Nursery Ideas

Over the past several weeks, I have been looking at all different types of Nurseries. At first I thought I wanted to do brown and blue but as I really started looking, I think I have turned more towards a light crisp clean looking space. Below are some pictures of things I have come across over the past two weeks.

The nursery above is one I found online. It was a featured Serena and Lily nursery in a magazine and I love how inviting it is. My favorite part about it is the horizontal grey and white stripes. I will most likely be stealing that idea. ha. I also like the light blue/aqua color they used with the grey.

The painting above is a Sugarboo designs painting. I absolutely love everything that they do and cant wait to hang this in baby Taylor's room. This is a must! ha.


Here are some of the fabric swatches that I found in Atl with my mom this past weekend. I am thinking I want to use the colors grey, lime green and light blue/aqua as the main colors in the room. I have to look for a cool light blue fabric but until I find one, I am just laying the swatches on light blue tissue to see all the colors together. This is by no means finalized but its a thought for now.

Here are several friends I picked up this past weekend in Atlanta. I loved their colors and thought they were perfect for a little boys room. They are actually much brighter and vibrant in person but I thought they were just too cute to pass up!

19 weeks!

Seriously?!? Look at that stomach! This is crazy! There have been several times this week that I walked by the mirror and didn't even recognize myself. I know I keep saying this but it is so crazy to see yourself with a stomach. I know people say to embrace it and yada yada yada but I just don't think I will ever embrace it. ha. I know there is a sweet little baby in there but boy to I feel like a moose! I knew being 5'1 that I was going to get big but now I think im going to be HUGE! I have 21 more weeks and im praying that I dont get anywhere close to Johns weight or I know I will never hear the end of it. PS. Im starting to think this is a bad picture. Let me go try some more and I will post them! Ha. Lets hope the next few look better!

Sweet Friends!

Over the past 18 weeks, I have been blown away at the amount of love and support our friends have shown us and our future son. We have received the sweetest cards, phone calls, texts and gifts and could not feel more loved! Over the past two weeks I received our first two presents for our little man. They were both so cute that I just had to share them!

As soon as I found out that I was having a boy, the first comment out of my mouth to John was "no bloomers??" Sadly he laughed at me and said no. But to his surprise one of my best friends Whitni was able to prove him wrong. Whit found the most adorable pair of baby boy bloomers! Now for those of you who know Whit, this comes as no surprise that she could find something like this. She is my sweet friend who has a 3 year old little boy that she puts in the most adorable clothes. He is always dressed perfectly and looks adorable! I cant wait till we finally decide on a name and I can get these monogrammed! Thanks Whit!!







These adorable gifts are from my best friend Jayme! She is always so sweet and thoughtful and I swear she must have run out the moment we told her it was a boy and got these. It was such a wonderful surprise to walk to the mailbox just a few days after finding out we were having a boy and opening a box full of goodies! I can't wait to put a picture of her holding the baby in the frame. It will go right in his bedroom and he will see it every day! PS. I don't know if I have even told her this yet, but I think on the the themes for the nursery is going to be owls so boy did she do good! Love U Jaymes!

17 weeks pregnant!

Lucky for me, I got to spend my 17Th week of pregnancy in the Florida Keys for a little Adult Spring Break. John and I went with his family and stayed at Tranquility Bay Resort on Marathon Key. I had never been to the Keys before so I was extremely excited to go. I honestly didn't care where we went as long as it was sunny! I was ready to not be the pale pregnant girl anymore. ha. We had a wonderful time relaxing, swimming in the pool, eating fresh seafood and just spending quality time with family. If you ever make your way down to Marathon Key, you have to stop at eat stone crabs at Keys Fisheries! They are $1.25 a claw and amazing! What a great deal! On the last day of our trip, we decided to make our way to Miami and stay at the AMAZING Epic Hotel. That hotel is one that I will hopefully visit again one day. It is beautiful and has the most amazing views of the cruise ships and yachts parked right outside its doors! I have stayed in some pretty nice hotels before but this one is defiantly at the top of my list! I would recommend it to anyone. While in Miami, we made our way over to South Beach for the day to check it out! It was spring break so it was so crowded. I loved the atmosphere though. I will defiantly have to make my way back there once the baby has arrived and I can get away for a weekend. We also made our way to Dash! I was dying to see it and hoping that we may run into a Kardashian since we heard Khloe was in town. The store was cool but sadly Khloe was no where to be found. Oh well, looks like we will just have to come back! ha. Below are a few pictures from the trip and my 17th week of pregnancy.

