never knew I could love someone soooo much. Apparently she feels the same way about me. 🙂

I thought of a funny story that happened a few weeks ago and I thought I’d share. You know those moments where you think you’re cool and someone lets you know very clearly that you’re not. Well that’s what happened.

I am the Miamaids advisor in Young Womens. For one of our combined activities I had to drive the young women around to ward members houses to deliver Christmas cards. I had the David Cook CD in my car and I smiled as I envisioned the girls thinking and also commenting about how young and hip I was. (I was born for Young Women’s! haha)

I picked up the girls and as we headed for the car I casually 🙂 mentioned that I had the David Cook CD in my car and I hoped they liked it. The girls instantly moaned and groaned. They made several comments about how they didn’t like him at ALL. I was shocked! I thought all teenage girls watched and loved American Idol. Where had I gone wrong?

A few minutes later the girls started talking about David Archuleta. Then the light bulb went on. I asked, “Do you guys NOT like David Cook because you like David Archuleta?” They all looked at me like Duhhh.

I had blown it. I had the wrong Idol’s CD; the old people Idol. My bad!

Just as a disclaimer I loved both David’s. 🙂

Showers affect my mental health. Enough said.

P.S. Not my bathroom.

More pictures of our baby.  Ahh we love her!!!!

Hallie wearing her Sunday dress.

Naked play time is the best!

Well if you read the last post by Ben he mentioned our plans for the inaugration weekend. Because we live in DC the inaugration affected us in a drastic way. Our plans changed suddenly when Ben called me from work on Thursday informing me that road closers were forcing him to take the next Wednesday off.  This meant he had a 6 day vacation from work. My parents are always talking about how much they miss Hallie and wish we could go back and visit (even though we were just there for Christmas). So after checking flight prices and yo-yoing back and forth whether to go or not we called my parents. They were thrilled and couldn’t wait to see their little princess.

Our trip started off before the sun was up Saturday morning and dragged on until the sun had gone down. Our first flight was rerouted and delayed. We waited in the DC airport for 3 1/2 hours.  Unbelievable!! However the rest of the trip wasn’t bad, just long.  We counted up all of Hallie’s plane rides and our return flights were number 11 and 12.  She’s such a good sport!

Here are some pictures of the trip.

Hallie got her own seat on one of the flights

Looking out the window

Four Generations of Crane’s

Hallie got to meet her Great Grandparents

Hallie also got to meet my old companion Honivah Rafaranirindraibe

There were a lot of things that we did that unfortunately we didn’t take pictures of.  With the help of babysitters Ben and I were able to escape and go to lunch and later bowling. (Our first date since Hallie was born.) Thanks mom for watching Hallie. We were also able to go to the Temple-thanks LaRae and Kyle.  And last but not least Ben talked me into skinny dipping in the hot tub! Ahhh so funny, but also very enjoyable. Swimsuits are a pain! 🙂

I think that sums up our trip, except the fact that our flight home was also delayed but only for an hour this time. Lucky us! Ugghhh

Now we are home and oh so grateful we live in the DC area. It is home to us now and we love it. (Besides the missing family part.)

Thanks Mom and Dad for flying us out. We love you and miss you already!!