Tuesday, December 15, 2015
Pregnancy Announcements
Back before we were even trying to get pregnant, and even more so once we were trying- I used to think about how we would announce our pregnancy. Then by the time we were expecting I'd thought about it enough and spent enough time on Pintrest I knew exactly what I wanted to do, thankfully Russ agreed : )
My Family: My brother Tanner was returning home from an LDS mission on September 8. As we talked about it Russ and I decided this would be the perfect time that my family would be together where our announcement wouldn't be expected. However, we didn't want to steal the thunder and take away from Tanner's moment. So we carefully created a plan. Following the airport we all gathered at my moms for dinner. After dinner and in between leaving for Tanner to get released we gathered everyone in the front room to convince them that we needed to get another group photo of everyone.
Once we had everyone arranged I left my camera on record and Russ set his for a self timer- Russ ran back to the group and then stated " on the count of 3 say Brittany's Pregnant". There wasn't an immediate response so I followed it with "surprise". Then people started to slowly catch on. However, my mothers reaction was my favorite. It was delayed and then suddenly she realized what was going and just started screaming. It was even better than I imagined! And thankfully we had it recording so I could take screen shots of reactions, seeing as how they were so delayed the self timer shot missed most.
I seriously went home that night and cried watching the movie over and over again. I love it so much and will never forget that moment!
Russ's Family: The following Thursday after telling my family we invited all of Russ's family over for a BBQ at our house. This was a little harder and tricky seeing as how once they showed up and saw everyone was here supposedly everyone started getting suspicious and asking Russ when the pregnancy announcement was taking place. Well we made them wait until after dinner and desert before giving Mark and his wife, and Char one of these presents.
It was so nice after we told them to have the secret out a little bit- It was driving us crazy for 4 weeks keeping it to ourselves!!
Disclaimer- I was only 7 weeks pregnant when we told our families. I have a good friend who does ultrasounds that took a look at 6 weeks to make sure that it wasn't ectopic and that with my abnormal uterus nothing looked to concerning. She gave us the green light so we announced seeing as how I was getting sicker and more ornery (and more emotional) and we wanted them to be in on our secret. That being said we really stressed to all our family members to not tell anybody seeing as how it was really early.
Making it Public: we both knew that when the time came we wanted the dogs to be included in our public announcement. So we went to our 12 week appointment on October 14 and got to hear the heartbeat for the first time. As we went to leave my doctor told us that we were now less than 1% chance of miscarrying. We took that as a green light and decided to make the announcement on social media.
Instantly we were overwhelmed and flooded with support. It was so fun to announcement it, and such a relief to know that now everyone knew/could know! Such a fun part of pregnancy!
My Family: My brother Tanner was returning home from an LDS mission on September 8. As we talked about it Russ and I decided this would be the perfect time that my family would be together where our announcement wouldn't be expected. However, we didn't want to steal the thunder and take away from Tanner's moment. So we carefully created a plan. Following the airport we all gathered at my moms for dinner. After dinner and in between leaving for Tanner to get released we gathered everyone in the front room to convince them that we needed to get another group photo of everyone.
Once we had everyone arranged I left my camera on record and Russ set his for a self timer- Russ ran back to the group and then stated " on the count of 3 say Brittany's Pregnant". There wasn't an immediate response so I followed it with "surprise". Then people started to slowly catch on. However, my mothers reaction was my favorite. It was delayed and then suddenly she realized what was going and just started screaming. It was even better than I imagined! And thankfully we had it recording so I could take screen shots of reactions, seeing as how they were so delayed the self timer shot missed most.
Russ's Family: The following Thursday after telling my family we invited all of Russ's family over for a BBQ at our house. This was a little harder and tricky seeing as how once they showed up and saw everyone was here supposedly everyone started getting suspicious and asking Russ when the pregnancy announcement was taking place. Well we made them wait until after dinner and desert before giving Mark and his wife, and Char one of these presents.
Disclaimer- I was only 7 weeks pregnant when we told our families. I have a good friend who does ultrasounds that took a look at 6 weeks to make sure that it wasn't ectopic and that with my abnormal uterus nothing looked to concerning. She gave us the green light so we announced seeing as how I was getting sicker and more ornery (and more emotional) and we wanted them to be in on our secret. That being said we really stressed to all our family members to not tell anybody seeing as how it was really early.
Making it Public: we both knew that when the time came we wanted the dogs to be included in our public announcement. So we went to our 12 week appointment on October 14 and got to hear the heartbeat for the first time. As we went to leave my doctor told us that we were now less than 1% chance of miscarrying. We took that as a green light and decided to make the announcement on social media.
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