Telling Family

When I called my dad to break the news, he was with my brothers. I had him put me on speaker phone, and once we got it working, I asked them how they felt about being uncles and a grandpa because in 9 months, that's what they were going to be. They of course teased me and asked if I was buying a kid. I told them no that I was pregnant. They then asked who the father was. So I told them it was this guy Jason. I will have to introduce them at the next holiday party we have. lol I think they are all excited.


Not 5 minutes after hanging up with them, my stepmother called. She is elated!


As we were on our way to the party store, Jason left a voicemail for his dad saying, "Hey Grandpa, call me back when you get this. Love ya."


I also told him he should text Tyler. So, we've covered out-of-towners and 90% of my family. It was now time to get out the tricks and tells Jason's moms, littlest brother, sister and my mom.


We thought of a few different things. But we came up with getting little pink and blue balloon bouquets, and setting them on the front door step of each house with a little note, then driving away and texting.


As we were making our way across the valley, we came up with a few ideas for writing inside the cards. Jason thought of a knock knock joke and with some fine tuning, we came up with:


Knock. Knock.
(Who's there?)
Expecting.
(Expecting who?)
Expecting Baby Graf in May 2011!!!


The only downside was that when we stopped by each house, no one was home. LOL


However, Carla arrived home shortly after we left. She called Jason so excited that she is going to be an auntie.

Brian and Gi got home from work and were really excited for us.


I ended up calling my mom. My family is real weird. We call each other for some of the most random things, or to tell jokes or for no reason at all. So, I called to tell her the hilarious "joke" that Jason told me. She was pretty mellow about it, but she was also in the middle of a relief society function. I do know that she is so excited to have a grand baby.

Friday morning I got a text from Jason saying that his mom knows. I am really excited for Jason to be a dad, but I'm nearly just as excited for his mom to have another grand baby. I finally motivated myself to get up, the fatigue is really kicking in, when my phone rang. I picked it up and it was his mom. I loved that she said, "Hi Jessica, it's grandma." She told me that her and June were out pretty late and as they were pulling in the drive way she saw the balloons. Then she saw they were blue and pink and said, "June! Look! Blue and pink balloons! Jason and Jessica!!!"

I'm so excited for all the joy this baby is already bringing to our families.