SPAZ

So our cat, Spaz, had kittens this morning some time. She had them in the stupidest spot in the garage and conveniently suffocated two. I am allergic, deathly allergic to cats, so this is a good thing. The remaining at least three maybe four, will be absolutely loved to death by my girls. Aly was already at school, I was at work, and Ashley was at Maxine's when Will called me and told me heard them in the garage. I had to run home and grab some stuff for my boss, so I grabbed Ashley and took her over to be the nursemaid. She wasn't sure what to do, but didn't mind watching. Hopefully the remaining ones will be alive this afternoon and we can get some pictures!!

ODdS aNd enDS

So quick update... I am really glad I survived this week at work... Why I stress myself out, I don't know. I really like my job, so I shouldn't do that. It's the whole OCD, perfectionist thing. [Note to self: WORK ON THAT!]. The wind is blowing like crazy today, it is really cold. The guys are out working calves and I think it might rain (ha!). I might as well take a stab at predicting the weather, why not, the weather people get paid to do it and they can't forecast either!

I have to work a little bit today at Sorensons and then go to a baptism tonight. Can I just say how excited I am that Katie's husband, Don, is getting baptized! Congrats! I have two assignments due tomorrow for school and then this class is over! That's reeeaaalllyyy exciting. For me. Monday starts a new class for the next five weeks then I am off for a week and that week marks the half way point for completing my Masters program!!! (Then maybe a degree for teaching? Don't tell Will! Kidding, CPA then I am done!)

Ashley had her dance recital last night...Hum? Do the tights go on the outside of the leotard or under them? If you are dressed correctly, and then have to go to the restroom, do you have to undress yourself to do so? I mean GET NAKED! After getting naked, should you redress your self the same way you took the clothes off? I mean if the leotard is the first off, shouldn't it me the first on? Ask Ashley. She has ALL the answers. Especially to my questions as I am dying from embarrassment. No pictures, too busy trying to dress her correctly...again!

Alysen got a new horse. If you want to throw Aly into tears, tell her you bought her a horse, thats what we did. Trying to ruin her life, absolutely! Aly has not recovered at all from breaking her arm last summer after being ripped off the horse. I had the opporitunity to buy a horse (thanks Layne for the tip!) and coudn't pass it up. Aly is great on horses. She is a little natural and LOVED it, until last summer. I work with a lot of therapists, so maybe this week I will be asking for advice. Her dad is really pushy with her on this subject and in my opinion, making it worse. She won't even get on a horse unless I am there. Yes me, the idiot that put her in the position to break her arm in the first place! She honestly believes we are trying to ruin her life. What are parents for?

Ainsley has been spending a lot of time in time-out lately. Her attitude is improving. This whole discipline (or lack of in her case) is really trying me. I hate putting there, but had we done this sooner, we wouldn't be here now. Should of had a baby last year to help this situation, was selfish and wouldn't do it. It would help if I wasn't a one man army. The kid gets spoiled everywhere she goes, especially with Grandmas and Daddy. We'll see where she goes. I do have a cute pic of her falling a sleep in timeout, I think she was faking...

That is a little insight into our week. It is possible that pictures of the dance recital will follow, the ones of her dressed correctly.

Lambs or Dogs?

The lambs follow the kids around the yard, just like dogs. The kids think it is great. Today they left them out of the pen. The lambs found shade under the chairs on the porch. I had to remind them to put them away, so they could get out of the sun. Yep, just like dogs.

Ashley letting the lamb suck on her finger-yuck! But, the kids love it. They like being outside and helping their dad with the lambs, especially the dogie (spelling?) ones.

When you have over 800, what is 1? Ashley and Ainsley thought the lamb would enjoy jumping on the trampoline. Alysen was in the background screaming, "You can't do that, sheep don't jump on trampolines, you're going to kill it. Do you want to kill it?" After the picture I agreed with Aly, sheep don't jump on trampolines...(notice the hind legs...)

Today was absolutely beautiful. The weather was great and the kids loved spending the day outside!

2 down...5 to go

So after taking forever to clean my kitchen, I decided to only offer the privilege of spring cleaning to the upstairs of my home:(. As Will puts it, only clean where people see. Well I am doing a few more rooms and areas than that, but the basement can wait. With homework and chasing kids I thought I would be farther a long than I am right now and trust me it has taken many late nights to get to here. I have until the end of April to see what I can accomplish and then it is on to weekend craziness.

I have made a goal to spend a lot of time taking the kids out to do things this summer. We are going to experience everything we can! The first weekend we are docking lambs, not a part of my plan, but a part of Will's. The second weekend I was going to take off to St. George alone! But, I think that I will find warmth in Capitol Reef, hiking with the girls. I need a trip to Provo/Orem, so that will be happening probably on a Friday. The girls need a few things and I need to hit Costco. This summer is filled with fun trips and a lot of day trips to areas near by. So if anyone has any fun places to visit within a couple hours of here, let me know!

Alysen is counting down the school days. I think that on Friday she said there were 29. She is in a bad habit of playing jokes on her grandparents. I don't know where she gets it from...She gets with Ashley and they conspire.

Ashley is preparing for a dance recital this week. I can't wait until dance is over! I love dance, she loves dance, I hate remembering to pick her up. I forget, a lot! If it wasn't for Rayne, she would get left a lot. I usually get home between 4:30-5:00 on Wednesdays, drive right by dance, get home and Aly reminds me about Ash. Back up the highway...

