Park City Getaway!

So in case anybody was wondering, David and I are going to have a baby soon.  I mean SOON!  Like she's due in 3 weeks soon.  So as we looked into our future and saw sleepless nights, dirty diapers, and endless feedings we did the only thing we could think of... we ran out of town to enjoy one more special weekend together as just "David and Heather" before our lives change forever!  Don't get me wrong, we are so, so, SO excited to bring this little darling home.  But while we can still enjoy our time alone we thought we'd live it up.  I'm so glad I married such a wonderful guy and I wanted him all to myself this weekend!  We had a fantastic time and we even came away way under budget! Bonus!

So, we went to Park City.  I got off work early on Friday, we packed our bags and headed for the mountains.  We checked into our hotel and that night we went out for dinner at Squatters.  Turns out, just about every menu item at Squatters is made with beer which made ordering rather difficult.  BBQ chicken pizza sounds safe right? Well the pizza crust had ale in it, and the BBQ sauce was made with beer.  Ok, how about a burger? Well the bun was made with beer as well.  I'm down with the idea that 'it all cooks out' but I figured that in my present 'condition' I'd just play it safe.  So I ended up with what I thought would be like a Cafe Rio salad.  All I can say is, Cafe Rio, don't be worried about Squatters stealing your customers. After dinner we walked around Main Street that night.

This cute bookstore had a real life cat!

David is a fan of tickling...he wanted to get this for our little girl.  I had to convince him that it was a terrifying book.

I was set on going to a bakery, so the next morning we went to the Java Cow and had crepes for brunch.  David and I love crepes!  They are so yummy!

After breakfast we went to check out the Kimball Arts Center.

Next on the agenda was the Olympic park.  We watched some youth athletes practice freestyle skiing.  They go down these slopes and land in a big pool of water.  It was fun to watch.  They also have a museum that was fun to check out.  They had lots of memorabilia from the Salt Lake City Olympics.

37 Weeks : )

After the Olympic Park we hit up the outlet stores.  David got some new clothes, and decided to save my money for when I can fit into regular clothes again. :)  When you're 37 weeks pregnant it is not the time to go clothes shopping.

One of the most fun things about this weekend was being able to try so many new places to eat.  For dinner we ended up at Cafe Trang.  We were a bit weary as we went in.  We were the only ones there!  Not usually a good sign.  I really wanted to get something good to make up for my Squatter's menu choice from the night before.  I also wanted to try something new.  We got some pot stickers to start off with and then I ended up with the Massumon (sp?) Curry and it was SO good!  So Cafe Trang turned out to be a winner.  David got some BBQ Pork with Snap Peas.  We were both pleased with our orders and there is a Cafe Trang right here in SLC, so we'll probably be back!

Is it just me, or do fortune cookies get more and more random these days?  We thought ours were pretty strange.  I think the first one means "beware of old people."

After dinner we went back to the Java Cow to get what I had been waiting for!  A giant ice cream cone!  They were so yummy.  I woke up craving the brownie explosion ice cream this morning!  I also found a cute little teddy bear there that I wanted to get for our baby girl that was really cute.  As soon as had our ice cream and bought the bear, we were ready to head home.

Sooo yummy!  We'll be going back here someday for sure!

Before you become amazed that I was able to hoist myself up there in my condition, notice the chair. : )  Also notice the pipes above,  that cafe was ca-ute!

It was a great weekend. I loved spending time with David.  We had so much fun together.  I'm so glad we've had these two years to be a couple.

Just me and my sweetie!  Love you forever!

We're ready to bring our daughter home, and I'm sure it will be difficult to adjust to a new, crazy lifestyle of parenthood, but I also know that I've got a great partner at my side.  We make a great team and I'm excited for what the future holds.  So let the countdown begin!!  Let's get this little girl in our arms!

