I'm Ba-aaack!

And I have so much to post!

First things first. On Saturday we attempted a family outing to the movies. Now for those of you who don't know, this weekend was the opening weekend for Pixar's latest project, Cars. So, in a spur of the moment decision, we decided to go right after lunch to try and make the 12:20 showing. Already we realized we were probably pushing it because Grace's naptime is right at that time. By the time we got there, we were too late and had to get tickets for the 12:50 showing, so 20 minutes and 20 dollars in snack food later, the four of us were sitting in the theater waiting for the movie to start. I had even brought along the camera to document this momentous occasion, seeing as to how Grace has never been to a movie in a movie theater, and the last time Ethan was in one is was for Seabiscuit when he was 3 weeks old. I wish we would have taken a picture before the movie started because the kids looked so cute sitting on their little booster seats with their popcorn snack trays in their laps and I knew deep down inside that there was no way we were going to make it through a 2 hour movie!

So, to sum it up, Grace was hilarious throughout the previews. As she was munching on her snacks, she managed to interject such exclamations of excitement as "Whoa!" and "Wooooo!" and "Yay!" (accompanied by hand clapping). However, by the time the 20 or 30 minutes of previews were over, the snacks were gone and Grace was ready to get up and play. So, I walked the aisles with her for about 15 minutes or so before Ethan and Scott joined us, because Ethan was so distracted by us leaving. Luckily we got our money back for the movie, and at least it was still a fun (kind of) experience. From what I saw of the movie, though, it looked pretty entertaining.

Whew! Okay, done with that commentary, on to the next! Oh and the above pictures were taken before we left for the movie on Saturday. Ethan found their hats in the living room and wanted to put them on along with one of my hairbands. Then he wanted to take pictures. He actually took the one of Grace.

Okay, so Saturday I finally decided I just had to bite the bullet and get the quilt frame set up. Wow, what a project. I've decided I should never start potentially frustrating projects after 10 o'clock at night because its really not fair to Scott. He usually bears the brunt of it and then I feel really guilty on top of being really frustrated. As you can see from the picture, this quilt is BIG and our apartment -- not so big. The quilt frame basically takes up our whole living room. The kids kind of think its fun. Kind of like a big tent to crawl under over and over each day. Hope they get used to it, 'cause it looks like this baby's gonna take me at least two weeks to finish the quilting! Yeah, this is a pretty big project. Luckily I'll be able to work on it every night this week for a few hours at a time seeing as to how this is crunch time for Scott. He has to finish up his two classes by the end of next week, so he's been at the library studying and doing assignments every night. Do you ever wish you could just fast forward a couple of weeks?

And now for my final update (sorry this is so long!)...

Those of you who keep up with the tabloids will have seen by now the pictures of little baby Shiloh Jolie-Pitt who supposedly has her famous mother's lips. Well, here in the Creer household we've got our own little baby Jolie-Pitt. I tried to get a picture of it (above), but you can't really make it out in the photo. Poor little Grace fell down the concrete steps outside our apartment yesterday and busted her top lip. It swelled up right away, and bled quite a bit, but our little firecracker was up and ready to play again within a few minutes. This morning, however, her upper lip is still swolen and the result is a ridiculously huge mouth for the time being. (Grace accident count -- 1).

I'm beginning to wonder if we'll have to take out a separate insurance policy for our little girl these days because she's so active (read out-of-control). This morning, we woke up to go get the kids out of bed and found the following picture(s) ready for the taking:


Yes, Grace can now climb out of the crib over the foot rail and onto the dresser. Apparently Ethan thought it was a good idea too. Oh and did I mention that Grace can also climb out of her pack 'n play? Yeah, well she can, and today during naptime she managed to somehow knock the full length mirror off the wall in my room thus hurting and scaring herself in the process (Grace accident count -- 2). This afternoon, Grace got clobbered by Ethan (and then the sidewalk) in a scuffle over the cell phone while we were outside playing (Grace accident count -- 3) and as we were coming inside, she managed to smash her big toe in the door as she was closing it (Grace accident count -- 4). The paparazzi might have more on me than Brittney Spears! Where's a manny when you need one? You may be wondering, curiously, why there are no tales of Ethan today. I have to say, my number one son has been awfully good and helpful the past few days. We drew a hopscotch on the sidewalk outside with chalk the other day, and it has become one of his favorite new things to do. And with a quilt taking up practically our whole apartment these days, we've been spending an awful lot of time outside. I think it agrees with him.

Okay, so I'm sure you're past the point of bored by now, so I won't even start on a My Life Monday...

I almost forgot the best thing of all! I ran into one of my best friends in the whole world from college randomly at the University Mall on Thursday afternoon (wow, if that isn't a run-on sentence I don't know what is). Me and Ethan and Grace were meandering through Deseret Book on our way into the mall when who should we see but Ms. Heidi Simpson and her mom. Talk about good times. The best part of all was that my kids didn't even destroy the whole place (that much) while I was chatting it up. Of course it helped that I had some loose jelly beans that I found in my purse to bribe them with... Needless to say it was so much fun to see such a good friend (and her cute little sleeping boy). I was just sad I didn't have my camera with me to take a picture for the blog.

Until next time.