Telling the Family

We wanted to be positive about being pregnant so we used the other pregnancy test we had bought the night before. The second one was positive as well!! We were so excited all over again! Kyle wanted to tell our friends Jordan and Kaitlyn Flake that we were pregnant so bad during church. He didn’t want to wait any longer to tell our parents. Our original plan was to tell our parents when we went up to Blanding (where Kyle’s family lives) with my mom’s family. We were going to play Pictionary with everyone while we were there. On Kyle’s turn, he was going to draw an egg, then a ‘tadpole’ than me (as a stick figure)! Since Kyle wanted to tell our family that Sunday, we decided to do Cell Phone Pictionary instead! We selected all of our immediate family members and sent the first picture!

My brother Brady immediately texted back saying ‘Jamie’s Pregnant, we win’. We both laughed about how quickly he guessed it!

Then we sent the next picture. It was of an egg. The next was of a ‘tadpole’. The fourth picture was of the egg and tadpole together!

My sister Cari called us and said ‘Are you serious right now? Are you pregnant!?’ We both said YES! ‘She gave us a big congratulations! We talked for a minute or two, but told her there were still people who hadn’t figured it out yet so we were going to send more pictures! My mom called soon after and was so excited to hear the news!!! She asked how far along we were. We we’re 4 weeks along!!! Kyle and I had kept track of when we could have gotten pregnant, and we are pretty sure it was the 5^th or 7^th of May!

Everyone was starting to catch on and start calling. We called Kyle’s family once they guessed and spoke to them for a while. Emily was talking to them on speaker phone and we were on speaker phone so we told her while we were talking to Kyle’s mom, dad, sister Jenera, and brother Terrance! Then Brady called to see if he was right. He and Danielle congratulated us. Then we called my Dad. He was so happy to hear that we were expecting!! He said ‘That is fantastic news!’

It was great to share our joy with our whole family! We were so happy to bring a child into our family!