Making the BIG Announcement

Whenever people ask how I met my husband, I personally always start by telling them that our parents have been friends since before either of us were born and we grew up knowing each other. Justin likes to put it in a more, let's call it 'fun' way, by stating that it was an arranged marriage. FYI that is NOT true :)

Before we were ever even pregnant, I had thought about that 'one day' when we would tell our families we were having a baby. Since our parents are such good friends, I had always wanted to tell them together. Since both of our parents now live in somewhat the same town, it was perfect. The only problem was that it would be way too obvious if they knew they were both coming over to our place for dinner. We found out that we were pregnant on a Monday, and we told our families that Saturday! It was kind of strange to tell our families when it was still very surreal for me, but with one of my younger sisters going off to college, I wanted her to be there in person, and with Justin's mom being a nurse and having to work a lot of nights- Saturday night was the one night that met all the criteria and everyone was available. Justin called up his parents and told them that sine they had never really been over to our place for dinner, we wanted them to come over. My parents were actually moving that Saturday so I gave the excuse of inviting them over for dinner, so they didn't need to to worry about cooking with boxes still in the kitchen or eating out somewhere. The move was also a distraction that they didn't think anything of it ;) Justin's family on the other hand had a little bit of suspicion and his sister even called him up and asked if I was pregnant. Justin's response was, "What? We are just having you guys over for dinner!" No- he did not lie, he did not say yes or no to that answer but merely sent the conversation in a different direction.

Now that we had both families set on coming, we had to figure out HOW we wanted to tell them. I know a lot of people call their babies, "Baby and first initial of last name." Well ours would be Baby P and that sounded too much like Baby Pee so I wanted to go in a slightly different direction. I thought it would be cute to tell them, "We have a little P in the pod!" Since I like to bake, I made little pea pods out of green M&Ms and jolly rancher fruit chews. I put them on top of the cupcake and wrote the "title" on each person's cupcake- grandma, grandpa, aunt....

When they all arrived and sat down at the table, we told them that we actually had a fun dessert and we wanted to start the meal with dessert. I put the platter down on the table and watched the reactions. It took a second or two, but then the squeals and yells and picture taking began! It was such a fun moment and I am so happy that we were able to tell both of the grandparents together :)

Grandpa and Grandma A

Or should I say Papaw and Mamaw ;)

  

Grandpa and Grandma P

 Me and Justin's new titles!!

 Aunt Jen and Aunt Debbie

 Cousin Ya'el and Aunt Jessica

 Aunt Stephanie

 Mom and Dad :)

Aunt Jen is excited to share a birthday month with her niece or nephew :)

 Once we told everyone who was present, we were given a deadline of telling the rest of our family members by Sunday night. That night and on Sunday, we began making phone calls and Skyping with all of our sibs to let them know the exciting news :)