We knew we wanted to tell the rest of our family members either in person or as "in-person" as possible.
We decided that we would be telling Kris' Mom in person so she would know before she left for her trip to Germany. We drove to Viki's apartment with a little gift in hand. She needed us to pick something up for her at Wal-mart so while we were there Kris picked up a bib that said "I love Grandma". We got to her apartment, handed her the bag and started chatting. Eventually she decided to check out the bag and found the bib and just stared at it for a minute. She had the funniest look on her face. Finally she said "Grandma?" and then FINALLY she got it! The moment was priceless. We had finally shared our news.
We told Aunt Lauren by calling her up and asking her if they could make a "Whiskey Gentry" onesie by Christmas time....she also took a second but got it and said she would!
We called Grandma Joanne and asked her what she'd like for Christmas, after telling us she wasn't sure, Kris asked her if she'd like to be a Great Grandma and in true "Joanne" style she said "Well I guess so, if I'm gonna be." priceless....
Tuesday, April 27 is my Dad's birthday. We had discussed how we would tell them. I wanted to be sure and see their faces when we told them so we made up a story about wanting to test out our webcam. Mom and Dad went along with it. While we were g-chatting with the webcam I told Dad that we had some birthday cards for him that we had forgotten to send. So We held them up and showed him. The first one was from me, the second one was from Kris and the third card looked like this....
Next came The Goulds and The McDonalds!
We are lucky to live so close to Jen and Derek so we went over to their house with our camera. We had recently gotten our kitchen painted and wanted to show them the pictures on our camera. I let Jen scroll through until she got to the picture of the pregnancy test I had taken. That was how we told Jen and Derek. Next came Maddy and Dylan. Baby G wrote them a letter that looked like this...
As you can see that is the copy that we made for Harrison and Annelise. We tried repeatedly to get Kris and Lydianne on the webcam with us and unfortunately were never able to. We called them and ended up telling them over the phone. It was very fun and I they were excited. I think Lydianne even cried a little. I am pretty sure they said to us "Well it's about time!".
After that we made the calls to our other extended family members. Everyone was thrilled for us and I don't think anyone was surprised.....I can't imagine why.
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