Telling Luke and my Parents I was expecting...

Finding out the week of Christmas that God gave us the BEST gift of all was SO very fun! It was a great time to find out because we had the chance to see all our family and tell them in fun ways! 


Telling Luke...
I was sleeping the afternoon away on Sunday 12/18 the day I officially found out, when I heard Luke come in our condo around 3pm. When I sleep before going in to work ( I work 7pm-7am twice a week) I usually sleep until 4pm but when I heard him come home, my heart started BEATING OUT OF MY CHEST! I casually came down stairs and sat down on the couch and made some small talk. "How was church?" "Where'd you eat lunch?" and the like. He was playing video games so I knew the moment wasn't right :) I asked if the game he was playing could be his last... he said sure and when he finished playing I told him I had a Christmas present for him. I told him it was Christmas-related so having it be the week of Christmas now, he needed to open it. Earlier that morning I had wrapped a little gift that I bought at Target a couple days earlier when I had a feeling we MIGHT be pregnant. I didn't want to spend a lot incase we weren't expecting. I went under the tree and he opened these up...

 Simple... just little Christmas socks. As luke opened them up he was in complete shock and filled with SO much joy! We praised God, hugged forever, I cried, and I spend the next hour before I had to go into work, filling him in on the past 24 hours of finding out! We were elated and so thankful! I can honestly say telling my husband I was pregnant will go down as one of my all time most precious and special memories of my life.


Telling my parents...
In October 2011 my mom called me one day while I was driving in my car and told me she and my dad purchased something for future grandchildren. I told her she really shouldn't do that because who knows what God had in mind for us. It might take another year before becoming pregnant. But I couldn't help but get so excited on how excited she was to buy a "christmas pickle." I had never heard of a christmas pickle, but my parents were in the Fresh Market and found a little ornament shaped like a pickle that you hide in your christmas tree on Christmas morning. It is a German tradition and whichever child finds the pickle first receives a special gift. She thought it would be a fun tradition to have at their "grandparents" home. I thought it was sweet and over the next few weeks she kept calling my future baby (not yet conceived) her "little pickle." It became a little nickname she had for baby, so I knew exactly how we would tell my parents! We were headed into Louisville to visit my parents and other family that tuesday before Christmas (I found out on a Sunday) so waiting 48 hours to tell my parents was SO difficult, especially talking to my mom over the phone and having to keep it a secret! We came to their house pretty late and they were already in bed, asleep. We had to wake them up! We walked into their bed room, turned on the light and Luke walked in holding a big jar of pickles that we tied a red bow around! My dad "got it" away, it took my mom a minute as she was still half asleep. My dad loves pickles so my mom thought we were bringing him some for christmas! She finally got it and it was so sweet to see how thrilled they were! They were shocked and SO excited and definitely decided this was the best Christmas present they could ask for. We stayed up for an hour or so telling them all the details and just rejoicing in God's goodness! 
That week we told my whole family! On Wednesday we told my 89 year old grandmother which was so very special (first great grandchild). I only took a few pictures, here are some from that night...