Everybody knows or more Friday Fun with Photos!

I'm back! After 5 days of traveling we finally made it home safe and sound. And it's official...everyone that should know we are expecting, knows! I wish I could say we had some elaborate plans to tell our folks, but sadly this creative mind was all fizzled out. Must be the hormones.

I ordered this cute frame:


I had the awesome u/s pic made into a 2x3 and voila. While I am sure there were prettier frames out there, something about this one spoke to me. Maybe the simplicity of it all?

Ok our first stop was my parent's home and Hubby and I argued (not really) about how we should do it. See my parents have a tendency to stay up late, even after everyone else has gone to bed. Hubby and I stayed up as much as we could, hoping to be able to put said frame on the fridge. Finally when all was quiet we snuck to the kitchen, only the frame would not stay put! So instead Hubby put it on the microwave and we went to sleep. I really thought my mother would find the frame and wake us up in her excitement. But things are never how or what you imagine. I think we looked exhausted and she was nice enough to be excited and yet let us sleep! Thanks Mom! :) When we finally did wake Hubby and I whispered about whether the frame had been found and why it was so quiet in the house! Turns out my Mom did find the frame and quietly shared the news with my Dad. See...she knew all along. Call it mother's intuition, but all along she and my eldest sis knew something was up...they just couldn't figure out why I was hiding it. Oops...so much for thinking I was slick. Here's a pic of me and that eldest sis...she's eldest of the siblings after me. I can't wait to see her slinging poopy diapers...doesn't she so look like the type?


After a great day with my family we had to wake up at the crack of dawn the following day and head to North Carolina. We made a pit stop at home and then surprised Hubby's folks...well, really just his Momma. She was eagerly awaiting our call to come get us from the airport, but it was decided by someone else (cough, FIL, cough) that surprising her would be better. And it was...it always is! Once we got there I was eager to spill the news the first night and Hubby and I exchanged private looks but nothing happened. The next day we all have a wonderful breakfast and sit around the table yapping our traps about nothing and everything. Hubby gives me a look and I'm not sure what he wants me to do, so I do nothing. Finally he goes and gets our camera, cause as you can see I missed my parents reactions. He places the frame on the fridge and we wait...only no one gets up. And when they do, the fridge is the last place they are headed. At this point it is time to kick this telling into high gear and Hubby gets the frame and hands it to his Mom. This is her initial expression:

Yep, that's exactly what I was hoping for, so it's a total score for the scrapbook! Hubby's dad was a bit more reserved, but I have a feeling when Baby comes and calls hims Gramps he won't be so reserved.

So that's our story and I'm sticking to it. Everyone was excited and giddy and all those things people are when someone you love tells you they are expecting. I didn't expect any less, with families as big as ours, how can you?

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Inquiring minds want to know

A few of you asked and I've figure I'd give a bit more background and details.

As most of you already have figured out, this will be our first child. Hubby and I dated for 3 years before getting engaged and will be celebrating our 5 year wedding anniversary in January. We figured it probably was about time we popped out an heir because it was the one question we got asked a lot. And I have to be honest, talking me into having a kid was work. I am lazy, I am selfish and I know once you become a mother there is no room for either of those "assets." So for us to wait was perfect, I treated our dog as a child and when he annoyed me, I could ignore him with no consequences.

Then I began to get that urge...you know the one where you see babies or pregnant women and feel your uterus kick you? That pain...only it would come and go. Usually it went when I was out and saw a mother trying to wrangle several toddlers into a store or my dinner was interrupted by a screaming baby or unruly toddler. Yep, those were the moments that I looked at Hubby and thought, NO WAY. Because see, I'm not silly enough to think that those things would not happen to me...I knew I'd be that frazzled mom looking to the heavens for help. So what better way to avoid than to be happy in our wedded childless bliss? But the uterus would not be ignored and finally we decided there would never be a right time and my eggs were not getting any younger. So 4 months ago we took the plunge...literally and figuratively.

If you go back to my first entries it's all about us "doing" it and how I was feeling and what was happening. My body was suddenly all over the place with it's cycle and I couldn't count on a thing. And I didn't want to wait a year for the doctor's to decide to have me try this or that. I was giving my body 6 months to get it's act together. And that's when I also decided I was over it. Maybe it wasn't meant to be, so I stopped worrying. And don't you know that was when it happened.

So here I am at 10 weeks and because I am slightly superstitious I wanted to wait until I was past my 12 week mark to tell our families. What's funny is that I have no problem telling prefect strangers. My mom did always say I had a problem with that...

I want to wait because we have had family members that told early in pregnancy only to have to give bad news a week or two later. I've been that embarrassed person that asks how things are going only to get the a look with tears and sadness. I didn't want anyone to be that person and I didn't want to have a family that is going to be so excited because this will be grandbaby numero uno. (#1 for you folks that ain't bilingual) Everyone is ready to go baby shopping and knowing that I want to be sure I am healthy and baby is healthy before spreading the news. I am all about better safe, than sorry.

We don't know how we will tell but Deanna gave a great suggestion, which includes a cute little rhyme in a frame. This weekend I actually had an opportunity to blurt it out at dinner to my family and had to bite my tongue! When we get together with Hubby's family there is usually a night that the whole immediate family will have dinner together. We know that will be when we tell...we just don't want to say "we have something to share", so we are trying to think of a way we can say it without saying it and see who catches on first! I am open to all suggestions, so comment away.

That's our story and I'm sticking to it!!