October 3, 2013

When we left Fetal Fotos we went straight home because it was the date we would be telling our parents that we are pregnant!  We went home and I loaded my computer up with the pictures, admired them for a bit, and then we called Travis’ parents. We talked about their vacation for a while and then told them we had taken Family Pictures a couple of weeks before, and wanted to send them a few so they could choose one for us to give them for their home. We sent them two family pictures, then pictures of the dogs with the signs we had made – one for Baxter that says, “Baby C” Guard Dog – Duty begins March 2014, and one for Lucy that says, “Official” Baby Toy Tester – Effective March 2014.

His parents looked at the pictures of the dogs and then his mother said “Oh, Oh, Oh, are you trying to tell us something? Are you guys pregnant?”  We told them yes, and they were SO excited!  We sent them a little profile pic of the baby, and then asked if they wanted to know the gender – Bob said No, and Annette said Yes.  I sent a weenie shot and his mom opened it and Bob decided he did want to know – they looked at the picture and Bob said, “that looks like a vagina to me” and Annette said, “Bob – it says, I’m a Boy right there!”  They were SO excited we are having a boy!  They congratulated us and we asked them not to tell anyone until the following day after we could tell the rest of our families. 

After talking to them for a few more minutes, Travis and I headed to Market Street Grill for dinner with my parents – to celebrate my dad’s birthday. We sat down, chatted for a few minutes, ordered our food, and then asked if they wanted to see the family pictures we had taken, and see if they wanted any prints. We gave each of them one family picture, and one puppy picture. My mom looked at the family picture and said she loved it and definitely wanted a print, and then looked at the picture of Lucy. Then she put the pictures down and looked at me, and then picked up the pictures again and looked at the picture of Lucy – then looked at me – and said, “really?”  I said, “Yes” and she jumped out of her seat and hugged me because she was so excited.  My poor dad, was stuck on the “Baby C” part of Baxters because he couldn’t figure it out – “we already have a baby c with conner” was his thought. That made sense – but we couldn’t fit “Baby Cornett” along with all the other writing on the sign – so Baby C it was. They were very excited and had figured we weren’t pregnant because we didn’t say anything about doing IVF.  

Later that evening, I sent a text message to my siblings (classy I know) – a picture of me holding up the grey little outfit I had bought to tell Travis, and wrote “I guess Abstinence is NOT key” and sent it to them. I knew they would think it was funny because Spencer tells everyone that Abstinence is Key because he doesn’t want to think of any of us having sex. Brian immediately called me and we talked for a few, and then I skyped the boys to tell them. I showed them a picture of the ultrasound and asked if they knew what it was, Austin said, “it’s a picture of Baby Will.”  I told him he had pictures like that of baby will, but it was a picture of the baby in my belly – he was So excited! He yelled to his mom “Mom, Jenny’s having a cousin!” Sarah asked if it was a boy or girl, and I let her know a Boy.  They’re very excited too.  Melissa called me from the BYU game and was super excited – and Shayla and Spencer texted me and they’re excited as well!

The next day, we told Travis’ sister Sara while at dinner at Red Robin.  Travis asked little Billy how he’s liked watching our “kids” – and he said great. Travis asked if it was easy or hard, and Billy said easy. Then he asked if he would still be willing to watch them if we added a “third” and he said yes, Sara asked if we were getting another dog and we said No. They asked if we were getting a cat, a dog, and even a monkey- before they guessed it was a real kid. They seem pretty excited as well.

For some reason I was really nervous about telling our families. I don’t know why… maybe because it’s just such a big deal and I was SO excited about it that I thought their excitement wouldn’t match mine?  In any case, everyone was excited and we were so happy!