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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

The Hills 8-12-09

One more week.....until Gramma Airplane flies in :) Yeah!!!!! It will be so nice to have her here for a while. Justin is very excited for Gramma to watch Sponge Bob in his bed with him at bedtime - good luck with that one Gramma! I am excited to be able to talk to you in person instead of phone tag all day long and Rob is excited to get a laundry break for a week :) (yes, you read that correctly...I don't do laundry. ever. love him!)

In other news:

*Went to the doctor on Monday for an appt and sono. Everything looks good - Mason is measuring about 38 weeks on everything except his head - that was 41 weeks. Ouch. Rob keeps teasing me that he's going to look like Stewie from Family Guy! The doctor said no need to come back in and he would see me in the hospital on the 20th, so I scheduled my 6 week check-up and was out of there!

*I took the dogs to the vet today...$406 later we were out of there and I was a dog hair covered sweaty mess :( Found out Quincy has a double ear infection (again). Seriously this dog has had ear infections his whole life, but I can't tell the vet "no I'd rather not pay for meds for him". That would make me look cruel. Oh, and Tucker is now 95 pounds! I don't get it. We measure out both of their food and Tucker is the more active one. So we have to put him on diet food and keep Quincy on the Lamb & Rice. She said there is a prescription diet food for $97 for a 20 pound bag. I politely told her thanks but no thanks. I mean if it takes a year or two off of his life span he'll still be fine. He's not so fat he can't walk. Oh, and I got them microchipped. We had not done this earlier, but now that Justin can open doors/gates/etc. we thought it was probably a good idea! Plus when I found that dog earlier this summer if he would not have been microchipped I would have had no idea what to do with him....

*I am so ready to have this baby! I want my horomones and emotions back!

You might know you are pregnant when:
  • You spill your McD french fries all over the floor of the van on the highway....then start crying because you are too fat to bend over and pick them up (they were really good fries though!)
  • You are sitting in church and see the date on the bulletin as Aug 9th and start crying because you realize in 3 weeks your parents will be on a plane back to LV. They are not even here yet and I was crying because they had to leave.
  • You are trying to get the lawn mowed and run out of gas after 3 minutes....and of course you start crying.
  • You are paying bills online and accidentally pay AT&T $460 instead of $160...but don't realize it until 3 days later when it's already processed. But at least no tears ensued!
  • You start crying because you realize it's the last week that your first baby gets to be an only child and he has no idea that his world is about to be turned upside down....and then he looks at you and says "be happy mom...don't cry". To which I bawl harder.

I am sure there are more, but I can't think of them right now.

We are super excited to see Uncle Ry and Aunt Manda in two days :) Yeah!

I think that is all the news we have here - I got my new camera in the mail yesterday so I'll try to take some pictures tonight and post them tomorrow.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Huggies Deal!

Rob and I went to CVS yesterday and got a great deal on diapers! They are on sale this week at CVS for 2/$18 plus $4 extra care bucks back.

PLUS - if you email me (melissamet@hotmail.com) I can forward you a .pdf of a $2 off Huggies coupon (I made copies and they took them all!) I am not sure how to post the link here since I just have it as a .pdf in my email.

PLUS - if you go to cvs.com there is a thing on their home page to complete a health quiz and then you can print off a $5 off of $25 coupon!! http://www.cvs.com/CVSApp/images/promotions/landingpages/rx/rx09030_readyfill/index.html?WT.mc_id=FH_080809_CVSHome_Ready%20Fill

We got (4) mega packs of diapers, (2) tubs of wipes, (4) diaper bag wipes - the ones in the plastic bag things and (3) 20 oz sodas for $43.00. AND we got a total of $11 back in extra care bucks to use later at CVS! This was in (2) transactions, but still....all of that for a total of $32.00 can't be beat!!! I am going to go back and get a new extra care card or two so I can do it again :) It's limit one tranaction per card for this deal.

Friday, August 07, 2009

Justin and Quincy



Just a cute picture for a Friday :) And yes...Justin did put it right back in his mouth after sharing! A couple years ago I would have freaked out about this, but I have relaxed a little and realized it won't kill him!

Thursday, August 06, 2009

2 WEEKS TO GO!!!!!

Sorry; not a very exciting post - not much going on. Just hoping the next two weeks fly by so we can meet Mason! It's hard to believe that in 13 days we pick my mom up from the airport and in 14 days we'll be at the hospital and maybe even have a baby!!!!!

