...11 weeks...

Well, as of today I am 11 weeks and 4 days along. We had our second doctor's appointment today for baby and got to listen to their little heart beat. We found it pretty quickly but they kept moving around so the nurse had to keep searching for them. I'm convinced that our baby is taking advantage of how much space they have right now to play hide and seek! The doctor told us that everything is looking good so far, my labs came back just fine. I have lost a little weight ( I'm sure from being so sick ) but he said it's not anything to be concerned about right now, which is a relief!

Now, I was going to post these a while ago but I have not found the motivation to do it until now! I video taped revealing our pregnancy to immediate family so I could keep the memories, BUT, I, being really careless and not technology savvy, accidentally deleted revealing to my mom and my two brothers. I cried... a LOT...when I found out what I did. So, I'll just have to tell you how I did it.

For my mom and younger brother, the plan was that my brother, Buck, would doorbell ditch our house leaving a gift at the door ( so my mom wouldn't know it was from us ), but unfortunately she noticed the camera hidden in our kitchen and started asking what we were recording, so it kind of blew our cover. We gave her the gift anyway. It had a little note about a little pumpkin joining the family and her new name she would be given next summer. The name reads "Darling", which is a very special name in our family that belonged to my amazing great grandmother, a name that I would love for my kids to call my mom now. Here are pictures from that night ( at least I still have pictures right? )

For my other brother, Cameron, I had been texting him telling him I needed to sit down and talk with him. He was convinced that it had to do with an ex girlfriend because I wouldn't tell him over the phone and kept saying "we just need to talk in person" every time he asked what was going on. So, he came over and I had set up the camera ( better than the first time ). I told him he needed to sit down and panicked, because I didn't really prepare how I was going to actually break the news, so I, sounding a little crazy, started to say "Once upon a time, Jason and I met and fell in love...and now...we're having a baby!!" The look on his face was priceless, it went from total confusion to a big smile. I wish I had that on video still.

Here are the texts I received from my Dad, who was out of town at the time and had to be told over the phone, as well as from my sister.

When we told Jason's family. We told his parents by giving his Mom a cute little children's book as part of her birthday gift, then told his sister and her family over skype. Also, I'm sure my sister in law, Tiffanie, isn't as angry as she sounds about our announcement! And, turns out we weren't actually pregnant the night she is talking about :) I was just really hungry that night I guess, call me miss piggy!

                                                                                  

Here is a couple from filming aunts, we wanted to film more people but everyone was all over the place so it was hard!

     And last but not least when I announced it to my sweet husband. This one definitely did not turn out like I wanted it to. I set up a scavenger hunt of notes leading to his anniversary "present", but I totally messed up on the order in my excitement, I was a little upset, but oh well! Jas had actually asked me two days earlier if he could have his gift ( that was the day I took my first test that showed up positive, but it was so faint that I didn't feel totally sure I wanted to tell him and find out it wasn't correct). He kept saying "I need this, just give it to me!" and I would say "But what if you don't like it, what if you're disappointed??" and he would say "I PROMISE I will love it! I know I will! I need you to give me my present!" He totally knew what was going on but I was so nervous to let him down I made myself wait and take another test two days later. Anyway, here it is.

(Ok, this is really depressing, it won't upload the video of Jason, I will keep trying to figure it out and hopefully get it up here soon!)

There were quite a few other reveals that are special so us, but we're going to keep them special just to us :).