A Day in the Life » Pregnant

Rangers Game and More Waiting

Zac — Wed, 11 May 2011 03:06:41 +0000

We are still patiently awaiting the arrival of Baby Brother but have been doing lots of things to try and stay busy and invite him to leave Andrea’s tummy. I am typically a very doting husband, but lately I have been a real jerk, making Andrea do lots of work so she will have this baby.

We have been going on really long walks to help encourage Andrea into labor. So far it hasn’t worked, but we are still walking. One walk was so long I rigged this system to pull Addie’s bike behind me so she could work on her bike riding skills.

Going for long walks

On Monday we went to the Texas Rangers game to see Juli sing the National Anthem. She did a GREAT job, and yes, I made Andrea walk down the 50 ramps to get down from our seats. It was Addie’s first baseball game and she did great (Thank you peanuts).

At the Rangers Game

Today I took some photos of Andrea so we could remember her belly. She is getting really big, but it is all right out front. If you look at her from behind you would have no idea she is pregnant. As always Andrea looks beautiful, but it is obvious she is miserable and ready to have this baby.

Andrea at 9 Months

Keep checking the blog, hopefully we have good news soon. She isn’t due until May 18, but she is dilated and going the right direction so fingers crossed it happens soon.

Any Time Now

Zac — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:20:54 +0000

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.

Nursery Progress

Andrea — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:02:19 +0000

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!)

We Moved In (finally)!

Andrea — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:45:41 +0000

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

Baby Names

Zac — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:24:17 +0000

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!

Minnesota Trip

Andrea — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:47:09 +0000

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!

Pics

Andrea — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:28:52 +0000

Why is our blog so pictureless?? We have a nice camera, and Zac is pretty good at taking pictures, so we should really have more pictures on our blog. To make up for our lack of photoblogging in the past, here are a few things we have done this summer.

I was a bridesmaid at my friend’s wedding at the end of May. It was a very stressful weekend for me, not knowing if at 16 weeks pregnant I would fit into the tight dress I had measured for the summer before, but it all worked out fine.

: Bridesmaid

Zac and I bought a piano! It is a Kawai upright, 44 1/2″, ebony polish. This is what it looks like, and it’s going to look so much better once we get it into our house!

Our new Piano!

Zac took my family to Ham and Eggs, a breakfast place that boasts of hubcab-sized pancakes. So of course my husband orders the big stack of pancakes, thinking we’d all share them…

Ham and Eggs

We tried to share them, but this is as far as we got. We took the rest home, and it still took us 3 days to finish these beastly pancakes.

Ham and Eggs2

Cami came home for the week! Dad is wearing his In N Out “Utah” shirt. He was so incredulous that In N Out would open a restaurant in Utah that he drove all the way down to St George (they were on vacation in Salt Lake/Provo) just to get a T-shirt. Then he wore it and bragged about it all the next week.

Ham and Eggs3

Dad and I at the AMERICAN IDOLS LIVE concert in August! It was actually really fun. Can you see my pregnant belly? Thats 29 weeks.

Concert

By far the most fun part of the concert was Juliana and her two friends, who made signs saying “Future Mrs. Archuleta” and other things. They went crazy when David A. hit the stage. I just had to capture their excitement. Plus I couldn’t really get a great picture of the stage, but the 15 year old girls to my right were plenty of excitement for those around us.

Nerds

They love David Archuleta’s face enough to wear this t-shirt on the second day of school.David Archuleta fans

David Archuleta fans

Zac and I trying to be photographers at the park. 28 week belly.

: 28 weeks

Summer is almost over, but we’ve got a weekend trip to Minnesota planned (right before the Republican National Convention – we didn’t know, I swear). It is going to be busy and crowded, but should be fun. And it’s the last trip I can take before baby comes! 10 more weeks!

Homeownership

Andrea — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:29:42 +0000

I am just starting to realize how big of a deal this home ownership thing is. There is so much to think about! There’s setting up utilities, carpet cleaning, pest controlling, lock changing, moving in, unpacking and organizing, buying new furniture, some repairing (luckily we don’t have much of that), and updating (not much of that either). And I’m sure there’s hundreds of things I haven’t even thought of yet! It is so exciting, but a lot of work. Plus we just started our baby registry, and I pretty much spend all my free time on BabiesRus.com now. They just have so many cute things. Except for I’m realizing there IS such a thing as too much pink. My cute husband was so good to go with me and set up the registry, and he was actually excited about it, which was really fun. By the way, here’s me at 5 1/2 months along…

Another thing that’s on my mind is teaching. I’m starting a private voice studio in my home, which makes it necessary for us to have a piano of some sort. We’ve been doing some major piano shopping lately, and I’ve pretty much narrowed it down (based on our price range). But it’s still such a big purchase, that we are kind of waiting to see if that’s what we really really want. So we just keep going to new stores and trying new things. We went to the Steinway store yesterday, and it was quite an experience. If any of you didn’t know, Steinway pianos are a big deal. They are the only pianos in the world that are handcrafted (so they say), which means that only .001% of the population of the world can afford the $70,000 price tag. Needless to say, we won’t be one of those people. But it was interesting to go and play one just to see the difference. Frankly, I couldn’t tell too much of a difference between the Steinway and the noname brands. But that probably just means I’m not a serious enough pianist. Which I admit I’m not. So I think we’ll go with a lesser known brand that will look and sound good in our home. I’ll post pictures as soon as we decide.

So happy

Andrea — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 23:45:19 +0000

Well, I don’t know if anyone reads this anymore, because I haven’t written in a while, but if you’re interested in the details of what has been going on in our lives for the past few months, I will try to sum it up.

We found out in late February that we are expecting a baby! We have been married just over two years, and are excited for this new stage in our lives. Zac graduated from BYU in April, and we have since moved down to Dallas, TX to start work. He works for Grant Thornton in Advisory Services. Basically he does IT audits and some other stuff. He is at clients almost all the time, and does travel some:( But he will be in Dallas a lot of the time as well. I am working for a property management company until the baby is born, and then I will be starting my voice studio. Actually, I’ll probably start teaching in September, and the baby is due November 5th, so I’ll be working full time and part time for a while! We found out last week that the baby is a girl, and we have already spent quite a bit of time looking at baby girl clothes…we’re just trying to keep ourselves from buying too much of it.

Also, we just bought a house! We move in on August 1st, and it is in Lewisville, TX. Here are some pictures:

There are 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, and a yard! We love it and can’t wait to make it our own.