Andrews Family

For the first year of Olivia’s life everyone said, "Soak it in. It goes so fast!" But that first year for me seemed to go just right - not too fast and not too slow. I was home with her all the time and she was learning and growing a little everyday. Since her first birthday, [...]

Where has the time gone? Our new baby is already almost 16 weeks along! If I’d written a couple weeks ago, I would’ve told you that I’m barely showing, but after complaining of uncomfortable clothes, I broke down and spent an afternoon at the mall buying a few maternity clothes. With one look in the mirror, there was no [...]

Don’t get too excited as these are just technical updates on the website and not any new information about the baby. It’ll probably be a few more weeks until they’d be able to tell the gender. Tonight I added a countdown timer to the right side of the blog. It’s written in php which generates [...]

My sister recently blogged on a condition that my nephew has been exhibiting recently in her post "It must be genetic". I have to confirm her suspicion that it is genetic and provide a little more information on the condition. It is commonly referred to as "The Knack" and is described in the video clip [...]

That’s drenched with Powerade, not sweat. Rather than run the AT&T Marathon/Half-Marathon this past Sunday, I volunteered at a water stop. It was fun but it wasn’t a picnic either. We had to show up at 5:30 AM to start setting up. We setup tables, set out cups, and started filling them a little less [...]

Tonight we watched an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition that really showed what life is all about. I’ve been a fan of the show for a long time, but tonight’s show really struck a chord. The story featured an Austin family (they live about a mile from us) who have been blessed with six [...]

Texas made national headlines a couple of weeks ago when Governor Rick Perry issued an executive order requiring girls entering the 6th grade to receive the new human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine. (See article here.) HPV is a sexually transmitted disease that is the cause of almost all cervical cancer and this vaccine protects against the [...]

Yes, we are officially a computer system builder now. OK, so we’re not starting a new business, but I did build our family a new computer. We’ve had the previous computer for 4 years now and it only had 512 MB of RAM. It also had Rambus Ram which is really expensive. (Rambus and DDR [...]