And baby makes tres...

Well, here we are again. So stinkin' much has happened the last couple of months. But I'll try and remember it all.
First and foremost, we are having a baby girl! We had the ultasound today and everything looks great. She is beautiful! She already has a little bit of an attitude. I think she gets that from her dad. It was so amazing to finally see her. This was one of the best pictures she would give us. It was like she was thinking "Ok, guys. I'll give you a good one to start with, but that's all you get. Suckers!" Funny girl. So now begins the fun of buying baby stuff and packing our new apartment full of girly things.
Which brings us to our next topic. We moved! We're out of the tiny box of an apartment we were living in all summer and now we reside in what we consider a "great and spacious" place. It's two bedrooms, has a dishwasher and a disposal, is in a great ward, and we just can't say enough good things about it. It's perfect.
Danny and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary. Since I work like all the time, we had to celebrate a couple days early. He took me to The Roof up in Salt Lake. We had an amazing view of the Salt Lake Temple as the sun was going down, plus it was an all you can eat buffet. Woohoo! It was a wonderful date. I love Danny and I'm grateful for him and all he does for me, especially during these last few months. He's been such a trooper.
Well, that's it from The Cranes. Signing off.

Father's Day

Father's Day is this Sunday. Now usually this day would consist of my dad coming home from all his church meetings to a delicious meal of his choice. We'd all tell him how wonderful he is the rest of the day and that was that. Or somethings like it :) Since I've left home, Father's Day has taken on new meaning. It's a day for me to miss my dad. A lot. I'm so grateful for him and the great influence he has been on me and all that he does for our family. My dad was in school for the first 10 years of my life. That's kind of a long time. I think I would have quit and worked at Wal-Mart. But he worked so hard and the blessings of his choices are still coming. He's such a great example. From him I learned what characteristics I wanted my future spouse to have, what I wanted him to be like. I wanted him to be like my dad- a righteous priesthood holder, a man who loves being with his family, who works hard to support his family, who has a good sense of humor, and a man who puts the Lord first in his life. Luckily, such a man existed :) I'm grateful for my dad in so many ways.

This Father's Day, I also have a father-in-law. I've loved getting to know him and learning more about him. He also works so hard to support his family and is the most gentle dentist I've ever been to. He's a funny man with a good sense of humor. I'm grateful for all he did in raising his son to be the man he is today. Dave loves to read and is always telling us something new he learned. I love that quality. I've loved getting to know Danny's family. They treat me as their own and I love them.

I probably should go on and on about my love, Danny Crane. How wonderful he is and how he'll be a wonderful father. How good he is to me and how much I love him. But I need to save something for our 1 year anniversary post. Haha. Danny is more than I ever hoped I would find in my eternal companion. He is my best friend and my personal comedian. My forever.

Anyway, I love these three men and also the other fathers in my life. Thanks for being the examples that you are. End of super sappy post.

Lately...

Lazy Sunday afternoon = the perfect time to write a little something. The past few weeks have been a major whirlwind. We moved into our new apartment, discovered that we hated it (minus the fact that it has a washer/dryer), and immediately started looking for a new place. We found a major steal that I wish we would have checked into earlier. It's a 2 bedroom beauty. This past week, manager called and told us we could move in a month early. Hallelujah! We sold our contract in a record speed of three hours and now we are set to move in less than 2 months. Yeah for apartment hopping! I find some heavy irony in the fact that as a single lady, I stayed in the same apartment for 3+ years, but as a married lady, we'll have moved 3 times in one year.

More good news! Danny was accepted to the next seminary teaching class. We were so happy to find this out. It means we're a little bit farther down the path of the future. We're both working all the time and Danny is taking 2 classes right now. After we journey to Disneyland in a less than a week (excited!), he has his finals and then starts all over for summer term. Oh the joys of a full-time student. Anyway, we're excited for all of the fun things coming up and we're trying to really enjoy the moment. But Disneyland can't come fast enough :)

Sunshine and Summertime

I am so excited for this summer. We have so much fun stuff planned. And my summer starts tomorrow! That's what life is like when you're finished with school! We're going to San Jose tomorrow for a wedding. Apparently it's shorts weather. Those are beautiful words to my frozen ears. I cannot imagine wearing shorts. I went and dug our summer clothes out today. They are beautiful. However, now I need to whip out the old razor and shave...

