Girls Swimming in Busselton

The Bumpy Staircase

The girls are on holidays in Busselton and one of the best things about the accommodation is the staircase. The girls have always wanted to live in a house with stairs - but we're not sure they would last long like this without hurting themselves.

Do you think Brooke's worried about Dad's driving skills

Courtney's Guitar Recital

Today at school, Courtney and the other students from her guitar glass played for the whole school.

Courtney Gets a Quad Helix

Courtney is going to get braces on her teeth in time. Her dentist says that before she can get the braces he needs to push out to roof of her mouth. Courtney has had a "quadhelix" installed is sprind loaded and over time will make the roof of her mouth wider.

She says it doesn't hurt that much?!?!

Courtney Scout Camp

Picnic Day

Brookes Guitar Recital

This afternoon was Brooke's guitar recital. She did really well and is becoming a very good sight reader of her music.

Courtney's Graduation

Today Courtney graduated from Primary School. It was a really special day for her and the family. CJ was awarded both the Music Award and shared the Principle's Award

Cameron Goes Shopping

Cameron is in town for the week so Dad and the girls went shopping for Christmas presents. We all caught the Cat Bus into the city.

Courtney's Choir Performance

CJ performed at the Perth Concert Hall with the Australian Youth Choir

Maiden Name Game

Maiden NAME GAME
Please don't spoil it for others!
Rules: It's harder than it looks! Hit forward, erase my answers, enter yours and send it on to 10 people, including me. Use the 1st. Letter of your Maiden name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real places, names, things,

nothing made up. Use different answers than the
person in front of you.


1. What is your maiden name Crane

2. An animal Crane

3. A boy's name Cory

4. A girl's name Courtney

5. An occupation Camal rider

6. A colour Crimson

7. Something that can be worn Cap

8. A beverage Coffie

9. A food Carrot

10. Something found in the bathroom Conditioner

11. A place City

12. A reason for being late Clock doesnt work

13. Something you shout Cut

Mac Happy Day

Today the girls and their Scout/Cub groups helped out with Mac Happy Dayby holding a car wash. The group raised over $500.00

Brooke and the Snake

Brooke is certainly not scared of snakes and every chance she gets, she will have a hold.

Repair the DS

Don't Panic Brooke

Dad knows what he's doing - I think

Gingerbread Men and Cakes!

Something Different?

Today Grandma took Dad and the girls out for lunch and CJ tried something new - the fish burger.

Brooke played it safe, sticking to her usual bowl of wedges.

The Hangout

CJ and her group from Scouts recently went to The Hangout, an indoor rock climbing place.

CJ is fearless and really enjoys the challenger of getting herself as high as possible.

Circus Pony Ride

Circus Joseph Ashton

Brooke has wanted to go to the circus for years.

One Weekend

 

Allergy Test

Today Brooke went to the doctor to have herself tested for allergies. She has been having allergic reactions to something - possibly chocolate or similar. At this stage the results show she has a reaction to dust mites - but we're waiting on the blood test results. Brooke was very brave and did not seemed too phased by all the pricks on her arm.

In other news - one of CJ's Minties caught up on one of her loose teeth... she can't have too many baby teeth left.

The Last Assembly

Today was the last assembly Courtney's class will hold at Primary School. They played a sketch in which CJ was Grant Denyer hosting an television show like Australia's got talent. She looked pretty cool in her suit and bow tie.

The Cake

Today Brooke's friend Candice came for a sleep over - the girls decorated a cake. It was lovely.

The New Chloe

CJ was reliving her childhood and recalled the day she pegged lots of pegs onto Chloe.This time, she took to her sister.

I pegged brooke just like in the photo when I was little

New Hair Cut

Hay,
I haven't been posting things lately so here goes nothing...

I have a new hair cut. (see photo) and last week the o'brians, dad, Brooke, dads new girl friend and I went to darklight and the girls and o'brians went to see kufu panda 2! Last night I went to see harry potter part 2 of 7 and even if I haddent seen the others it was still a cool movie. Today The girls went to see cars. Thanks Antie K. The girls had a lovely time in Busso with nana and grandad and will give there friends there presets soon.
Love CJ xoxo

My Hippy Costum

I went to Scouts on the 60s 70s disco night. I dressed as a hippy so were 7 other people... I got my whole Costum from salvos! :D

Fishing

Brooke and Dad went fishing today and Brooke managed to pull in one of the creatures from the deep.

Happy Birthday

A big happy Birthday to Uncle Peter on the 16th this week.
From the girls:)

Sent from my iPod

So very busy

Courtney's social life has really taken off!

