It feels so good to finally type these words… WE ARE PREGNANT!!! It’s been such a hard secret to keep for 3 months (especially as my waistline continues to increase lol). We told our family and close friends at around 9 weeks after we saw the heartbeat for the first time. Seeing the heartbeat for the first time was amazing.. that’s when it really hit us that there was a baby in there ha!
We took Ryan’s parents and brother out to dinner one night and dropped the bomb on them.. their reactions were so funny! I decided to discretely film them. 🙂 Since this is the first grandchild for their side, we got them mugs that said “promoted to grandma” and “promoted to grandpa.” For Ryan’s brother, we got a shirt that says “world’s best brother UNCLE.”
Annnnd then we booked an impromptu trip to Tennessee so we could tell my parents in person too!! I didn’t expect them to be super shocked, but my mom’s reaction is THE BEST!!! This isn’t the first grand baby for my parents, so I just got my dad some baby shoes “as a belated birthday gift.” 😉 Can you tell I was a little nervous?? 😬
Otherwise, I had to tell family via FaceTime. Not ideal, but it was much easier than flying around the country to tell them in person haha! I will say it was SO WORTH IT to tell my parents in person.. I am so glad we booked last minute flights to do so. It made the pregnancy so much more exciting and REAL to physically be with them when we told them. 🙂 You can hear my dad asking “is this a Cancun baby?” ha! We went to Cancun in January, but I was already pregnant then! I told my mom that this baby was an accident, and she said “those are the best kind!” because I was an accident haha! 😂 So funny!!
We got announcement photos taken with Mallory Munson photography and we were soooo LUCKY because it snowed 8″ the night before!!! I’ve always thought that the snow makes for stunning photos.. and I just felt so happy and lucky to have so much snow for our pictures. 🙂 Mallory took our wedding photos and I highly recommend her if you’re looking for a photographer in Colorado. She is awesome!
How we found out
One night, I was drinking wine and watching the Bachelor. We had ordered pizza, so I opened the box to grab a slice. I COULD SMELL THE PIZZA! (For those of you who don’t know this, I don’t really have a sense of smell! So smelling pizza is really weird for me!) I sat down, started eating my pizza, and was thinking about why I could smell all the sudden. The next commercial break I decided to just go take a pregnancy test… and it was *very faintly* positive!! I just brought it to Ryan (wine in hand) and said, “I think I’m pregnant?!” He just grabbed my wine glass and chugged it haha we were NOT expecting to be pregnant at all bc we weren’t trying!
I am going to follow up with a first trimester recap soon! 🙂