Creek Family Reunion 2012

Creek...Family...Reunion.  Those three words all together just get me so excited!  I love my family, so having a few days of all of us together is one of the best things I can think of.  There are seven Creek children, and they take turns planning the reunions.  This year it fell to the youngest, my Aunt Cecile and the Shumway clan to put on the show and they did not disappoint.  Here a few, or maybe a lot, of pictures of the fun we had!

The famous coloring contest.  This is a big deal in our family.  Our very own Uncle Chris Creek did the judging.  We have different age groups, lots of prizes and even some cash!  Dannon won this year in the adult division, with AJ second and Caleb third.  It was lots of fun!

Alyssa and Anya after going down the slip 'n slide.  I think that everyone had a great time doing this.  It was hard for me to sit out and spectate.  I just wasn't sure that slip 'n slides and pregnant ladies go well together, especially ones that are this intense!

David managed to surf down the slide.  I think he did it  twice.  What can I say, I married a talented guy!

And of course there was a spoons tournament. 

A Creek reunion wouldn't be the same without it.  The cards even had pictures of all the Creek family members!  Very cool!

This was my group, unfortunately I was the first one to go!  After several tournament rounds, Dannon was the winner of the tournament this year. 

And now for the talent show.  Caitlin did a tap dance routine.  I was so glad she did it.  It looked like fun and she did great!

These little girlies were super cute.  They got up on stage and shook their little hips for everyone!

And Triton...well, let's just say that he may end up in the Olympics someday, this kid has some awesome tumbling skills!

This skit was fun, not the best picture since I cut off Britney and Brian's heads.  But they sang the "There was an Old Lady" song and it was brilliant.

We made our famous giant ice cream sundae,  it was dee-lish! 

and enjoyed by all! :)

Family reunions remind me that this life and the Gospel of Christ are all about families and the love and relationships that we share.  I'm so blessed to be part of such a great family.  Each person has so many talents and each is trying to live the best life they can.  I look up to so many of them, and to the younger ones I hope to be an example of what it means to be a Creek!  Seeing my family together, makes me so excited for the family that I've created with David.  He and I have had a great two years of marriage so far, and we are so looking forward to bringing a daughter home soon!  I think of my grandparents, Dennis and Elna, getting married so many years ago and now to know that there are nearly 100 people in the Creek family is amazing.  I just wonder what the future will be like for David and me and our family.  I hope we can follow in the footsteps of the great families that we come from and teach our children the way our parents taught us.

It was a great reunion and I can't wait for 2015!

Independence Day

The Fourth of July came right before our family reunion this year.  My family was coming for the reunion but somehow they managed to get some more time off so they were here in time to celebrate the Fourth as well.  We had a fun day. Mom, Dad, Hunter and Alyssa spent the night at our place and then we woke up on the Fourth and went down to Provo.  Caitlin and Isaac provided a great pancake breakfast and then we watched the parade.  We spent the rest of the day hanging out in Provo.  We went to the carnival, had subway for lunch, and even went to the pool for a while.


I also made the same yummy cake that I made last year for the Fourth.  I LOVE that cake! Even though we had so many people around, I still think I managed to eat about half of it myself.  That will definitely be a Fourth of July tradition for the Fairall family!! :)

I should mention that someone very important was missing from all these festivities...David.  He had to work at one of RSL's soccer matches that day.  Luckily, he was able to get a ticket for me to come and watch the game.  So I watched while he worked and then we were able to meet up afterward to watch the post-game fireworks together.  It was great to be able to still spend some time with him that day!

I love holidays, it's so great to spend time with family and create such good memories.  I feel blessed that I got to see all my family that day!  I'm also grateful for the meaning behind Independence Day.  For FHE the Monday before the Fourth, we read the Declaration of Independence.  It was a great reminder of why our country was set up, and the things that we stand for.  I'm blessed to live in such a great county where we enjoy many freedoms that others will never know.

The List

I have a list of things a mile long that I would like to have done before this baby comes.  But recently, the list is not my priority, I just want to hold my little girl and love on her all day long.  All the things on my list can wait, I just wish that August would get here soon!  Unfortunately I still have 6.5 weeks left so I'll just have to be patient because I want this little girl to grow as much as she can and be as healthy as possible.  So since I've got the time...I'll have to pull out that darn list and get to work!

