Sharing The News

To share our news with our families, we wanted to do something more creative than just telling them. So we put our creative juices to work and this is how it turned out.

To tell my parents....

I tried desperately to find some kind of big brother shirt but had no such luck in our small town. Jeremy suggested we just make our own. Thanks to the many years of making shirts for my elementary school kids, I had tons of experience with iron on transfers. Rather than just do a simple big brother shirt, we thought we would do something a little more exciting. My dad calls Owen his little buckaroo. So here is what we came up with...It says, "Papa's Lil' Buckaroo is gettin' a new pardner! -December 2010-." We put the shirt on him one night before we went over for dinner. My parents' chairs sit on either side of the entryway to the living room so we had Owen walk in on his own. He leaned over to say hi to my dad and my mom starts to read his shirt. She said "Owen's shirt says Buckaroo." She asked me where I found it and I realized she hadn't finished reading it. I asked her to keep reading and she was like, "What does this mean? Are you pregnant?" Of course then, Dad picked him up to read his shirt and Mom starts to tear up. I think the shirt was a success! :)

For Jeremy's family...

Jeremy's parents came into town for an overnight visit before his mom's appointment in Durham. We told her we had an early Mother's day present for her since we wouldn't see her for it. She unwraps this.. We tell her there is a slot for every new member of her family that she is gaining this year. For those who don't remember, we have gained 2 new sister-in-laws this year and Erin (Jeremy's sister) will have twins in August. There is a 5th spot for our new baby.

She didn't get it at first. Jeremy finally told her to count and she was like, "Wait there are 5. Are you pregnant!!?" It was really fun to watch her get it! :) We also told her it could be a slot for all her grandbabies now. She is going from 2 to 5 very quickly!

Later she told me that it was funny because she had told her friends that the only way to top last year's gift (a Shutterfly photobook) was to give her another grandbaby. Who knew we would really accomplish it?!

Both families are excited and we are thankful that they are so supportive of us as we become a family of 4!