To give you a quick lowdown on the summer plans, after we come home from CA, we have Easters. Danny and I got our Easter buckets (yeah, we're pretty hard core and need buckets, not baskets), and we plan to fill them with fun stuff and hide them. My mom and grandparents are coming the week after that for Women's Conference. I'm way excited about that. We're going to do lots of fun stuff. I'm going to whip out my new "Our Best Bites" cookbook and serve up some culinary masterpieces. Yeah! Our next summer event...wait for it, wait for it... we are going to Disneyland!!! I've only been to Disneyworld, so I am way excited. My family is going out to tour Jaymes' mission and then they are hitting the land of Disney, so of course we are going to meet them out there. Then we're going to Brad Paisley/David Archuleta for the 4th of July! And Laurel and I just got tickets to Taylor Swift in September. The gist of this post if pretty much that Danny spoils me horribly! I love him.

I suppose I should update instead of just saying all these amazing things we're going to do. This past week was my big 2-3. It was a wonderful day... actually week. Danny got me a candle warmer, the OBB cookbook, a CTR ring, some shirts, we went to dinner at Texas Roadhouse, and he just treated my like a queen...well, he always does that. I went with a few friends to get cupcakes (gotta love the Sweet Tooth Fairy). I love birthdays! Danny is trucking along in his school stuff. He loves finals. A lot. But only one more week! We're still waiting to hear if he is moving to the next seminary class. He loves teaching so much and of course he's really good at it.

Anyway, that's all from the Cranes.

We like goals!

Danny and I have been thinking a lot about our goals. We both know what we want long term, but lately it's been more of daily goals. There are areas where we can do better and so we are striving to do that. Goals just bring more of a balance to your day. One of my goals is to read the Book of Mormon before work everyday. I read it everyday, but usually right before we go to bed and that doesn't help me much. I want that spirit the whole day, not just the two minutes after I crawl in bed and drift off. Also, we need to eat better. I mean we don't eat crap, I'll give us that, but just better foods. We went to Sunflower Market on Saturday. That place is inspiring. I mean, I'm definitely not one of those organic freaks, but they just have really cool stuff. Like chips made out of beans that actually taste good. And calimari. Not that that is very cool. But stuff like that.

A lot of these goals have come as a result of us being in limbo. No, not the Inception limbo, thank goodness... but the limbo of waiting. We are waiting on lots of things right now. Waiting until May 1st when we can move into our new apartment, waiting to see about our jobs, about Danny's grants for school, waiting to see what furniture we will need, and stuff like that. I am not a patient person. Ask anyone. I hate to sit around and count down until the day. But that seems to be the game we're playing right now. And I have to live with it. Nothing I can do. It stinks. But lots of things have also been coming together for us and I'm so happy and thankful for that. We were able to find a cheaper apartment with a washer and dryer! We were able to sell our current contract 2 days later to someone we actually know. It is March (don't ask)! Those are exciting things that I'm happy to be done waiting for.

On Saturday we spent the whole day with Laurel and Randall. That was super fun. We went to Dickey's. It's this amazing bbq place. I think we'll be going back real soon. It was delicious! And cheap! The perfect place. Last night it was cold and snowy, so we made Chicken Noodle Soup, the good kind. Danny took the noodles and I did the soupy stuff. It was wonderful and warmed us right up. We had a free redbox so we got Inception because Danny fell asleep the first time we watched it and so of course he didn't get it. Needless to say, he liked it this time.

Oh, we're going to Stadium of Fire. That's all.

It's about that time...

Well, here we are again. Things have been going really good. We're both working a lot. Danny is a busy boy. He studies all the time (when he's not working that is). It's a good thing we have nerf guns to relieve the stress. Our neighbors probably think we fight a lot. Don't fret. We just like to shoot each other :) Danny has started taking seminary teaching classes. We hope that things work out there. He would be an awesome seminary teacher. Anyway, this week he had his first (out of 2) 10 minute teaching experience. He got a 50/50! Hard work (and a lot of stress) pays off!

Hopefully, this will be the first of many posts on here!

Wedded Bliss

We made it! Danny and I have successfully been married for over 2 months. Weird, right? Our apartment looks pretty good and we are finally settled... I think. Danny is going to school and working at the MTC. I work at Deseret Book. Things are good. Real good. Time is going by so fast. Jaymes comes home from his mission on January 11th. We were able to find really cheap tickets to go home for it (which I'm super excited about) so since we aren't going anywhere for Thanksgiving or Christmas, at least we'll be gone somewhere at some point in January. Well, that's the little update from the Cranes. Peace out.