Spilling the Beans

I have to say I am terrible at keeping up with this thing. I plan everyday to add something to the site, but I get extremely tired at 9:00pm. It's like I hit a brick wall. I'm lying in bed right now, making myself add something, because I really want to share but I'm always so darn tired. And it's Thursday, which means the weekend is here and most likely I won't have another opportunity to post.

As most of you know, over Labor Day weekend (the holiday seemed appropriate, if you know what I mean) Eric and I went back to Joplin to share our surprising news. We are having a baby!! We waited 13 1/2 weeks to tell almost all our family and friends. It was really truly hard to keep such a big secret, but we really wanted to see everyones faces when we spilled the beans. And let me tell you, it was worth every second.

I had had an ultrasound at 10 weeks, so I made enlarged copies of the photo and placed them into frames for my mom and Eric's mom. At the Labor Day cookout my mom had, we had both our moms open their "gifts" together. It was awesome having them find out and react to the news together. My mom gasps and then started crying; and Margie (Eric's mom) said, "Are you really" and started crying. Then the whole room knew and we were overwhelmed by hugs and words of congrats. My friend Amber was the first one to give me a hug (I think she might even be more excited than I am). And both Ashley and Jared were surprised they didn't know, since we had seen both of them over the summer. All in all, it was a great way for everyone to find out.

Unfortunately, my dad had to work and couldn't make the cookout. And Eric's dad lives in KC and wasn't able to come down either. So we had to tell them separately. We told my dad, the same way as our moms, by giving him a frame to unwrap. He was surprised and happy for us. However, Eric's dad was a little hard to read; he seemed to be nonchalant about the whole thing.

Well, I will try to keep this blog up-to-date and at least post once a week. Also, I have more pictures to post. I haven't taken pictures since 12 weeks and now I'm 15 weeks (officially in the 2nd trimester), so I will post another picture over the weekend. Alright, I am zapped for the night and I am going to bed. Night.