The Crane Family

CHRISTMAS 08'

Doesn't it seem that life just gets better every year?  This year was definitely amongst the tops!  We had such a great Christmas!  We stayed home for Christmas--it was awesome.  The day after we went to Utah--HAPPY NEW YEAR!  This year we hit our 10th annual Family Dance--probably one of the funnest events all year--we pulled out all the stops, and had such a great time.  The Senior Grandkids--and a few extra's made the playlist and included some fine tunes!  I love random music--here's a few for you to enjoy!

This is about 1/3 of the whole crowd--some of the older teenagers 

had already left for their Stake Dances, and we severely missed Andy and 

DeeAnn, Rich and Heidi, Doug and Amber and Em and Chad (and all the kids.)

I'm telling you--everyone was at their finest!!  Dan even 

pulled out the centipede down the tunnel--woo hoo!

The teens showed us old folk a thing or two about 

the new line dances they all learned at EFY--We are so 

old--most of them don't even know the electric slide!
Maddie loved Dancing with Mark!

And of course, after the count down we had a raging round

of "around the world Ping Pong!"  Josh claims to have won--but

this is up for debate!




While in Utah--nothing was left undone!  We had to pull

out the Nativity one more time.  Every year we take it to a new level!

This year we had Wisemen from the East, West, China and 

San Francisco (Zack with the bag!)
And--none else but a real live Choir ( an all time first!)  I know, I know, taking it to a new level!!  As much as we made fun of it all--it turned out to be awesome, and very 

memorable--Cheri had prepared an awesome script!  Josh was "Samuel the Lamanite"  He did a stellar job!

Maddie was the Donkey  and  Allie an Angel





Afterwards, Mom passed out the gifts.  She is hilarious--

we all got new teasing combs--her favorite kind!!!  So of course, 

we all had to try them out--Thanks Mom!!

Good Times at Debbie and Robs Spinning!

Our annual snowshoeing up Southfork!!!

SO much fun--We love the Mountains!

We definitely had so much fun playing!!!  We love

Winter sports!!!  Sledding--The boys jumped 25 feet--(they were proud to announce they measured it!) off the Aspen Grove trails--(it's a good thing all the Dads took them--I'm not sure  I would have gone for that one!)  We also went Skiing--back to our old favorite-- Sundance !!!  And back in Fort Collins we went Ice Skating.   I am loving our kids ages right now--they are SO much fun to play with!!!  It was  so sad to see them go back to school. I love being with them.

Christmas Morning:  Fun times opening 

presents!  The best part was having the 

     whole day together--playing and having fun!--And, 

Having Mark home the whole vacation!

As Tradition goes, the kids could hardly wait to open their Christmas

Eve jammies and lay out cookies for Santa and his Reindeer!

Josh--made sure the cookies looked great!  He is so handy to have around--Especially when it comes to baking!  I'm pretty sure Santa loved them.  

p.s. How could I forget-the most excitement of all? We had a major 

barf-o-rama in Utah. Between all of us coming and going from 

different states a little bug was spread and 31 people threw up!!! 

I say Debbie/Rob and Cher/Bry win the "Manhood and Womanhood"

awards this year! (refer to our family reunion planning guide--

established in 1930-ish??--old enough to have someone in charge of 

raising the cattle/meat for the reunion, I will have to share more of

that fine piece of literature later) I'm sure having us "ralph" all over 

their houses was a real treat!! They wereSO patient. "Another one

bites the dust" became the theme of the week!