Long time, no blog

Sorry it's been a LONG time since we last posted anything. I know you're all so interested to know what has been going on in our lives so I will inform you.

HyVee and Harry Potter

Melanie and I both started back up working at a local grocery store. Melanie had a job in the bakery and I worked as a cashier.

One day Melanie and I wore pretty much the same outfit to work, so naturally we took a pic!

Here is a picture of the beautifully decorated cake for my birthday by Melanie. Decorating cakes was one of the many things she did while working in the bakery.

When Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince hit theaters, Melanie and I, and a few friends went to the midnight premiere. Only a few of us dressed up, but we looked good! Here is a picture of Caleb (Ron), Melanie (Harry), and Me (Hermione).

This is our group in the theater before anyone else showed up in it. We got there pretty early.

We Love the Royals!!!

Growing up in Kansas City, I've been a Kansas City Royals fan most of my life. A lot of people don't know this, but I really enjoy watching baseball games. Especially the Royals. They may not always win, in fact it's kind of a rare thing, but I'm still a loyal fan. This summer, we went to quite a few games.

Melanie and I
Melanie and I again.

Melanie and I yet again. I think people sitting around us got annoyed because we were pretty loud and excited fans :)

This was one of the last family outings we had before Melanie went back to school. It was a ton of fun.

Singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the 7th inning strrreetch!

We often got to games early because of T-Shirt Tuesdays! T-Shirt Tuesday is usually one tuesday a month, when the first 10-20 thousand fans get a free t-shirt. They're some of my favorite times to go to Royals games. In fact, in all of these pictures, we're sporting T-shirt Tuesday t-shirts. Sometimes we'd get there a long time before the game started and so we'd have some time to kill. This is how Melanie and I would spend it. Walking around Kauffman stadium, taking pictures, etc. Above is a picture of Melanie "supporting" Zack Greinke.

And here he is stepping on my head...

Melanie and I made up a lot of differnet cheers and things we would do to pass the time and enjoy ourselves during the games. Usually when we walked through the gates to get into the games melanie yelled, in a voice I can't describe, "I Love the ROYALS!!" So now it's something we all say frequently.

EFY and Youth Conference

This summer I had Youth Conference and EFY one after the other. Youth Conference was Friday-Saturday, and then on Monday I headed out to EFY.

Here's a picture of Me and a couple of girls from our stake at a dance.

Here's a picture of me and the other two girls in my group at Youth conference. This is a picture of us at a service project at a petting zoo. Karlin (yellow) Me (blue) and Jess (red).

This is a picture from the last night of EFY. Ashley, Me, Kate, and Brynn. We were suite mates. This was in our little "living room." Ashley and Brynn are from Missouri and shared one room. Kate is in my stake and we shared the other. It was a fun but extremely exhausting week.


It's a Boy!

We had a mini Crane reunion for a week during August.



We had a sisters baby shower for Carrie on one day. Above is the delicious cake we had decorated.

All of the sisters with the presents.

What a lucky baby! He's going to be one well dressed boy.

While we were all together we got some sister pictures taken. (It's kind of blurry because I had to scan the picture into the computer)

After we got our pictures taken, we went out to eat at Red Robin. Yum! This is all of us in the car on the way there.

We got balloons at Red Robin and took pictures trying to be Carrie. (she also has a balloon under her shirt)

Then we released them into the wind in honor of Brandi.

Another thing we did was before Carrie could come. We went to a Water Park.

Here is Melanie and Emily with another cake Melanie decorated for her birthday.

And finally, a traditional Sunday picture.

It was a fun summer. I miss having all of them here, but the Holidays are coming up and I'll get to see them soon!

I'll try to be better about blogging so the posts won't be so long.

Enjoy!