I finally went and got a nursing bra, hospital bag, etc. I also got the last few things we needed for Mason...we are set and ready! The stroller/car seat came in and I LOVE it!!!!! Love, love, love it! Can't wait to have a baby to put in the seat!

I am going to buy Justin a doll today. Lauren got one for her birthday that she keeps at our house and they fight over it constantly. This morning though before Lauren got there Justin asked me to wrap it in one of Mason's blankets and he put it in the baby swing. I told him that when Mason is born, he can't pick up baby Mason, but if he wants to hold him he can sit on the couch and ask to hold him. About 5 minutes later he sat on the couch (I was in the kitchen) and asked me to bring the baby over from the swing so he could hold it. It melted my heart :) He's going to be such a good big brother!

I am also really excited for Justin's 3rd birthday party - but not really.....because that means that my mom and dad have to leave the next day! I can't believe all of the excitement we have in the next few weeks!

This weekend: Powerwashing!!!!! and some yard work
Monday: Ultrasound/Doc appt
Tuesday: Nothing
Wednesday: Nothing
Thursday: Ry and Manda coming in late!
Friday/weekend: Hang out with Ry and Manda!
Monday: Nothing
Tuesday: Nothing
Wednesday: Mom flies in
Thursday: Meet Mason :)

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Storms in Central Illinois

I took these pictures this morning from my office. I am standing outside taking them at 9am!!! We had a storm whip through, but it didn't last very long. I could not believe how dark out it was for that time of the morning!













Weekend in Michigan!

This past weekend we went to Kalamazoo to see the Rosebush side of the family.....it was so much fun! We had not all been together since Christmas, so it was good to catch up with everyone. Here is our weekend in pictures (in no order whatsoever!!)

Uncle Mikey and Justin tubing - Justin's first time on a boat and a tube!!!




Uncle Mikey flipping Alec off of his tube - not very nice!


Brandon, Justin and Grandpa Rosebush on the beach





Uncle Ry, Justin and Aunt Manda building sand castles




Uncle Mikey and his sand castle creation....




Until Godzilla, I mean Aunt Connie came along!




Family kickball game - I even played, but I was all time pitcher :)


Justin played with us too!




Morgan and Justin



Megan and Justin




I love him so much :)


I like the close ups of his face....












Grandpa & Grandma Metzler came to visit us too on Saturday! It was so nice to see them :) I have a few pictures of us and them on Aunt Connie's camera - I will post them if she emails them to me (hint, hint!!)













One of the many euchre games played over the weekend! Uncle Mikey, Grandma Rosebush, Uncle David and Aunt Michelle



Justin "driving" the boat...even though we are still tied to the dock :)


Megan and Aunt Connie


My favorite brothers in the world :)





Justin and his Uncle Ry!



Beach Bum



Justin with his favorite Aunt :)

Friday, July 31, 2009

New videos

Here's the link to where we'll be keeping videos on our YouTube site:

Link

Just put some new ones on there. Enjoy!

Thursday, July 30, 2009

36 weeks!

I had my 36 week appointment this morning. The doctor said I'm dialted to 1cm, but that doesn't mean anything because I was with Justin for a LONG time! He does want to induce me as soon as he can legally since Mason is so big, so it looks like unless he decides to come sooner his birthday will be August 20th!!!! We have to be at the hospital at 6am! SO excited....wow; that's only 3 weeks from today! Wow!

Okay - this is short and sweet because we are off to Michigan soon....can't wait to see lots of you!!!!!

Have a good weekend!

HD Video

Here's a quick video from our new camera. Took us a little while to figure out how to upload HD video to YouTube!

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Here are a few pics I stole from Ericka's facebook account for those who don't see them on FB! Just a few pics of some of the fun stuff Justin and Lauren have been doing with Ericka & Stephy :) So far this month they have had TumbleBus every Tuesday, gone to the movies every Wednesday, out for some lunches, to the zoo, to the park, etc. They have so much fun and we are SO blessed to have such great girls taking care of our kids :)




J&L on their way to get cookie ingredients at Jubilee


















Justin helping Ms. Stephy with the cookie dough













Yummy :) The best part!














I think this was on the way to the zoo...