telling the family! {part 2}

remember my post about telling the family our big news?
oh, well i just forgot to mention one little detail about telling the family... namely, bry's family...

brad and jacki are expecting too!

 she's about 3 weeks behind me! we are thrilled to be having a niece/nephew so close in age to our little bean. 

the johnston family is just growing like crazy right now! cheers!

sorry, buddy...

mother's day overshadowed (but not really) my brother's 12th birthday. only on the blog. mommy was good about sharing the day. can't believe he's 12 already. i was 12 when he was born. makes me feel old!

sald, love you tons, buddy. you're the best brother ever!

the kid looks good in ray bans, huh?

happy mother's day

we spent the day with our mothers. and man, do we have a couple of amazing women to call our mama's. 

vickie & charlotte,

thank you for all you've done for both bry and i. you are truly beautiful women who inspire me to be a great mom to my little one.

love you both dearly!

and ps. we need an updated picture!

his choice

i took this picture of our fridge.

this might just look like an assortment of randomness on the fridge, but today it means so much more.

two years ago, this boy made a decision to ask that girl to marry him. and he's said time and time again that it was the best decision of his life. i think about this idea sometimes. that he chose me. i was his choice. and i am still flattered and grateful and excited to be his choice.  

my heart is so full today. full of gratitude and love. full of thankfulness and amazement. full of wonder and awe of what is yet to come. 

b,

we have been on quite the journey. i know our time together didn't begin two years ago, it started long before that. but i think of what this day in our life symbolizes. it was so big. and it still is. i'm so glad we have this life together. i'm so glad you chose me. and i'm so glad i said yes. and now to think that we have this little one joining us in a just a few months. i can't even count the blessings. i love you more and more everyday. 

a

telling the family!

bry and i have known about our little one since mid-february. neither of us are very good secret-keepers, so we really struggled with keeping our news to ourselves {especially because we live in bry's parents' in-law apartment, we whispered quite a bit!}

 we were waiting on a job offer for bry, and it came along at the right time... just as we were going to tell our families. it was a great excuse to visit our families and "celebrate"!

we told everyone on march 30. we wanted to be able to tell all the parents in the same day, because we knew once the news got to one set of parentals, that they would want to share it as well. 

we didn't get any pictures with my dad, but we told him at breakfast. i had a baby picture of my dad in my wallet and i said, "hey, i have some pictures i wanna show you". i pulled out the baby pic of him and handed it to him, and then after a second, i laid down the picture of our ultrasound. he looked at it for a minute and said "...what is this? what IS this?! are you pregnant?!" we both smiled and he was so so excited for us!

next, we went over to my mom and stepdad's house. bry talked about his job for a few minutes and my mom was getting out cannolis that she picked up. bry and i picked up a cake and wrote on it saying "Surprise! Baby Johnston coming October 2012". i went and opened the cake and laid it down in front of my mom, stepdad, and brother, who were all sitting at the dining table. there was a few confused looks and my stepdad had to get his glasses, but they all realized at the same time. my mom started jumping up and down like a bunny rabbit, my brother started sobbing immediately, and my stepdad started yelling excitedly like the italian he is. they were overjoyed! it was great!

bry thinks the cake looks anti-climactic because there's no punctuation on it- that's what you get from stop&shop i guess :)

lastly, we headed home to casa de johnston and we shared our news with the cake. this cake we decorated a little bit more and had the artist, brad, do the writing on the cake. i walked out holding the cake and there was more jumping, yelling, and tears. they are thrilled for baby j!

it was a day of excitement and sheer happiness. it couldn't have been any better!