I ordered this SUPER CUTE onesie on Etsy, paid extra to have it rush delivered, and we (mainly me) racked our brains on how we should tell everyone.
I'm sharing the picture again because, I MEAN!
Coming from larger families, we knew that getting everyone together at the same time was not a real option.
We told my family on a Friday night. A few days before our appointment, I got online and did some "research" (my husband's favorite word) and found an adorable book for new grandparents, called "The Gifts of Being Grand." So I ordered two and had them rush delivered.
My family does a Thanksgiving tree and it's been a tradition for years. We have colorful, contraction paper leaves and we write various things we are thankful for every year. So I dug around in our office, found some red construction paper, and made a leaf and wrote Baby Nicholson on it. I stuck that in a box with our ultrasound picture and then the box in a bag with the book.
Late that night, after we had been over at their house visiting for a while, I stepped out into the garage to grab the bag that we had stashed before we walked in.
I made my family (Dad, Mom, & Joshua) sit on the couch together and asked them to open the box first, before pulling the other gift (the book) out of the bag. My mom was SHOCKED, Joshua was speechless, and my dad….well…bless him. I believe his first words were "Oooohhh noooo…." but not in a negative matter, just a totally shocked, never saw it coming way. Or so we think ;)
We told Aaron's family the following morning. When his mom opened the box with the ultrasound picture, she immediately started bawling, as did his sister, and his dad walked over, over-alls and all (you just have to know him) and he said "Well it appears you have a bun in the oven!"
Later that day, we told my baby brother Clark, who had come home from college for the weekend.
The next day, Aaron told his two brothers, and we face-timed brother Logan and my SIL Morgan, and I walked over to the Thanksgiving tree, where we had put up the leaf, and we laughed about some of the leaves that somehow make it back up on the tree every year, and then I casually focused on the Baby Nicholson leaf.
We called our grandparents in the following days and everyone was SO thrilled and SO surprised.
We decided to make our announcement early, after we got a chance to tell some more family and some of our close friends. Considering that we didn't really trust some of our family members to keep it a secret for very long, I think it was a good decision. I am very happy we announced early.
I was so tickled at the outpouring of love and kind words that were showed to us during those first few days. I may have cried a couple times (I DID).
'Tis the Season,
Holly
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