This is Andrea just 10 days away from the finish line. She looks great and feels good too! The little basketball belly is perfect and we are so excited we can barely stand it.
Andrea at 39 Weeks
The hospital bag is packed with books, massage tools, and a game boy. The car seat is ready to be strapped in and the baby’s clothes and sheets are washed. We will be spending the next few days waiting and trying to get everything ready for our little girl.
P.S. You might want to check here every couple of days because this is the first place we will put baby pictures.
Some projects are so much more involved (and frustrating) than you think they are going to be. In our experience, MOST projects are more involved and take more time than we think. Painting the nursery was no exception. I’ll spare the details, but here’s the basic story. Zac and I found a paint color we loved at Lowe’s, had a sample made, and painted it on a poster board to make sure it was the right shade of green for the baby’s room. I LOVED it. So the next day Zac went back to Lowe’s, bought a gallon of the paint, and with my dad’s help, painted the room. When I saw it, I knew it was not the same color I had picked out, so we decided to go back to Lowe’s and see if they could get us the right color. Well, after 7 cans of paint and a trip to 2 different Lowe’s stores, we FINALLY got the right color paint. It was weird, none of the employees could tell us why the machine made the sample one color and the gallon another. They had no idea. But they finally got us the correct color, we went home and painted it, and here are some pics of the process. We aren’t quite done, but we’re pretty proud of it so far!
Wrong color
Painting the right color!
Crib Assembly
Crib and changing table
Cute border on the wall
Crib (I made this quilt)
Baby's closet (she is so spoiled!)
Wow, this has been such a busy few weeks! First of all, we moved into our house on Saturday, October 4th! It has been a long wait, and we have a lot of work left to do, but I am very happy and excited to finally live in our own house! We are now in the process of unpacking, organizing, and looking for furniture. It seems our “apartment furniture” may not quite cut it. For example, the bookshelf from Target that I was planning on using in my living room looks like dollhouse furniture compared to the size of the room. So…I guess we’re gonna have to upgrade a few things.
I had my baby shower this weekend, and am so excited because I got pretty much everything I need, and lots of other stuff as well. And no one is going to question whether my baby is a girl or boy, because almost all of her clothes are pink! Thank you everyone! Zac and I set up the baby swing and stroller/car seat travel system yesterday. We are going to put the car seat base in the car, but I feel a little silly doing that 3 weeks before the baby is supposed to be born. I guess you can’t ever be too prepared.
We went to our new ward yesterday, and loved it! Everyone was so nice and welcoming, and I think we’ll make lots of friends and be strengthened by the people around us.
Here are some pictures of our activities:
Zac Painting the nursery
Our stroller
Zac and the swing
36 weeks
Well with only 48 days until our baby arrives I thought it would be helpful for us if we got some more ideas for baby names. My brother and sister-in-law had their baby today but hadn’t really talked about names until last night. To avoid a similar situation we are looking for suggestions. If you have any ideas of names that we could use for our little girl please submit a comment so we can see it and add it to our list. I won’t tell you our front runners yet because I don’t want to hinder your creativity. Also in a few weeks we will take some of our favorites and post a poll so you can vote too. Thanks for your help and suggestions!
I’ve decided that pictures are so much more fun to look at than words. So I met Zac in Minnesota this weekend (he was already there for business), and we did some really cool things. The things I didn’t put pictures of were: going to CivicFest, an event in the Minneapolis Convention Center to celebrate America and Minnesota history. It was in conjunction with the Republican National Convention, which is going on in Minneapolis/St. Paul right now! Sorry, we were not part of the protest group that all got arrested. Would have been pretty exciting if we were, but we decided to stay out of that scene. We also went to a University of Minneapolis Gophers football game, where they beat Northern Illinois in the last seconds of the game. It was very exciting. Here are the things we did that we took pictures of:
Minnehaha Falls. This park is south of downtown Minneapolis, and it is beautiful! It centers around these little falls, but the place has been turned into a gorgeous park where families go for walks, picnics, and bike rides.
Walker Art Museum Sculpture Garden in Minneapolis. This is a huge cherry on a spoon. Downtown is just a few miles beyond those trees in the background.
This is Split Rock Lighthouse, just north of Duluth, MN. We took the tour and watched the cheesy video, and we even got to go up in the lighthouse. It was really cool, and really beautiful.
We walked down 170 steps to get to the shoreline of Lake Superior. AND I walked all the way back up without too many rest stops. You try walking up 170 steps while 7 months pregnant.
Zac dipping his toes into the frigid waters of Lake Superior!
Canal Park in Duluth, MN has a museum about the ships that used to come into the port there. This is a replica of the steering room in a ship, and Zac is driving the boat.
Overall, it was a really fun trip, and the weather was so nice!
