Okay, well technically she was not coming down for a couple weeks but she moved her flight up for me! I guess that's what happens when you call your mom crying. Hmmmm... I should do that more often!
I have been sick for the entire month of January, finally I couldn't take it anymore and got on some antibiotics. I feel much better now. Since January was so crazy, I was totally neglecting my duties, my super Mommy came to save the day! She spoiled my children, she always brings them pj's, toys and books. By the second day my kids new that MaGa's suitcase held fun treasures. They were in Heaven. I was in Heaven, my mom took care of the kids at night, let me sleep in, made me tons of delicious food( she should be a professional cook) and cleaned my entire house. Awww, how nice.


Funny story
I always try and replicate my moms potato cheese soup, it is alright but nothing amazing. Darrin and I will still eat it. Every time my Mom is in town I have her make it for me, that day my mom had to leave but still made the soup for us. When Darrin got home, we started eating her delicious soup. He thought I made it since my mom was already gone. He looked at me and said "What did you do different this time, it is sooo good!" I said "My Mom made it." I just laughed, luckily I was in a good mood so he didn't get in trouble.
Yes, it is that good! Yum, now I am craving it.

We are sad MaGa left. (Colby switches Grandma around and now he calls both of his grandmas MA-Ga. He is sometimes a little dyslexic, I think I do that sometimes)

Posted in: 2011, colby, ethan, millers, riss on Friday, February 11, 2011 at 2 comments  

Okay, I know what others are thinking, you are a grown woman, adult, mother of 2 kids, how are you possibly scared of the dark.

I am! Isn't that silly.

Darrin sometimes has to go to work early, yesterday he left at 2:30 am. I woke up at 3:30 and just knowing he is already gone makes me scared. So what does an irrational gal do, I get up, check on the kids, check all of the doors, turn on some lights and then sit in front of the computer. Finally at 5 I decide the big attempt; going back to sleep. Colby and Ethan woke me up at 6 so I did catch a few zzzz's.

Why on earth do I think such crazy things at night, I am so unreasonable. Maybe I should take self defense or sleep with mace or get a body guard. Yeah, I like the last one.

Tonight I am off to bed early!

Posted in: 2011, riss on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 2 comments  

Colby-
*sweet kid, always cares about others feelings
*pets his brothers head, while Ethan gets his diaper changed, than takes it to the garbage (when it is poopy, he waves his hand in front of his nose, and says "Ewww, stinky butt")
*hates wearing pants, always in a shirt and underwear
*loves his blankie, brings it everywhere
*chases Ethan around, and make Ethan laugh so hard, adorable.
*is Ethan's protector. When Ethan gets stuck, he will come get me, when Ethan wakes up, he likes Ethan to sit on his lap, he will protect him from everything, he is an amazing older brother

Ethan-
*loves doing head stands
*loves taking his brothers chocolate milk, and juice
*cuddles for 2 seconds and than he is off to explore
*goes to bed a 6, doesn't even like to cuddle, I put him in his crib with a bottle and doesn't fuss once
*wakes up at 6-6:30, down side ;)
*books it- the instant I put him down, major explorer!
*loves to play with Colby's hair


both Colby and Ethan

*they spin in circles, until they fall laughing and smiling
*if one cries the other will start, they hate seeing each other sad
*if I put them to bed at the same time, I will hear them laughing, in the morning I will find lots of toys in Ethan's crib thanks to his big bro

Love my boys! they are a lot of work, every day they make me smile. I don't get paid but they are worth everything to me. When I see Colby and Ethan's faces I know that everything is okay and that all the money or the worldly things in the world will never take away how happy they make me. Even on rough days, one smile or one big hug, it makes it all worth it.

Mommy loves You!

Posted in: 2011, colby, ethan, munchkin update on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 2 comments  

Colby is at the copy stage. He saw Dad was eating chips so he went into the pantry to get his own bag.











This is Colby's new camera smile, he thinks he is pretty hilarious. He squints or closes his eyes and puts on a big grin. Adorable!

Posted in: 2011, colby, dad on Friday, January 7, 2011 at 0 comments  

This totally reminds me of ME. My parents have tons of pictures of me waiting, waiting by my bedroom door after my siblings went to bed so that I could come back out and play. Colby always is playing with his toys right by his door- waiting. Like mother like son!

Posted in: 2011, colby on Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 1 comments  

We had a great time, we were able to hang out with family, play games, eat yummy food, relax and enjoy Christmas vacation.




It is now a Craner tradition to have a dinner where the adults are the waiters and the kids are the guests. This year we had a 50's diner. We had a blast. The basement got decked out, we had a milkshake bar, homemade fries and onion rings, hamburgers, hot dogs and chicken nuggets.




























These are pictures of all of the nieces and nephews that were in Utah for Christmas, and below is Tammy and Karli cranking up awesome milkshakes.













Here is Darrin, Brandon and Pat jamming out for the restaurant. They sang a couple tunes for the kids, they get totally into it, it is awesome, should have been there.
















Temple Square Lights

We made the drive up to SLC to see the temple lights. First off, it was freezing! We were all so cold. We are now way to used to California weather. Brrrrrrrrrr, good thing there is a Starbucks on every block. Second, kindof dissappointed in the lights. Maybe I remember them differently when I was younger because I was younger but I swear the lights used to be way better. They still have a lot but now not every little tree is covered. That is the point of looking at the lights! I think I am going to start a fund for better temple square lights. :) Anyways, Darrins oldest brother David and his family met up with us and that was fun. We did get some great picts, I do like the reflecting pool how they had the statue of Joseph, Mary and Jesus, I think that was my fav part.














I wonder if me thinking layering a ton of shirts and jackets and coats is counter productive because I was still freezing! On another note, we had to keep bending down to take take pictures next to Ethan, it was to cold to keep getting him in and out of the stroller. What a trooper!

Posted in: 2010, christmas, colby, craners, darrin, ethan, riss, us, vacation on Friday, December 31, 2010 at 3 comments  

Here goes, I wanted to get GOOD pictures of our family, Darrin had been working a ton so we never had time to get a fam picture. I decided to try all by myself.

WOW, how on earth do you get 2 little boys to pose together, both looking at the camera, and not move. Pretty much an impossible task.











This is about 15 seconds into the photo shoot. They both started jumping up and down on the chair, like it was the best outing ever. So I decided to try another location that might be more boring.......












Nope, stairs are way to interesting.


















I even tried putting them in a decorative basket, nope that didn't work either. The little escape artists.


At last, 100 pictures taken, a mother who you could say is losing her cool, but hey one great picture!

Posted in: 2010, colby, ethan, photo shoot on Sunday, December 12, 2010 at 6 comments