Telling Bill and Karen

Adam made me keep a secret from my mom for a whole week!!!! He's so mean. He wanted to wait until we got the blood test results back. We were supposed to have them on wednesday.... the nurse left me a message while I was at work on Thursday. Which did me absolutely NO GOOD.... finally I got a hold of someone and they confirmed that I am indeed pregnant! We wanted to do something cute to tell mom and dad, so we waited until we could find something good to do.... we went shopping and found an adorable pillow for mom. It says, "Great Moms get promoted to Grandma." Dad was a little harder. We wanted to give him plans for a bassinet (is that how you spell it) or a rocking chair. There was a snow storm, so we did not want to drive far away. We ended up at Barnes and Noble, and found a book that included how to make a rocking chair. I "wrapped" the presents in gift bags on the way home, and we were so excited to finally tell mom and dad. They weren't home. Grr! We had to wait like an hour for them to get home. Then, we told them that we had early presents for them. Mom told me that they wouldn't open them earlier because it wasn't Christmas yet. Eventually we convinced them, and dad opened his present. He had no idea why we gave him a book about chair-making. Then mom opened her present. And she said, "does this mean.... I thought you might be...." Then she squealed, "how exciting is that!" about a million times in the next hour. We told her it was a secret for now, but then agreed that we should call Aunt Chris in Washington to tell her too. Later, we went over to tell Bo and Trish. Bo and Adam were playing Rock Band or Guitar Hero. Trish asked what was going on, and I was telling her a bunch of mundane stuff and then casually mentioned that we were having a baby. Only at that exact moment the song had gotten REALLY loud, and no one but Adam noticed what I had said. It was pretty funny, so I had to tell them again. Bo and Trish were really excited and we celebrated by going out to sushi. (I only ate the cooked stuff) Overall it was a pretty awesome day!