Help put diapers on our future baby girl

YouTube - 2nd Annual $5,000 Louisiana Hot Sauce Video Contest

help GT win the LA Hot Sauce Video Contest by voting before Jan. 31st

http://www.youtube.com/group/LAHotSauce5KContest#p/a/3/5UEs0nMz6J4

So, my buddy Tim (who just so happens to be the last winner of American Gladiators) has mad skillz when it comes to video editing. So, he enlisted me to act in a video for a contest advertising LA Hot Sauce. Voting ends on Jan. 31st and every vote counts. Please help us out by following these directions and the link (the voting process is way more confusing than it needs to be but it is what it is) Thanks and here's the skinny...

Click on the link and it will take you to YouTube and the contest site. Even though my video will show up right away you actually have to go over to the right and select it from amongst all the others. It's called "Don't Forget". You'll need to go above the video and click on "join group" which may or may not require you to be signed in to Gmail or YouTube (not sure). Once you play the video you can go under it to the "Discussion" tab and there will be a place to click "i love it". That's huge b/c that's how a vote is counted.

Y'all are awesome and if you feel compelled to pass this on we'd appreciate it. I've also attached a link to the Facebook event that has all the details as well for you to pass on to your Facebook friends

-Geoff

what interior design looks like

yes, folks.

this is what owning your own interior design business run out of your home looks like.

our house has become a storage unit for all of my client's orders that cannot be housed in a basement or garage (upholstery, sheets & towels, accessories and the like).

so in turn, my house is quite embarassing in some places.

but i have decided to make it public, to put it all out there because, praise jesus, these will soon be "before" photos.

(big grin)

above you will see exhibit a is our laundry room: stocked with box upon box of a large towel and bedding order.

exhibits b and c are my office: one wonders how i work in there at all. there are some sexy little hip moves i have to execute in order to make it to my desk around all the crap...
and note the fabulous stroller - our "baby gift" stuff has had to go in my office too, since the poor Little Lady (LL) doesn't have a room yet.

but tomorrow is a good day.

tomorrow The Mahm arrives.

(for new readers/friends of team us, The Mahm is my mom, the one the only the fabulous, pat chapman.)

The Mahm will be employed this week and part of next week as a design assistant of lindsay todd design, llc.
she will be helping me move my clients in to their new house (see my design blog, link on the right)...

and out of mine!

it will be a fantastic week and my home will start to feel like my own again.

no more boxes stacked on boxes (boxen? anyone?), no more stacks of coffee table books as tall as i am, no more pathways that have to be carved out for guests to reach their bed...

and the LL will have the beginnings of a room of her own.
wish us luck!

my life would suck without you... an ode.

dear oreos, mountain dew and sweet clementines,
i am overflowing with gratitude for all you do for me.
the joy you bring me in my life is inexplicable.
you ease discomfort, calm frustration and make me a delight to be around.
you are crunchy, delicious, bubbly, and juicy.
you are good for me but sometimes not so good for me.
you put a smile on my face and excitement in my tummy.
and i know you are making my Little Lady happy, too.
with love
always and forever,
lindsay

how sweet it is

my dear friend, missy stopped by today with her oldest, lilly anne.it was fun to see how our bellies are different but yet the same... we are both 23 weeks today! what a blessing to have a close friend to go through pregnancy with. even though we live 537 miles apart...lilly and i just got done making snowflakes out of coffee filters , so we were rewarding ourselves with fruit snacks...

23 weeks OMG!

what this kid is getting into

i was looking through some wedding photos today and got a huge smile on my face and warm fuzzies inside...
what a bunch of fun people this kid will be getting as grandparents!
i found multiple pictures of both sets of parents having a blast on the dance floor at our awesome wedding (am i right folks? was it not the best/funnest wedding ever?) and looking great doing it. geoff and i have been so blessed by the parents we have and we are both so excited to see what grandparenting our child will bring out in our parents.
(geoff's parents are already in the "grand" role but it will be my parents' first gig.)
so cheers to you,

grandpa terry

grandma nancy

gigi pat

budrocks winn

(we'll see how all these nicknames turn out...)

may our child learn to dance by your example and learn to love by the way you care for us.

there's a first time for everything

this, my friends, is a momentous event you are witnessing.
every single time i have attempted to make cornbread in the last, well lifetime, i have ended up with another FAIL mark on my cooking career.
BUT last night was a first. it was not a FAIL.
it was an "I WON"! i BEAT the cornbread, the recipe and my oven!
and my cornbread was awesome, peeps.
melt-in-your-mouth delicious.
perfectly soft.
right amount of sweet.
gorgeous green jalapeno chunks.
it will now be known as "lindsay's cornbread recipe" and i will never stray again.

what kind of a wife i am

i think this shows how amazing of a wife i have been this week:

where can i find that magic laundry button?

daddy now in support of the second amendment

the votes have been tallied.
the poll has been closed.
the sonogram has been confirmed.

daddy's getting his gun license and a WNBA agent.
we are having a GIRL.

the last day

so today is the final day.
the final day of the unknown.

the last day before g and i find out our most frequent phrase we'll be saying over the next 5 months (and, well, forever): baby girl or baby boy.

