Being pregnant around Christmas time allows your imagination to run wild with how to tell people your exciting news!
If things had worked out as planned, you all would have been getting something like this in your Christmas card….
But alas, we weren't able to get a sonogram picture in time! And since we weren't past "the safety zone" by Christmas, we decided to wait and make everyone's January instead!!!!
However, we were super excited to tell our immediate family that, both their and our families were growing! So being the crafty mccrafterson that I am, I devised a plan!
I needed an idea that allowed everyone to open their "gift" at the same time without causing suspicion! We decided on coffee mugs that were filled with coffee, tea, chocolate and candy, and that they were gifts we had made from Hayden! We made the mugs ourselves to reflect the title of the person receiving them. For example: "Best Grandma Ever x2" as this would be her second grandchild. We made one for all the Aunts and Uncles and Grandparents! They were really cute and on the back we put July 2014 in a heart!
Now it was time to watch their reactions and celebrate with them!
First up was the Peever side. As they spent Christmas with us we were able to see their reactions in person…. and let me tell you it was NOT what we expected!
We packaged up the mugs and gave them out Christmas Eve as a "Pre-Christmas" present. Since we had bought the kids some pyjamas, a movie and a special book, it didn't look suspicious that everyone was getting something. We waited with nervous anticipation as they all opened their parcels and said NOTHING! They looked at the mugs, riffled through the chocolates, said Thank You, and put them back into their packaging hoping to use them later. Curtis and I were STUNNED! Oh crap… our plan hadn't worked… what were we going to do now! So Curtis went up to his mom, grabbed her cup and told her to read it again. After a few seconds she got the message and started screaming! Everyone else looked around with disbelief as to why she was screaming, still not putting pieces together! It was quite comical because she had to explain why she was screaming to everyone. We were able to get most of it via photo (and she is going to KILL me for putting this up), but I think this is my favourite picture of the holidays. Here how it played out……
So much fun! Of course, they were very excited for us, and immediately all of the excuses as to why I couldn't drink wine, or why I felt sick all of the time, made sense HAHAHA!
Next up was my family. We weren't able to spend the holidays with them this year so we watched their reaction via Skype. We opened all of our gifts Christmas Day, culminating in our exciting news! It was quite the opposite reaction because they had barely gotten their packages open when Courtney and my dad stared at us in disbelief! We weren't able to get as many photos of that interaction but I did manage to get a somewhat clear one of them just after they had opened their packages (PS ignore Sheldon in the background… that story is for a later date LOL)
All in all we were happy and excited to tell everyone and they were excited to hear our news! Now it was just making sure our little peanut was okay and growing in the sonogram! And planning a way to deliver the news to everyone else!
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