Today we share our wonderful news with family and friends. Its been a long three months of keeping Sweet Pea a secret, but now we can share it with the world :)
A few days before Christmas, we booked a family photo at a photo studio with Dennard, Myself, Nya and our first baby ultrasound. Our first family picture; awwww!!! ha ha
This was going to be our way of announcing our wonderful news in a unique and fun way.
It was our plan to somehow present this photo to our families on Christmas and see how long it would take for them to catch on we were expecting.
How we told my family:
Christmas Eve I popped over to my dad`s after dinner to share our baby news and let him in on my plans to tell the family Christmas AM.
My plan was to ask my dad for his help in executing my announcement plans to the rest of the family so that no one would suspect anything.
Note: All of those close to us know that we always wanted our children 3 years apart. We knew that friends and family would probably be expecting an announcement sometime around Christmas, so we wanted to at least throw our families off
My dad and I were sitting at the dinning room table chatting and I nonchalantly pulled out the envelop with our family Christmas photo enclosed. I informed him that it was our annual Christmas card and that we just got them printed.
He opened the envelop, starred at the picture and commented on how nice a picture it was. He at first didn't read the print at the bottom of the card or notice the ultrasound picture in Dennard`s hand in the picture. lol After looking at the picture for some time, he asked what Dennard was holding. I asked him to read the bottom of the card which read:
The best gifts in life aren`t found under the tree, our family is growing from a family of three. Baby Bynoe arriving July 2015.
Once he read that, it clicked! He looked up with a big smile and said `well congratulations sweetheart!!` got up and gave me a great big hug. He then said `Jenn had a feeling you were pregnant; she figured you would be announcing a pregnancy this Christmas!`. lol
I was shocked; how could Jenn have known!! lol He went on to explain our whole 3 year plan and that Christmas would be around the time that we would probably be expecting. Call it sisters intuition or just great calculating on her part, but she was dead on! ha ha
I told him about my uncertainty in how I was going to give everyone the pictures on Christmas without them suspecting something. His words to me exactly were `leave it up to me...ill figure something out! I`ll come up with a way to do it!`.
And that was that; I left the plans in my dads hands and went home excitingly anticipating the big announcement Christmas Day.
Christmas morning we all met at my dad`s house like we do every year; my mom, my sisters and their family`s. Before we even got to opening the first of the gifts, my dad came out with a magic trick book and began to explain this neat book he had and how he had a trick he wanted to try on all of us. I, like everyone else, was totally in the dark on his plans and thought he was really trying out a new trick on us. lol
He had Ryan, my nephew, pick a card out from a deck of cards and pass one out to each of my sisters, my mom and myself. He told us to memorize the card and then had my nephew recollect the cards from us. In exchange he gave us each an envelop. My dad instructed each of us to open the envelopes to see if our card was inside. Once the envelop was in my hand, Dennard and I looked at each other and realized in that moment `this is not a trick! this is our announcement`. We played dumb and played along opening our envelopes.
Cheryl was the first to open her envelop and let out a shrill. She immediately got up and congratulated us and gave us a big hug. Not even half a second later after Cheryl`s shrill, Jenn shouted out `I knew it!!!`and immediately came over to us with tears in her eyes and gave us both a hug. My mom on the other hand wasn't quite sure what was going on. She was looking at the same picture in her hand as everyone else, but wasn`t sure what was causing such a reaction. She said `Devin, what`s going on!`. I told her to read the print on the bottom of her card. She didn't have her glasses with her, so she wasn`t able to read the print very well. As she was squinting to read it, she said `what`s it say....`. Jenn at this time shouted out `she`s pregnant!!!!!`. My mom immediately started crying. It was so sweet.
Through tears of joy she said `Oh Devin!!!!! Im so happy for you guys!!!!`. She got up and gave each of us a big hug and went back to starring at her picture asking questions along with my sisters on how far along, when we found out, etc. She began to explain how she was looking at the picture and wondering at first what Dennard was holding in his hands; while she was looking at it, everyone started reacting to the picture and she was confused. lol
It was a very special moment for us :) Everyone was pleasantly surprised by our announcement and over joyed with our news.
A Christmas we will always remember :)
Telling Dennard`s Family
Dennard really liked Nya`s `Best Sister Ever` shirt and wanted to have her wear the shirt to his family`s house on Christmas to announce our special news.
He wanted to see how long it would take everyone to notice her shirt and catch on that we were expecting.
We walked into his parents house and all the ladies were sitting around the dinning table while the men sat in front of the TV; minus Dennard`s younger brother Drew who was in the basement with their cousin.
I took Nya`s jacket off and she immediately went running in to greet everyone. She went over and sat on Dennard`s brother Duane`s girlfriends lap, who in seconds noticed Nya`s shirt. I saw Kaiden starring at it and then looked around to see if anyone else saw it. She made eye contact with me and I played it off like I didn`t notice and kept chatting. I wanted Dennard`s mom to noticed the shirt first, so I didn't want to say anything. I watched as she kept looking at Nya`s shirt and then said out loud `I like Nya`s shirt!!!`.
The table went silent for a second. I said `Marita, did you see Nya`s shirt`. Kaiden turned Nya around and faced her to Marita, Dennard`s mom. She looked at the shirt and said `Its nice`.
I chuckled and said `did you read Nya`s shirt...`. She looked at it again and said `Its a nice shirt`.
All the ladies at this point saw and read the shirt and were laughing. His mom hadn`t realized that it was announcing Nya as being a big sister. She looked at it again and I said `Congratulations!!! We`re pregnant!!!!`. Just then, Kaiden says allowed `And so are we!!`.
I wasn`t sure if it was a joke, if she was serious, what was going on. lol Dennard and I were totally taken back! The table broke out into a frenzy of laughter and confusion.
As it ends up, Duane and his girlfriend are expecting a baby two weeks before us.
We are due July 6th and they are due the second last week of June.
Looks like it will be a busy summer for Dennard`s family! lol
Our Christmas Card/Announcement Photo
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