tomorrow everything will be different.

we will know (almost) everything there is to know about our baby until they arrive in this world.

we won't type "it" or "they" or "him/her" or "him or her" on our blog ever again.

we won't wonder what color to paint the baby's room.

we won't shop for neutral-only baby clothing or toys or accessories.

we will start talking about names.

we will start picking out nursery furniture and bedding.

we will talk about the baby as "he" or "she".

we will have a completely different mindset than before.

we will KNOW.

and that makes it THE most exciting day.

going on 21 weeks

for all of you who have been loyally following our blog, in nail-biting suspense of what size our little fruit is this week...

junior is about 7 inches long and nearing 11 ounces...

three and a half days left

i am on the edge of my seat. WE are on the edges of our seats.
and have been for nearly 2 months now...

WE GET TO FIND OUT THE GENDER OF JUNIOR IN THREE AND A HALF DAYS!

(or as my baby daddy says, we'll find out "WNBA or NBA".)
that means there are only 3 days left to vote for what you think it will be - so cast your ballot! and on tuesday, watch for the outcome...

will team us be chewing on pink candy cigars or blue candy cigars on tuesday??

hurley hearts the snow

the hurls and i are the only ones in our family enjoying this beautiful snow, for sadly geoffrey is in atlanta missing it.

cabin fever will probably hit sometime late today or tomorrow, so i decided we'd remedy that by getting some fresh air...

the lovely, peaceful snow before hurley:

the snow after hurley:

what i saw when i woke up today

i know for some of you, this might be a normal winter occurence. one of these people is my husband. you grew up looking at the snow in the winter and loved the rare days when you had school cancelled because of snow. you skiied on it, sledded down it, and made some pretty darn awesome snowballs with it.

but there are some of us to whom snow is completely foreign. we never had "snow days". if we did, it was because some rancher saw one white flake, called the news station, and then no one in central texas left their house all day because it was "snowing!". trust me, folks, this is how it works in the south.

so today i am loving (and will love) every moment i look out the window and see the snow falling. it is truly beautiful. there is something so magnificently serene about it, watching it fall. so keep coming, you glorious frozen white flakes.

hooray for real snow days....

christmas in teXas

and to continue a great holiday season... we headed to the warmer weather!

on the 20th, we drove from kansas city down to austin to spend the rest of the holiday with my family. while we were there, we did a few "musts" that you have to do while in austin during christmas. the first was going to see the lights on 37th street. each house on 37th street (well these days, almost every house) is decorated with lights, and not just 4 or 5 strands or in a "normal" way. check it out:

yes folks, that is a sock monkey nativity scene.
man i love christmas in austin...

more from 37th street

the house at the end of the street had this throne, so of course we had to sit in it!

the zilker park christmas tree

an old austin tradition: the zilker park tree.

the best way to enjoy it: (besides watching the little kids enjoying it) hold your lover's or daddy's hands, look up, and twirl!

christmas morning in austin

on christmas morning, we woke up and "did" our stockings first - my brother had to leave to go to church late morning, so we decided to save the rest of the gifts for later that afternoon. stockings are always a blast in my family, mainly because my dad goes to town in this store near the UT campus in austin called toy joy. we receive all kinds of old school candies & gum, and toys that wind up and make you laugh until it hurts, yet have no other purpose on this planet.

thank you dad, for being so fun and totally random.

(as for the photo above, don't ask me why i look so confused and both reed and geoff are dying laughing...)

my brother reed, ever so pleased with gift cards that offer free coffee.

geoff, proud of himself at the balancing act he had just accomplished.

and me, and that beautiful stroller!

thank you, mahm & dad!! and thank you to little oliver's family from craigslist - no idea we would own the stroller of our dreams... (of course we felt the stroller needed a passenger for it's first ride, so we installed the stuffed reindeer that resides on my parents' fireplace most of the season.)

christmas in kansas

what a christmas we had...

we first got to go to kansas for a couple days and see geoff's family. we celebrated his grandpa's 94th (!) birthday and his 73rd (!) anniversary with geoff's grandma (did i get these numbers right, terry & nancy?!)

the next evening we went over to matt (geoff's brother) and sarah's for "christmas" to open presents and basically watch hannah go nuts over her presents. (tip for those with kids/nieces/nephews: wrap their gifts in paper, not gift bags. it is so much more fun for them - and you - as they get to tear away all the paper!) among the things we got hannah, and the gift we were most excited to give her (especially after dinner the night before when we saw a santa down at the plaza in kansas city and hannah told him she wanted a computer), was a "computer". it is this little pink kid computer we found and i had told geoff we had to get it because she is always wanting to help daddy with his computer - not always a good idea...

so she tore away the multicolored snowflake paper to reveal, "A -PUTER!! GUYS I GOT A -PUTER! WOW! WOW! A -PUTER!" i think that was the best part of geoff's and my christmas in kansas.

later, as she was typing furiously at her little pink keyboard, we asked her what she was doing. she replied, "just emailin' to see what's up with aunt rosie..." when she was done with that, she asked each of us if we wanted to skype with her and rosie... or the squirrel.

it was a good christmas

and we are glad to be home.