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 :)

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!

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!

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...

I have the best BFF in the world :)

Women are allowed to change their minds, right? When I was pregnant with J, I was so excited to have that little baby boy and registered for everything blue plaid. It was nice and I really liked it, but my tastes have changed in the last 3 years. It didn't help that my boss gave me their old car seat (~ 2 years old) and it was Chicco brand. I loved it. Simple colors, nice feel, etc. I tried finding the matching stroller to that pattern, but it's discontinued. I made the mistake of pushing the Chicco stroller in the store though....and fell in love. The handle comes up past my belly button, so it's uber comfy for tall people, it manuvers really well and looks so nice! I think we will be using this one much more than we ever did with J too - 40+ Rivermen hockey games plus Justin's hockey games, etc. That's a lot of strolling in his first few months of life :)

I was emailing with Katie this morning becuase I had a devil on one shoulder telling me to just buy it and an angel (and Rob!) on the other telling me that you have one that works you don't need to buy a new one. I wanted her opinion....The next thing I know I have a tracking number and it will be at our house next week! I am sooooo excited :) You did not have to do that Mr & Mrs Adams!!! I hope you know how much we appreciate it! I can't believe in less than a month we'll be bringing Mason home in it!!!!

Oh, and the best part is we still have the one from my boss that has a car seat and 2bases. The bases themselves are $80 each!!! I think that we might just keep both bases and scrap the car seat since we would probably not get more than $80 for it on Craig's list or anything. That way we will have 3 total - one for each of our cars and one for Ericka or Steph in case they have to take him anywhere!

Do you like??? I can't even tell you how excited I am to get this stroller/car seat combo :) Thank you SO much Katie & Josh!!!!! Plus it works now for a boy and if our next one happens to be a girl, a pink blanket will still look nice with the black/silver!!!!

Expectant Brother class :)

I just signed our family up for this class...I am pretty excited! Rob and I have never been to the L&D part of the hospital, so it will be good for us too. I think it will help Justin to maybe understand what is going on a little better? If not, he'll still have fun diapering one of his stuffed animals :)

Description:

This class is for "expectant" brothers and sisters, ages three and older, and their parents. When you attend this class you and your child tour the Wonder Center to see where mom stays and to visit "brand new" babies in the nursery. The children talk about new babies. Children are encouraged to bring their favorite doll to diaper! At the end of class, they enjoy special treats. Each child receives a tee-shirt!

35/35!!!!!!!!

35 weeks pregnant and 35 days to go :) Getting closer.....

I'm not going to lie - if Mason wanted to come tomorrow I'd be perfectly happy with that. I am huge....and uncomfortable. I have to pee every 4 minutes, I can't pick Justin up very much anymore, he wants me to run the bases when we play baseball - yeah; that doesn't happen. I know I shouldn't complain though; we have a big healthy baby boy on the way and for that I am grateful! I am just ready to be done being pregnant.

My boss is coming into town tomorrow to interview 3 guys. I hope it goes well...I do not want another Mark situation. I am trying to get the office looking nice today. Our landlord has not washed the exterior of the building since we moved in (2 years ago almost). It's white with black shutters. The white part has so many spiderwebs, etc. and the black shutters and windows are both grey. So I'm armed with my cleaning supplies and I'm going to make it look nicer. I have to wait for the Menards deliver people though. Right now I have a folding table with a microwave/coffee pot and stuff (paper plate, plastic silverware, coffee cups, etc) all sitting out and it looks cluttered and ghetto. I went to walmart to try to find something to hide the "stuff" under the table, but with the crossbars it had to be low profile and it would again still be ghetto. So I went to Menards instead, got an instock white 5' cabinet and an instock 8' piece of countertop to match. That way there is room to put the fridge under the countertop leaving much more space for the microwave/coffee pot and the "stuff" can go in the cupboards. My boss didn't answer his phone to "approve" my little spending spree, but once he sees how nice it looks I'm sure he'll be happy to pay it :) Plus I've been salesman of the month 5 of the last 7 months and booked over 2.3M in sales - what's $350-ish right?