Last weekend she spent all weekend on a Young Women's Weekend with her friend. She camped all weekend and had a great time - except for the early morning starts. She was exhausted and had to have a recovery day during the week. This weekend she has had back to back sleep overs at Emily's house. It's like we never see her anymore.

Brooke on the other hand was running around the house in her PJs at 5:00pm this evening - seems she has had a very lazy winters day.

Challenge Complete

The big sundae

Grandma is all better and we went out for lunch today. The girls finally got to sample the giant sundae they'd heard so much about.

CJ sings again

Today Courtney and the school choir sang at the ceremony for a group of people becoming Australian Citizens

Australian Youth Choir

Tonight Courtney will perform with the Australian Youth Choir. She is pretty excited about having the whole choir together in the one place.

Brooke becomes a Seconder at Clubs

A new school

This week Brooke moved school for a number of different reasons. Unfortunately she missed Monday and Tuesday because she had tonsillitis. So Wednesay was her first day – she is over the moon with her new beginning, all the new experiences. Dad is not a fan of the new uniform (picture coming) but he’ll get used to it soon.

 

So now CJ has her school all to herself. She is in charge of ringing the bell this term. Appears that clocks are starting to run her life as she has recently taken to setting her Ipod alarm for 5:30am so she can wake up and be all ready for school – with a couple of hours to spare.

Lunch in the Park

The Royal Wedding

Today Prince William married Kate Middleton.

The girls spent the evening with Dad, Grandma and Pa watching the wedding and eating pizza

CJ's Birthday Cake

Courtney turns 12

Well as you can all see, CJ has turned twelve years old. One very awesome bur spoilt young lady received an IPod Touch - who knew they could do such cool things! CJ and Dad have already started video chatting!

Tonight we went to Chinese after watching Courtney's choir rehearsal.

The girls are now on school holidays, so we can all look forward to daily updates including photos from the IPod.

YAY and a new segment

YAY It's my birthday and I'm turning 12. I have been looking at all the crane girls entrees from 2004 and we used to write one nearly everyday!

So now that I'm "the big one two," I will try to write AMAP. (as much as possible.) Also, Brooke asked me what an education was a week ago

I got very upset with her but that's went I decided to make a new segment on the Crane Girls: Rules Of Life.

Courtney(12) 

Whats up:

On Sunday, Dad, Mum, Brooke and I went to Hillary's Boat Harbor for 'Mum's Birthday Lunch.'

We had very good milkshakes but mum is a little bit worried because Brooke seems to be allergic to

something... But she is ok. Oh, and not to mechen, MY BIRTHDAY IS ON THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!!!!!

Have a great last week of school.

.Courtney.

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~_~ (sleeping bunny.)   

                                      

Happy Birthday Brooke

Today Brooke turns 9 years old.

She has been shopping with Auntie Kirstie and Nana and received a lot of wonderful presents - spoilt as always.

Tonight she is having a sleep over with a few friends.

Nana took Brooke shopping for a present and she bought two necklaces with one half of a heart charm on each chains. Brooke gave the other have of the "best friends forever" charm to her sister.

Historical Event

An 9.0 magnitude earthquake near Sendai, Japan triggers a 10 meter high tsunami. Together they kill thousands of people. The Fukushima nuclear power plant is severely damaged causing leaks of radiation.

Adventure World

The girls were lucky enough to have a day off school and got to go to Adventure World with Mum and Dad. Not surprisingly, the girls had a great day full of slides and rides.

WOOOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!! I did it!!!

HAY EVERYONE,

Here to say that I have be put in the role of STUDENT COUNCILLOR !!!!!!! YAY!!!!!! "no way!!" you say, well "yes way" I say wooooooooohooo!!!

STUDENT COUNCILLOR, COURTNEY

From: Robyn and Bill Crane

Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 9:07 AM

To: Courtney

Subject: Yahoo!! you did it.

Darling Courtney, Dad told me last night that you had been elected as a Student Councillor. What a wonderful achievement!! You must be so proud and I know what a lot of effort you put into your application. It is amazing what can happen if you try hard enough and put every effort into achieving that aim. I told you that this year would be very special so have fun and make many special memories. I know the importance of being willing to accept these special challenges and the wonderful opportunities they can create as you go through life. I am so proud of you. Lots of special love Grandma.

Checkers at the Dome

The girls bought Dad a multi game set for Fathers Day last year. Today we went down the Dome Cafe and played checkers and cards over a milk shake.

Kalbarri

The Great Escape

Tonight we went to the Great Escape for another afternoon of water slides, mini golf and lots of different rides. Again, Dad forgot that Brooke will not eat hot dogs with tomato sauce... so he had to eat two.

Fashion Twins

Donnybrook

Over the weekend Dad and the girls went down to Donnybrook. We caught up with the Hutchy and Pembo families and went to the Cider Factory.