Ainsley...is spoiled rotten. If you ask her or tell her to do anything...well lets just say she spends a lot of time in time out. I hope it soon gets better...

Will is about done lambing! YEAH! I can't wait until them little woolly bastards are headed down the road to the mountain. This year has been the worst lambing experience ever, I think last year was the best. He is so angry and ornery all the time. I am so excited that he goes back to work tomorrow! I think he is having withdraws from Cory, Travis, and Cody. Maybe its the fact he has spent the last three weeks in our yard, in this miserable weather, staring at dead sheep everywhere! The weather hasn't been gentle on him at all.

Last night he came in, get ready, we're going to dinner. That would be great for most women, not for me. I had spent all day scrubbing in the kitchen and then a couple of hours chasing the sheep over to the field. Lambs are a pain in the ass! I am not sure what which was worst: The lambs that wouldn't follow, the ewes that wouldn't wait, the sheep herder that only wanted to heard everything that would go (basically from the middle of the herd, screw the lambs and sheep behind him that wouldn't go because of him), Ainsley...(need i say more), etc. You get the picture, it was great! I was totally pulling for a quiet dinner at home so that I could recover the cleaning hours that I lost herding sheep, didn't happen. Oh well, we took the girls and they had fun.

The girlies and I are loving the house being clean and I am loving my new blinds. If you have ever thought about visiting my house, do so now! It is looking great!

1 Down...12 to Go

So tonight I came home and got knee deep in Spring cleaning. I finished the front room in my house. It isn't a very big room, but it took me about 2 hours. The only thing I have left are to buy and hang blinds (which I will do tomorrow) and fill in the holes from the old blinds. My hubby was a little irritated that I was ripping the house a part, but it smells so good right now that it is worth irritating him over! The rest of the week will be slow with cleaning due to gymnastics, homework, and both of my jobs, but I plan to hit it hot and heavy over the weekend. Does everyone already have their spring cleaning done? Am I the last one on earth doing this?

Easter Pictures!

Ashley and Alysen hunting for Easter eggs. Aly fills her basket every year. They truely love Easter with the Cranes!

Ainsley hunting for Easter Eggs!

Ashley, Ainsley, and Alysen coloring Easter Eggs... I did this with them on Wednesday night. There was no way in heck that I was coloring them while we were camping.

I forgot to mention that while camping the girlies spent a lot of time riding their bikes, hiking, and fixing a hut that we built as kids. It had fallen down and they put it back together.

TODAY:

We just got back from rolling Easter eggs with Brett, Meech, their kids and Cody, Lacy, their kids, Josh and Cas, Tom and Maxine. Will stayed to lamb sheep. It is fun to roll eggs when it ends in an egg fight! My kids and I didn't get into it this year, but Josh is hilarious when he is picking on the kids.

Aly is still bummed that she didn't get to have an egg fight with Uncle Mace, but she saved some of her eggs until she sees him! (chances are they will mysteriously find there way into the trash can before that happens!)

Easter

I returned last night from an AMAZING Easter weekend! We went camping at the family ranch and even with the crazy weather I was in heaven. I love Easter because my family gets together every year for a camping trip. The kids run wild, 4-wheelers are everywhere...

We have a massive Easter egg hunt for the kids and they love it and the adults love to watch it.

We eat great food and everyone gets creative. It is fun to see what everyone comes up with.

I got to ride Mace's, way to nice, mountain bike and now I need one. Mine can be handed down to April, it will help build her leg muscles.

The weather...I could have done without, but it wasn't that terrible. It sprinkled a few times, night time was rainy, and then the hail storm that made us leave in 2 seconds flat was freaky. We were all hanging out around camp, Matt and Mike had just left with their families, and boom! Good bye blue skies, hello big chunks of hail. I was leaving Sunday morning, but what the heck, can't leave if you can't get your car out right?

I got too see my amazingly gorgeous nephew for the first time! I am obsessed with how beautiful Emmitt is. I should have been better and gone to Heber last week to see him.

I went on a 4-wheeler ride with Mark and Em, Mike and Lisa, and Ains...I LOVE riding 4-wheelers!

We didn't get to roll or Easter eggs or have our annual Easter egg fight, but I guess we can do that today (If I ever get off the computer and get my homework done!)

I hope this summer is filled with many camping trips with the family. There are different reasons that I love camping with each one of my brothers and their families, it seems like when we are all together it is perfect. Every loud, opinionated moment of it!

Mentally Programmed...

I am trying to get my homework finished, a section of my huge marketing final is due tonight at 11:59:59 CST, and all I can think about is SPRING CLEANING! How am I going to get this accomplished?
Option #1: My favorite idea is to higher my sister-in-laws cleaning ladies that come every week to her house for a one time, eight hour, wham-bam, done in a day job. My husband would be raging, but he is zero help, so what should he care.
Option #2: is to take one room every night and tackle it that way.
Option #3: is take some time off from work (which I have done a lot lately, so maybe that isn't an option) and get it done in a couple of days.
Option #4: Just don't do it. This is not an option, I can't live here anymore if it doesn't get done.

Who came up with spring cleaning anyway and why am I programmed to make it a priority?

Here Goes!

I received an invite to facebook today and thought oh my hell, I don't even blog how am I going to keep up a facebook page when I haven't toughed the blog? So here goes...I am getting with my blogging expert sister-in-laws and I am going to get a few things added. We will see where it goes...