Nothing else new is going on here - GG Brooks and Godsie are coming to visit on Saturday/Sunday. Justin is excited to have new people to play with! Then a week from today we leave for Michigan!! Fun times :) After we get back from MI it will be only a few weeks until D-day!

Baking with Justin....

Here is a video from last week of Justin and I making a cake. Beware before eating baked goods at our house that this is pretty normal :)

The Hills 7-20-09

Hi there! Hope everyone had a good weekend... Ours was another nice and relaxing one! I could really get used to this, but I think they will be coming to an end soon! A few more of them at least though. Mason is good - he is moving a lot; or at least trying to. He's getting so big in there that it is getting harder for him to stretch and kick. Plus when those 3" feet get into my ribs I stand up and try to coax him back to the belly region :) I had 2 people tell me that I look like I'm carrying lower than I was; which of course got me a little excited that maybe he'll come early...but probably not. According to the ticker we have 38 more days; but according to the doctor he said to make plans for 39 weeks....so 31 days! If you want to get technical I'm 86.429% of the way there based on the full 40 weeks :) I'm not going to adjust the ticker though; just be pleasantly surprised if/when he comes early. Don't get me wrong....I like being pregnant and am grateful that I am able to have big healthy babies - but Rob, Justin and I are just excited to meet him. I think especially now that we have the house done, the boys bedrooms are finished, baby clothes washed, awesome child care in place, etc. We needed a couple of last things for Mason and we got them this weekend - a baby monitor (the one we had for J broke) and a wipes warmer. I know that some people don't think these are necessary, but I like being able to wipe a baby with nice warm wipes :) Oh, and Justin got him a soft baseball rattle that says "little slugger". He wants to get him a bat too, but I think we'll hold off on that one for a few months :)

I think I figured out what I want to do for my next job.... Just kidding; I'm not quitting the job I have, but I'm thinking about another business. I wanted to get a pre-natal video/pictures of Mason like we did with Justin. As you can see in the last post, it's a much more vivid, clear picture. That one was not done at the OB/GYN office - it was a place that you go into just for fun...no medical license or anything. We got it done in the Chicago area when we lived there. I think it was a 30 minute session and it was around $175 for the session and video. You can get more stuff added onto the package, but we went cheap. I wanted to do it here with Mason, but the closest places are either Chicago or St. Louis! I seriously think that a business like that could survive here. You have not only Peoria, but Bloomington and all of the other little surrounding towns. Pregnant women tend to spend money on a lot of things - and I thought that was one of the coolest things when I was pregnant with J! We have to make a lot more $$ to finance something like that, but it's worth a thought someday :)

Here are a few (okay - more than a few) pictures from the last week!



J at Emack & Bolio's...a new ice cream place by Daddy's office. We tried to go to Emo's but they were closed on Mondays. This place was really, really good - but it was almost $10 compared to the $5 we spend at Emo's. Guess we'll have to wait until grandparents come into town and let them take us there :) J/K!

There was a girl there with long brown hair and Justin kept telling us that she looked like Morgan (which she did!) and he wants to see Morgan. Only 10 more days :) :) :)





J helping Mommy make a cake - stay tuned for a video on the next post!













The best part of baking :)














The monkey on a tree he got from the Riverfront Market Saturday morning. We already lost a few leaves from the tree when we got the camera out...but he's still in his room and not popped!










Throwing sticks into the bonfire to help Daddy















Being a goof ball. We spent a lot of time out by the fire this weekend. The weather was PERFECT - 70's all weekend and cooler by the time we were out by the fire. Mmmmm....smores :)










Being goofy again :)














Out to eat for lunch Sunday at Flattop Grill. He had just gotten his hair cut and she spiked the front. Rob and I loved it, but he kept trying to push it down and would not let me spike it again this morning. He looked like such a little trouble maker boy!









Making chocolate/banana milkshakes with Daddy













I love his hair :)













For all of my mommy friends - you have to get to Toys R Us this week if your store is doing the same sale as ours!!!! I got everything here for $16!!!! It's buy one get TWO free!!!!! A lot of places have markers on sale for back to school, but not many of them are washable....I would not buy markers that were not washable with my little monster :)