Look at the bulge! AHH, its so crazy to see yourself with a bump when you are not used to having one! Nuts!

Annie, Lynn and I at Keys Fisheries!

John and I in front of the sunset!

15 weeks!

This post is a little late but here is a pic of me at 15 weeks! Its crazy how thick I feel around the middle. Its kinda hilarious having people look at me and wonder....is she pregnant?? I still kinda look like I gained a few but hopefully soon people will be able to clearly tell im pregnant and not chubby. ha!

IT'S A........

Let me first start off by saying, I am so sorry I have been neglecting blogging these past several weeks. I promised myself that I would be good about capturing all the big milestone and of course I have failed at my promise. But I am going to be better I swear.

On 2/28/11, John and I headed to the doctor for our 16 week appointment. This is the appointment that I had been looking forward to for quite some time. At 16 weeks there is a very high possibility that you can determine the sex of the baby through the ultrasound. With that being said, my type A personality shined through when I booked a 3D ultrasound that day to insure that we would be able to determine the sex (go figure). From the moment we arrived at the doctors office I could not sit still. We were about 10 minutes early and waiting as patiently as we could. As I glanced at the clock every 2 seconds, I realized that we were already running 15 minutes behind. After asking John many times if he would allow me to go check what was taking so long, he finally caved after 20 minutes. Turns out, THEY LOST OUR ULTRASOUND APPOINTMENT. They had typed in the wrong code and booked it or someone else! Right at that moment, I knew the disappointment was written all over my face. I calmly asked them if there was any way they could squeeze me in due to the fact I had already invited all of our family over that night for a reveal the sex party. After several minutes of discussion, they told me to go on with my regular doctors visit and they would see what they could do about squeezing in an ultrasound.
During the doctors visit, we were lucky enough to be seeing Dr. Sanders (which is the doctor who delivered Kelly) so when she asked about the scheduling conflict I felt comfortable enough to actually tell her about what happened. After briefly explaining the situation, she walked us right over to the ultrasound room and asked them to take a look as a favor for her! She was too sweet! Right when they put the machine on my belly, it was obvious! WE WERE HAVING A BOY AND THE WHOLE ROOM KNEW IT! HA. Our baby boy had his bottom and underside facing the screen and we were able to see very clearly that he was all boy! My first reaction was to look at John. Right then and there I could see how happy he was to be having a SON. He had told me all along that it didn't matter to him what we were having but at that very moment I knew it did. He was SO EXCITED! He was going to have a future baseball player on his hands. I was very excited too! I have always said, if I could plan my family that I would have a boy first and then two girls. Although I will admit that I had a little moment when I realized that there were no bloomers or tutu's in my near future. ha. But as soon as I got past that and remembered the look on Johns face, I knew I was just as happy as he was!
They next few hours were crazy. We immediately called my parents and told them they great news. My dad was so excited to be getting a boy, he could hardly stand it. He told me he was on the way to pick him out a set of golf clubs. ha. Who knows, he probably did! Then they rest of the day was spent calling our closest friends and telling them but making them promise they wouldn't say a word till after we had told Johns side of the family. That night, we got together with all the Taylor brothers and sisters (minus Annie who is in Nashville, but we had her on skype) and played a little game to reveal the sex. John and I bought 8 blue and pink balloons. We filled 7 of them with silver confetti and filled the remaining 1 blue balloon with blue "ITS A BOY" confetti. The family took turns popping the balloons until they popped the one that said what the sex was. It was hilarious because all of the girls were determined that I was having a girl but Mark and Matt were determined otherwise. To Lynn and Kelly's surprise, they found out on the last balloon that we would be adding another little boy to the Taylor baseball team! HA.
The whole day was absolutely amazing and we just feel so blessed to be having a little boy this summer. I am already day dreaming about teaching him how to ski, wakeboard and play sports. I cant wait to be the crazy mom in the stands who thinks her kid is the best one on the team. ha. Until next time....