The fun in telling...

So it went down...

We told the family.

Clay's parents got an invite over last night, which we have dinner plans with them for tonight, so they knew something was up, yet they didn't know exactly what it was... but when they came in Murphy, our little sweet dog, went crazy as normal, because he loves Debbie and Rocky- but Murphy was wearing a little red shirt and they thought it was cute and were trying to figure out what it said. In big capital letters it read "I"M GOING TO BE A BIG BROTHER."

They loved it and were very excited and Debbie teared up... it was so much fun. Debbie is trying to think of a cute grandmother name. Any ideas would be fabulous... leave them under comments!

My dad had a late meeting so he wasn't on his way home until 10:30ish so we had him drop by and we used Murphy to tell Dad too. He didn't get it right away so we blurted out that we are pregnant! It was fun. Then Dad stayed over awhile and watched Hardknocks with Clay. Clay was nervous telling everyone so after we told Dad he seemed relieved. He felt like the President having to give a big speech. His words, not mine.

We told Mom first. She opened a gift she thought was a thank you for all the painting she helped me with, but it was a leopard apron we made with Nonna on it which means grandma in Italian. It also had baby cookie cutters and the pregnancy test in it. Right before she opened it she saw Clay's nervous, overwhelmed face and thought he didn't approve of what we were giving her so she got nervous. It took a minute for both of them to relax and enjoy the news. It was priceless. You would have thought it was Clay who was just finding out for the first time too but we found out a few days ago. Then we all discussed baby names because that part didn't stress Clay out! :)

Mom and I left and decided to veto our original plans and go tell Kebby, Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw. We met Kebby in a parking lot to pick her up to eat and I showed her paint swatches of pinks and blues and asked her what color we should paint the last room in the house (the bedroom closest to ours) and she looked up immediately and said "you're pregnant!!!" She knew.

We told my Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw in the same way and Paw-Paw kept saying the colors were ugly (which they aren't really the paint colors we will choose, no worries) and Maw-Maw knew immediately.

It was so much fun! Felt like Christmas.

We are making both sets of parents grandparents for the first time and our grandparents great grandparents. Super excited!

I was dying to tell Nick last night but we couldn't get him and he held a press conference that didn't go over well so there was more drama later that night so he called me this morning and I three-wayed (yes! three-wayed!) in Mom so she could hear and we told him he was now "Uncle Nick." He was super excited and already thought the Baby Swartz should be named after him!

If the baby is a girl we have: Lola Swartz
If the baby is a boy we have: Cash Swartz

I love Lola Lou after my grandmother and we have some ideas for middle names with Cash. But for now the name is Baby Swartz until we find out.

A few weeks and we will have our first ultrasound!!

Love y'all!

Love,
Little Momma' Swartz