Announcement Fun!

I was kind of a slacker and also wasn't really thinking about my camera in the moments that we announced. I did capture my parent's reaction since we were celebrating Christmas with them so I already had my camera out and it didn't look super obvious for me to be taking their picture/video! Unfortunately, I can't upload the video to my blog, but i'm pretty sure everyone who reads this is friends with me on facebook, so i'm sure you all saw it there! For everyone else, you'll have to settle for the story version! 

I'm pretty sure the very day I found out I was pregnant I was on pinterest the whole time during the girl's naps! There are WAY too many announcement ideas out there! The sad/silly part is, we didn't even use any that I found on there LOL

When we got into NY we stopped at my sister's house first. They always make the trip to mom and dad's to see us when we come to visit, but we thought it would be nice to make a pit stop and spend some extra time with just them since it had been so long since we saw them all! As soon as we got there we had to have "Christmas" because I knew what one of my presents were and there was no part of me that could wait! There will be pictures to follow in another post about all of that, but I gave my sister an envelope that said "The best sister...." and on the inside flap it said "...deserves to be promoted!" and it had our ultrasound pictures inside of it! She squealed and I was attacked by Marissa : ) It felt great to finally get to talk to someone about it and get some helpful tips and hints from my big sister! 

Sunday morning we headed out from my sisters to go to Jeremy's parents. We got there before everyone had gotten home from church so we were able to unload and settle in a little bit. When they got home from church we did our welcomes and then Jeremy started talking about his crazy "Movember" mustache! (I should have taken a picture of his face!) He asked his parents if they liked it and then told them that he had a pretty cool shirt to go with it! He took his hoody off to make the big reveal...

At first they just saw the big mustache part and stood their laughing at it, but after a minute or two his mom caught on and started yelling "What?!", then his dad picked up on it and started cheering : ) 

That afternoon we had a surprise birthday party for our sister-in-law that we went to. Towards the end of the party when family started getting ready to leave we took advantage of having almost all of Jeremy's extended family in one spot and pulled the shirt out again. No one saw any of it coming and I have to say that his parents did a pretty good job of keeping their looks and comments hidden when a few remarks were made about us having kids before we revealed our secret! That evening we skyped with Jeremy's brother in Arizona and he showed off his shirt to them, too : ) We still haven't met our niece that lives out there, so when we first got on they were holding her sleeping so that we could see her. I told Jeremy he needed to wait to show them his shirt until after they put her to bed because I knew my sister-in-law would have a squeal! : ) 

Monday afternoon we left Jeremy's parents and headed out to my parents house. Again, as soon as we got there we had to do "Christmas" with them. We will be in Arizona for Christmas this year with Jeremy's family so that is why we celebrated Christmas with most of my family at Thanksgiving. After we all exchanged gifts I gave my parents their last one! At the time that we told them the baby was the size of a green olive, so inside of the gift box was a jar of green olives! This also had a double meaning because when my mom was pregnant she loved green olives! As soon as my dad saw the jar he knew what it meant, but there was a note inside that went with it, so I quickly changed the subject and told him to read the note! (His reply was that he didn't need to, but I made him!) 

This is what it said....

"Olive the way you made me smile

The way you made me laugh

Olive all the things you taught me

You showed me time and a half.

Olive the way you love each other

I've watched you all these years

Olive the way you love my man

You even buy him beers.

But most of all,

Olive the way you'll love the olive growing inside of me!"

When my dad got 1/4 of the way through that last sentence he realized that his prediction was correct and stopped reading, so it took my mom a couple more seconds to catch on since she was just listening to my dad read and then had to finish reading it herself, but she quickly caught on and started screaming! Then I called my grandparents and asked my grandma if she was ready to have two great-grandchildren next year instead of just one (my sister in law is due at the end of January) and she asked if that was because I was having one too!? 

Last but not least, when my brother and sister-in-law arrived Tuesday evening Jeremy was wearing his shirt again and it didn't take too long at all for my brother to turn his head to the side and ask what his shirt said and if it was for real?! LOL 

We made a couple more announcements to some close friends before we posted our official announcement on Facebook.....

We always have so much fun getting to NY and visiting with family, but this trip was SO much more fun and exciting with us being able to surprise everyone and share our exciting news! 

I also had this shirt to wear for Thanksgiving, but by that time everyone knew : ) 

We love our baby turkey so much already!