Guess who's "prego"?!!

So, once Mike and I were both convinced that I was in fact pregnant we decided to share the news! Of course Landria was the first one to know and I made her swear to keep it mum until further notice! I knew I could trust her, but I do think she told her hubby to keep from busting at the seems! On Wednesday night, I think it was the 25th (June, of course) Mike and I decided to let the "cat out of the bag"!! I spent the whole day coming up with my "perfect plan" to let our mom's know. Mike had already made plans for us to go to his mom's house Thursday night for dinner and we would let her know then. But, in the mean time we just HAD to tell SOMEBODY!

I was so excited to tell mom, Earl, Jenny and Josh all at once but I didn't know when I could get them all together so Mike and I drove over to Jenny & Josh's to report our newly discovered good news! So, side by side Mike and I told the aunt & uncle-to-be, "We have something to tell yall.......I'm PREGNANT!!!" Jenny started jumping and smiling!! "NO WAY?!! REALLY" which was then instantly followed by "HAVE YOU TOLD YOUR MOM!?" She then ran off and came back with the "What to expect when you're expecting" book!! We showed them the test which read "Pregnant" to confirm that we wern't playing a joke on them!! Josh hugged me and shook Mike's hand. Meanwhile, Cousin-Carter was not at all interested in this news and only wanted to show me his cars and tractors! We decided to take a picture of Mike and I holding the "What to expect" book and the pregnancy test, this later came in handy when we broke the news to mom and Earl. With the help of Jenny we came up with the plan to go to mom's house the next night, once we left Wanda's house to break the news. Whewww....if yall are bored from reading all of this, I won't mind if you skip this particular blog!

The next night we went to Wanda's house to share with them their souviners from St. George, even though this was not the "purpose" of our visit! Once we got there I passed out the gifts along with a wrapped braclet box for Wanda. She probably figured I had bought her a shell bracelet and opened it not expecting a pregnancy test to be enclosed! Mike and I had our eyes glued to her reaction which was the following: "You got me a pregnancy test from Florida?"

Ummm......I couldn't help but laugh! "No Wanda, look at it!!!" "Oh my God!!" She jumped up and grabbed us both!!! The next one to be suprised was Tiffany who was on the way home from taking Ava to vacation bible school, we decided to suprise her the same way. Once she got home I handed her the box and said here "I brought you this back from Florida". I can honestly say, Tiffany's reaction was one of the best ones! She opened the box and then SLAMMED it shut!!!

She looked at Mike and I and then doubled over and couldn't say a word!! For atleast a minute she was in a state of shock!! What a fun night!!! The next stop was mom's house.......

Now, keep in mind Jenny had taken a picture of Mike & I the night before. The plan was to give mom a stack of pic's from Florida and shuffle the one's of Mike & I with the test in the middle. Josh was working that night but we wanted him to be able to hear mom's reaction. I of course wanted to video tape her reaction just the way Josh & Jenny did with Carter, so Jenny brought the video camera and pretended to be setting it up while mom looked through the pics. In theory this plan seemed flawless. Let me set the scene: Mom and Mike on the sofa. Me, Jen, Earl and Carter were on the floor. Jenny had the camera in hand with Josh on speaker-phone pretending to coach her through setting up the camera to the TV. Mom had given Carter an empty paper-towel role to use as a toot-toot horn. Carter was yelling through the tube the whole time! Mom throws down the pics and gets the TV set-up guide to help Jenny set up the camera for the video that we were NOT actually going to watch! Confused? Yea, you should have been there!! I said, "Mom!! Will you please look at those pictures!!" She sat back down and started looking again.......Mike and I were making eye contact because he could see which pic she was on, he would shake his head with every pic that was turned....the more she flipped through the louder Carter would get! Earl then grabbed the camera from Jenny to hook it up (not knowing that Jenny was recording!!!) I freaked!!! I didn't want the "moment" to be missed! "Earl!! Give Jenny back the CAMERA!!" I snapped! Mom then yelled at me! "Manda! What is wrong with you!!!!" I felt so bad! Finally, Mike looked at me and nodded......It was the "Moment!" Mom of course was not wearing her glasses and turned to Mike and said, "What is this?" Mike said, "look at it!" ( Mom thought Mike was holding up a box of Famous Amos cookies in the picture!) "Are you PREGNANT?!!", I think she asked me that 3 times! "YES!!" I said!! She jumped up and hugged me, "My baby's having a baby!!" And yes, Jenny was able to record all of this chaos!! Josh, who was still on speaker-phone was about to lose his mind! All he could hear was Carter toot-tooting on the paper towel role!! Mom & Earl were super excited!!

The above pic is of Wanda when she opened the box, along with pic's of Aunt Tiffany and Cousin Blakely from this same night : )