Yes, there is a reason I'm this hungry!

John and I are beyond thrilled to announce that we will be adding to our family! Next May (the day after my birthday is our exact due date), we will either have a baby boy or a baby girl to join us. Of course we are extatic, excited, giddy, nervous, in planning mode....I could go on and on. We feel extremely blessed with this life event and could not be more happy about it.

John and I are NOT at all secret keepers. A lot of people would probably never tell their friends and family before the 10 week mark (or so), but that is definitely not us. A couple of weeks ago, we headed over to our families house to share the good news with them. I was only able to snap photo's of what we gave my mom and Tommy to let them in on our news. When I was little I had a lamb-y that I would sleep with each and every night. I found it only appropriate when I came across a lamb at Janie and Jack to give it to my mom to tell her she was going to be a Nana. Here is what we gave them.

She opened it up, read the poem (you'll have to excuse my lack of poem skills here, but they worked) and knew right away what we were telling her. She was thrilled of course.

That same night we were having dinner with John's family, the perfect occasion to break the news. To dinner, I work a black shirt that said "Knocked Up" on it with a zipped-up hoodie over it. We waited for everyone to arrive (his mom, dad, sister Katie, her husband Todd, and mom's good friend Donna), and then I casually took off my hoodie. Todd noticed almost immediately and said "Niffy....do you have something to tell us." I was blank at what to say because I had expected John to chime in for some reason, so I didn't say anything and he just gave me a hug. Then everyone else figured out what was going on and of course they were all thrilled.

My dad's birthday was a couple of weeks back, so we told him we wanted to stop by that day and bring by a belated birthday gift. In his birthday bag was an "I love grandpa" bib and onesie. He and Judith were beyond shocked. I don't think they saw this one coming at all. It was pretty funny. They too were thrilled.

Stay tuned to read about our journey along the way...