I could not stop laughing and Taylor even got going after I was laughing for so long. Doesn't take much to entire the Lambert family!
It took a few passes of me going back and forth to her closet for me to realize that Chris had this little frog hanging out with him. This is one of the many reasons I love this man... he can always make me laugh!
So my dear friend Melinda(or Mel Mel as I like to call her) has a very funny sense of humor when it comes to my pregnancy. This is the card that I received in the mail yesterday from her. She spent some time a local dairy helping clean up after a wind storm and she had taken some pics while there. I love how creative she is with pictures and creating cards! I laughed so hard when I opened it and saw the phrase! So I thought I would share her cute card with everyone else so that you might get a little laugh too!
Okay, so most of my friends and family have already seen this picture but I thought you would rather see this than a picture of my swollen feet. It's more like my very swollen left foot and kinda swollen right foot. I find it very strange that one foot is bigger than the other. This makes wearing shoes quite difficult! As you can tell from the picture, I am getting bigger and bigger everyday. I am now 7 3/4 months(31 weeks) along. We have less than 9 weeks to go and I just know it's going to fly by! I have been doing some stamping, but you'll have to wait until Sunday/Monday to see some of my creations. I promise they are already scanned and ready to go. Well it seems that Miss Taylor really likes to get the hiccups. She got them for the first time at the beginning of February and then didn't have them again for almost a week. Now she has them everyday if not more than once a day. They aren't big hiccups, just funny feeling. It does give me an idea of where she's at. The doctor thought on Monday that she had moved into the down position, but she's back to being sideways according to her hiccups. Unless she can fart on rhythm, her head is on my right side.(Farting on rhythm would be a trait she got from her dad) 
If your name is Desha then stop here and do not proceed forward! The following pictures are not to be viewed by you until Saturday. I will explain it when I see you.
For all others, keep on scrolling because it's finally some of the pictures that you've all been asking for. You've seen the picture from the internet of the bedding, you've seen the Ikea pictures of the furniture. Now.... here is what the room looks like with all those things put together. Keep in mind that we are still working on the room, while doing all the other things required of life. We still have a little ways to go, but at least this way you can see how it's starting to look. I'm still getting used to walking up the stairs and seeing the door open to her room. I got so used to it being closed all the time that it's actually nice to have it open. Now I can't wait until she comes!.jpg)
This is a picture of Taylor's bed with her Under the Sea bedding. I went with a lilac dust ruffle and sheet instead of what came with the set. We are going to use the dust ruffle from the set for the closet curtains. (That's a project still in the works, but check back in a few weeks to see the outcome.) I even put the diaper stacker on the end of the bed to add some more fun sea creature accents. We were planning to put the bed on the purple wall, but the bed stuck out too far when you walked in the door. We are still debating on what to do on the walls, so if you have suggestions I would love to hear them. Some of our best decorating ideas have come from other people!.jpg)
Next we have the dresser on the purple wall. You can see that the wall above it is blank too! I am thinking maybe some of the sea animals from the comforter would look cute here or Taylor's name. I've already started to fill the drawers with diapers, socks, wipes, blankets, and any other little items that we've received already. One of the things that I love most about this dresser is that Ikea sells organizational cubes that fit in the drawers perfectly! They are wonderful for holding Taylor's socks, headbands, and other little items that you never know how to keep organized. I'll have to take a picture for you next time I'm in there with the camera. While you look at this picture, keep in mind that we are going to put a changing pad at one of the dresser so that this can act as our changing table too. I will be spending lots of time here!
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This is what you see if you look down at the floor from the picture above. This rug turned out to be SOOO much cuter than it was online! I just love all the colors and the mix of bright and pastel.
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Look back up at the dresser and then just a little to your left. This is what you will see. Every child needs a bookcase and I thought this one was too cute! Can you believe that Taylor already has items for her shelves? Don't look at the bottom shelf because that's my 'clean off the top of the dresser' shelf. Yes Gary, that is Taylor's airplane bank on the top shelf and Jefe that is Taylor's wooden shoes from Holland next to it! We have a small shelf unit to hang on the wall near the crib, but it's still downstairs. Once we are 100% this is how we.... wait let me rephrase that to once I am 100% sure this is how I want the nursery Chris will hang the shelf. Items like the shoes will go there so that Taylor doesn't attempt to try them on.
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Last picture is of Taylor's closet already. Can you believe that she has 2 more months to go and I've already run out of hangers? I guess that should be expected to make sure that she looks cute all the time. If you were to look more closely at the clothes, you will find not one, but two Texas Tech onesies. She will learn to love Tech from a very early age! Just thought you might get a kick out of the fact that there are still beer signs in the top of her closet. I think Chris is still trying to find a way to tie them in to the nursery theme.
