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Blessing Baby Kyle

October 19, 2010

Baby Kyle born July 9, 2010 (named after my husband)

Blessed October 10, 2010

Ben gave little Kyle a beautiful blessing. He blessed Kyle with health and happiness, a love of learning and a quick mind, a deep faith and a desire to learn and follow true principles. He said that Kyle would have love and charity for the people around him and he would be a light to them as well. He also blessed Kyle to be an example to his sister and his parents. And lastly Ben told Kyle that he was born into a family that loved him very much and that Heavenly Father knew and loved him as well.

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Crane Girls with Papa Crane

October 19, 2010

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My Crane Boys

October 19, 2010

Brogan’s wedding

Stoker Reunion

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My Son Sang in a Church Choir

October 19, 2010

Last Sunday my son invited me to go to his new sister-in-law’s return home missionary speech. He didn’t mention that he would be singing in the choir so I was pleasingly surprised when I saw him get up with his new bride, who is a trained opera singer and an excellent pianist, to sing in the choir. I absolutely love the things my daughter-in-laws get my sons to do that I would have never been successful talking them into. I like marriage for my boys and I am enjoying watching them please their wives!!!

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Toyota Prius

October 19, 2010

A bit ago we bought a Toyota Prius and we are very impressed with the gas mileage we are getting. We can drive 600 miles on one tank of gas so we are spending about $25 to $30 a month on gas unless we take a trip out of town. Amazing! When we were driving a Buick Park Avenue, we spent $160 to $200 and more when we went to Idaho.

To be fair though, our son who is in fireman school said it can be dangerous getting people out of wrecked hybrid cars because of the electrical currents running through their systems.

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Three College Graduates

May 20, 2010

Three college graduates from the Crane home…..three more to go (halfway there)! Alixandria graduated from Utah State in health education. Congratualtions!!

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Painted Borders

January 29, 2010

 

My daughter and I recently painted our family room.  I was pleased with the end result especially with the brown and red 4″ border.   We learned the importance of carefully taping the areas that we didn’t want painted and then  we used a product I hadn’t heard of before called siliconzied acrylic latex caulk to seal the edges of [...]

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