Celebrating Baby

Saturday was my baby shower.  A big thanks is in order for my sister Caitlin.  She did an amazing job planning and organizing the shower.  She spent a ton of time making decorations, planning games and food, and setting everything up.  I love her and I'm so grateful to have such an amazing and talented sister to help out with fun things like this!  The shower went wonderfully and it was so great to spend time with friends and family as we celebrated the little girl who will be coming to our family soon (only 8 weeks left!).  When I first started thinking about what I wanted to do for my baby shower, the biggest thing on my mind was that, no matter what, I wanted my Mom to be there.  Here is what I wrote in a journal I've been keeping about this pregnancy,

"I really, really, really want my mom to be there!  I can’t imagine having that party without her!  So that’s kind of priority number 1.  I need to work with my dad to see if we can do it as a surprise somehow.  I think she would love it.  I don’t want her to miss this, so I need to do all I can to get her out here!  She my mom!  I want her to be a part of my journey to becoming a mom."  

So, from the beginning I was really hoping that she could come out for the shower.  After we talked about it quite a bit it became apparent that it would be really tough for her to get off work and to get a reasonably priced ticket.  Especially when we have a family reunion coming up, and she'll definitely be out here once the baby is born, and then my dad wants to be here for the baby blessing.  It's just a lot of travel, a lot of tickets, and too much money!  So I settled for Skyping with my mom during the shower.  It was not ideal but I thought that even if she couldn't be out here she could at least still be a part of it in some way! 

So I showed up at my grandma's house for the shower on Saturday morning and Caitlin was showing me around and letting me see all the cool decorations that she had set up.  While I was busy looking at something, I got a big hug from behind. When I turned around, I was blown away to see my mom there, it was the biggest and greatest surprise that I could have ever asked for!  It was perfect.  Just the night before I had been telling David that I really wished we could have found a way to get her out for this and that I was going to miss her, there may have been a few tears.  David, of course, knew that I was in for a big surprise, but he is very good at keeping secrets.  

It made my day that my mom could be there for that special day.  I have a wonderful mom, she has taught me so much and been a great example to me.  We live far away now, but I always want her to be a part of my life.  It was a great blessing to have her with me this weekend, and it meant so much to me that she would do that!  What a great mom I have!  

Here is my Momma!  Can you tell I love her?

I don't know if anyone stopped to read this little poem, but this was kind of my theme for the shower.  It's called, "When I grow up I want to Be a Mother."  This is a song my mom taught me when I was younger about how fun it is to be a mom.  You get to tell your kids stories, cuddle them when things go wrong, feed them cookies and milk and give them yellow balloons.  I've always loved that song so for the shower we had cookies and milk (that accidentally never got served - oh well!), and yellow balloons.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some of the cute decorations that Caitlin set up.  That long dress was my baby blessing dress, we might end up using it for our little girl as well.  

Of course, Grandma Creek made a quilt for the little bug!  It is super cute and I love the colors!

Me with my lovely sister!  Thanks Caitlin for all you did to make this a beautiful and special day!  You are amazing!

Thanks to everyone who came!  This was a great day for me and being with all of you is what made it so special.  I can't wait to let our little girl know how much she is loved by us and by all of you!  Thanks for your presence and your generous gifts!  We love and appreciate you all! 

28 Weeks

Mother's Day..For Me? I guess so!

So I've gotten a flower or treat or whatever they hand out to the ladies at church on Mother's Day.  But this time around it was for real!! I cried during the songs that the primary children sang like my own little girl was up there screaming the words with the rest of those crazy kids.  It was adorable and touching.  My sweet husband took care of me too!  He sent me flowers at my office, cleaned the whole house, and made me dinner on Sunday. 

This box arrived at my office.

They came like this.

Then blossomed into this beautiful bouquet of lilies!

Beautiful!  Thanks David! xoxo