I know I promised pictures of Taylor's room soon, but we had family over for dinner tonight so I didn't get a chance to take pictures of her room. I am also still in the process of putting her crib bedding together and deciding on where I want the furniture. In the meantime you get to see me working on the crib. Keep checking back because I will have nursery pictures up at some point this week if the swelling will go down in my feet and allow me to do something other than sit with them propped up. Thank goodness that I can surf the internet with my feet up!
furniture. I've included pictures as you look around the room so that you can start to get an idea of how Taylor's room is coming together. We painted three walls green and one wall purple. The purple wall is where the baby bed is going. Chris put the crib together tonight, so I hope to have more pictures up this week as all the furniture pieces are put in place. You can see that the closet is full of Taylor's stuff and some of the items that were still 
left in her room when Chris went to paint. Once I can start to put some of her items away our next big project is to put in a closet organization system. The soon-to-be grandmothers both suggested that we make better use of all the space we have in the closet. I have to point out that Chris has also replaced the blinds with nice faux wooden ones. He has been a busy little soon-to-be Daddy! 
get furniture for Taylor's room. My brother and sister-in-law gave us their baby bed, so that was a BIG help and we finished out the rest of the room to match. After looking at several different places, the furniture at Ikea seemed like the best investment and it matched the crib the best. We got a dresser that we can put a changing pad at one end and all the diaper needs on top too. I want all those goodies within reach for fast diaper changes! We also thought this would be a good piece to last a while in her room. I even found little organization cubes and rectangles that
fit inside the drawers to help divide it up. Chris thinks I'm such a dork, but I love organization and the fact that Ikea makes items the specifically fit the drawers! I can just see how much it will help for those little items like socks and hair bows. We also got a shelf to go above the dresser for decor items that we do not want Taylor to get her little hands on. We already have some little shoes that Chris' brother and his girlfriend brought the baby back from Germany to put on the shelf. I ca
n't wait to start decorating. The last piece of furniture that we bought was a bookcase. I hope that since I keep having forgetful moments, that Taylor is gaining my brain cells and will need lots of shelf space for books. If she doesn't, then she can use it for toys. The bookcase has the same top design as the shelf and adds a girly touch to the room.
that we can see if we want 2 or 3 walls green. My mom is coming in town this weekend to help with decorating and planning for the nursery. Plus it's always nice to have my mom around!
to get out of there too! If you were to look around the floor, you would also find one of Sadie's toys. For some reason she likes to leave a toy in there. Wonder if that's a hint that she's okay sharing with the baby?
down and make some cards. I just love how they turned out and already need to make some more so that I have some on hand when we get gifts. My baby showers are coming up in February and I really need to have lots made before then so that I can just write my notes on the inside and mail them out. Who knows how I'll be feeling then if I already get tired and I'm only 6 1/2 months along at this point. Well back to my creation...
had to add my own little touch to the back of the card with a stamp that I found at Amuse when I went to Seattle to visit Melinda. I find it even more appropriate now that I look more like the picture. I always stamp the back of my cards with my 'Wendy's Whims' stamp, but just love the pregnant lady. Hope everyone enjoys my humor in this! Off to bed for me and the little one.
is still adjusting to the idea of pink being everywhere. So after much stress and search we decided to do an 'Under the Sea' theme. I found the bedding at Target and it is too cute! I've included a picture so that you can see how cute it is too. The picture doesn't show, but the top of the quilt has a patch with an octopus and one with starfish. I will take pictures as we start to decorate her room, but for right now it still have a guest bed up, air hockey table in the closet(in pieces) and neon beer signs on the walls. This weekend will be a weekend of taking down signs and moving more stuff out. The crib is in there, just in pieces. I think we are going to paint the walls lavender and light green, but I have to figure that one out too! Stay tuned for my nursery updates. Maybe in between all my theme picking I can find time for my stamps that have been calling my name!
her thumb in this picture. She kept her hands around her face during most of the ultrasound. Well, our little lamb seems to finally have calmed down so I'm gonna go try and go back to sleep. I hope everyone out there has a very Merry Christmas!
feeling when you sit down to make a card and get overwhelmed by all the stamps you have? Well, I did last night and so I ended up with a very simple, but elegant card. I also realized that I really need to work on my scanning/picture taking skills. I scanned this one since it was too late to take a picture and get good lighting. On the inside of the card I stamped 'Birthday Wishes' and used the same swirl from the front underneath it. I've always looked past this paper not knowing what to do with it, but this time I saw it I immediately thought of this swirl stamp. I plan on doing some more stamping tonight, so we'll see if I remember to post tomorrow!
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