Cousin's Weekend

I will start off by saying that there is a video on here that is not from this week but from Tayton's birthday party. I think this was a hit for sure! Thanks Gina, Andy, and Jason!

 This weekend we got to have the Lund Girls over for the weekend while their mom and dad went skiing. The kids started out by waking up at 5:30 am. wanting to know when the cousins were coming.  While Tomi was getting Noah ready, she combed his hair and Noah explains, "Don't make my hair look funky Mom, my cousins are coming."  Tomi took them to feed the ducks, and did lots of crafts with them. They each got to decorate their own picture frames! I was not there but apparently the ducks attacked everyone, but things got much better when they fed the ducks from the safety of the gazebo that overhangs the duck pond.

Saturday we took all the kids to a movie on the base. We recently found out that they do a free movie every Saturday so this  Saturday the movie was "Rise of the Guardians". Cute movie and everyone enjoyed watching it while we stuffed ourselves with treats and popcorn.

The kids loved to shovel snow tunnels in the backyard and they all made a HUGE train track for the trains that used almost all of the track. The girls loved playing on the iPads and more then once I found one of them hiding somewhere so they could get their time on an iPad by their selves.

After 2 days of skiing and snowboarding Teri and Kelly showed up looking like zombies. They had an interesting story to tell about Kelly's "out of bounds" skiing experience that he will have to tell
you. Maybe you will read that in their news letter. We invited everyone to stay the night and then had leftovers for dinner. After both Ski bums had a shower/bath and dinner they began to resemble
humans again and we started on the bedtime routine. With 6 kids it takes about an hour or more!
We read stories,brushed teeth,said prayers, and got all the sleeping arrangements set up.  After the herd was put to bed the adults enjoyed and game of "Settlers of Catan" (board game) in which Teri complained the whole game that we were picking on her and then proceeded to beat us all.

This morning Noah did his due diligence and got every kid up at about 6:30. Phrases such as "Shhh you'll wake my mom and dad" and "lets get Sonny" could be heard while the adults feigned sleep. Well that's all from the Crane house.

P.S. did I mention we are all still sick. . . after 8 days??