Category: Maddie

My brother recently brought me the pictures he took. I posted them HERE.  I had one wall in the baby’s room that I knew I wanted to add something to. These pictures were the perfect addition. I had a bunch of silver frames around the house, so I put in some of the pictures Adam took.

It was hard to get a good picture of them with so you could see all the pictures. But I am so happy with how it turned out.

One thing you may not know about me is that I am a very symmetrical person. I like symmetry. This was a big step for me. The pictures aren’t perfect. I actually started with the one in the middle and worked my way out. But I am happy I still didn’t make them all perfectly spaced or balanced all the way around.

Another thing I like about this arrangement, is after Thumper makes her arrival, Adam wants to take more pictures of her! So I can easily swap out the new pictures and put them in the arrangement. Thankfully, we have a photo printer, so I could change them whenever I felt the need. I could easily hang other things on the wall with the pictures if the right items came along.

Also, I want to note that all the books on the book shelf the pictures are above were given to me as gifts, hand-me-downs or are books I had when I was a kid. So I am so excited to have a full shelf of books for Thumper to read…er, for us to read to her!

So there you have it. I have just ONE more tiny thing I want to get done in there. I’ll try to do that ASAP and take a picture soon! HERE is the gallery of pictures of the baby’s room if you want to see the rest of the pictures.

Have you tackled any photo projects recently? Or done a project that was slightly out of your comfort zone? Please share!

I know I just posted some belly pictures in the maternity pictures I just posted, but I took this picture recently (after my friend Trisha posted one like it) and wanted to share!

I think when I have my next baby, I am going to take more pictures like this. I think it’s fun and I am sure it would be cool to look back and gradually watch your feet disappear in pictures!

Less than a week until my due date!

My wonderful brother, Adam, who does some photography in his spare time (check out his website) came over a couple weeks ago to take some maternity pictures for us. I was a little hesitant to have them done, but I am SO glad that he insisted and came over and did them. They didn’t take too long and they turned out GREAT!

You can see all of them HERE, but I will post some of my favorites below!

Thank you SO much, Adam! I can’t wait for you to take pictures when Thumper makes her arrival!

A friend at work (who is having a baby in a couple weeks) gave me an adorable gift! It's called a “Sleep Sheep”. It plays music and is really soft! I can't wait to try it out.

When I was looking at the website, I also found the “Twilight Turtle”. AND I WANT HIM SO BADLY!

And look what he does!

Did I mention that I WANT HIM SO BADLY!?

So if you need a gift to get me the baby, this would be PERFECT!

*UPDATE* I got a different version of this at a shower. I had completely forgotten that I had registered for it. It does basically the same thing as the turtle. It just happens to be pink…and a butterfly! It matches the room perfectly!

Apparently, when you look like this:

And you wear these for a couple hours to your husband's holiday party:

Your feet and ankles look like this:

I have learned my lesson. I will not wear heels for the duration of this pregnancy. And I most definitely won't think it's ok to dance in them to a couple songs at holiday parties. My feet protest and get very upset with me.

Point taken feet. Point taken.

I had a couple of my best friends over one night to hang out and chit chat. They had some wine and helped me sort through all the clothes I got from Katie. I even sent some clothes home with Brooke for her little girl, Anne, who was born in July. I am glad someone else is getting some use out of all of these clothes!

Chuck took a picture of us!

I'm the very pregnant looking one on the right. Brooke (on the left) spent the night, and Hillary (in the middle) went home, but we all went shopping the next day at the Mall of America and had a great afternoon! It's been a long time since I've had a girl's night/day!

Thank heaven's for friends!

I wanted to post the various pieces of bedding we got for the baby's room. I know most of you don't care, but think of this post as something for me!

I posted a little about the baby's room recently. You can see the bedding a little bit in the room. And for a small update on the baby's room, I got a small table for the bedroom, and a container for underneath it to store things. I moved the bookshelf that was there into another room. I think it's looking great! The room is now probably about 95% done! Now I just need the baby to get here so I can snuggle her in the room!

Now, back to the bedding!

The bedding is from Target. And I think I mentioned that we picked out the bedding and then painted the room green without seeing the green in the bedding. Chuck did a great job picking out the perfect color!

This is what the bedding looks like on a crib. (Note, this is not our crib since these pictures were taken from Target's website.)

bedding

This is an up-close view of the pattern on the bedding. Part of the bedding has this pattern, and the bumper and dust ruffle have a stripe pattern.

This is the diaper holder.

This is the pillow that came with the bedding. I put this on the chair in the room.

These are the wall decorations that we hung over the crib.

This the really soft blanket that came with the bedding. I have this sitting on the back of the chair in the room. There was also a comforter that came with the bedding that is in the pattern material. This will be great one day when the crib can transition into a toddler bed. You can also see the stripe pattern on the edges of the blanket.

This is the mobile that goes with the bedding set. I love that the pieces that hang are the same little designs as the pattern in the blanket. We are still working on figuring out how this is going to attach to our crib. If When we get it attached to the crib, I'll post a picture.

So there you have it. Lots of bedding pieces and I couldn't be happier with how they look! I just love it!

For my birthday, Chuck got me a gorgeous ring. I was so surprised because we had said we weren't doing gifts. But this wonderful husband of mine, always surprises me with the best gifts!

He got it in pink because (1) I like pink, and (2) because we are having a baby girl. I thought it was so sweet and thoughtful. This is another gift I got this year that means so much to me!

One of my best friends got me a very thoughtful birthday gift. It was this necklace.

She wanted to get me something for the baby, but also something that was for me. I think this was a wonderful compromise of those two things. I have started wearing it every day. It's also a locket, so I printed a (very) small picture of of ultrasound picture of the baby and put it inside the necklace. No one else could probaly tell what it is, but I know that I am always carrying a picture of my little girl with me all the time!

Another gift I got was this necklace:

This was from my mom, step-dad, brothers and my brother's girlfriend. I just love it, too! So since I didn't want to try to decide which one of these lovely necklaces to wear, I put them both on one chain and wear them every day. I am so happy to have these two necklaces and they each mean so much to me!

It's so special when people put so much thought into gifts!