I am waiting until my second trimester since we told everyone early last time and it didn't stick. But I am telling my mom since my hubby works out of state she's my support system.
I wish I saw your logo before I told DH, as he's a big gamer also! I took my test in the morning and had to wait all day to tell him because I wanted to see his face! We ended up telling DD the same night because I wanted someone to be excited with (DH has a lot going on at work, is in the last 4 weeks of college, and he always takes time to process big news before I can talk about it alot). My dad's bday was today, so we told my family today while everyone was together, we'll tell DH's family next week when we get together for a memorial. I know both are early, but I'd rather tell everyone when they are together then make the announcement over and over. FB and such will wait, but I don't see the point in hiding it (for us) as I'm an open book anyway and it's nature, what happens happens.
For our second, I bought a Big Brother shirt, and he wore it on Father's Day, so that's how I told hubby. Took a picture of DS in it and sent it out to everyone else.
This time, hubs knew I was taking the test. Kids had to go in with me for my yearly checkup, which didn't happen, just turned into a confirmation appointment, so they found out. For the family, I'm thinking either something on Father's Day, or DS's birthday in a couple weeks. For everyone else, I have a friend working on a pair of crocheted rainbow Chuck Taylor style booties (since all of us except DH have Chucks). I'm going to put our shoes on different steps of our stairs, take a picture, and edit our birthdays and guess date onto it.
We took our moms out on Mother's Day and bought them expensive jewelry. And then when we got back into the car we gave the decorated boxes that where blue and purple that had a cute card candy and a grandmother necklace in them. They started to cry. With my father in law we gave him an early Father's Day gift yesterday. A picture frame for an ultrasound that said "your gonna be a grandpa baby Johnson coming February 2016". He also cried (he never crys)
I had a picture we had taken this weekend. I showed it to my fiancé and said "the thing I love the most about this picture is that there are three of us in it" he was so excited. We can't wait!!
For a pick me up I told my mom and her husband who is dying from cancer. They are both excited and he says it's a reason I keep fighting so he can see the baby when it's born.
With my first, the only craving I ever had was for a whopper from burger king. So he will be getting a BK gift card and a Baby Ruth... Assuming my bfp gets darker and I'm not imagining things?
Hubby and I were TTC for four years so he was just as anxious as I was for me to pee on a stick! So no cute telling the hubs for me, he was the one counting down the two min! We were very open about our infertility struggles and treatment so waiting until the 12th week to break the news just in case we loose the baby is just not possible; everyone who cares about us is just as emotionally invested as we are so I am making a video of the ICSI process from the day we started to our first ultrasound (well, with a baby in there) next week! We've told a white lie to put everyone off our scent and then we are going to email them the video next week! I'm stupid excited about it. It's hard to come up with fun announcement ways when your separated by the Atlantic Ocean!
I gave my husband a card in which I wrote one of our inside jokes. Of course, since he didn't know the punchline (that I'm pregnant) he didn't get it at first.
We haven't told our families yet, and I'm bursting at the seams. Plus I now face the conundrum of waiting until after the US at 8wks, or telling them beforehand so we can confirm our family medical histories before the appointment. Ack!
I asked my artist grandfather to paint us a 'First Family Portrait' to display (titled as such) for the announcement to friends and family we'll make at a gathering we had prearranged for Father's Day. I'm super excited and grateful to get to have a legit painting of 'the three of us' already!
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I busted in on hubby in the shower to show him the stick. Nothing fancy haha, maybe next time! We told our parents, grandparents & siblings already. We are all a pretty tight knit group. PLUS my BILs GF is due in August and MY brothers fiancée is due in October. We will have 3 little cousins all within about 6 months!
We told our families we wanted a family picture, but we set the camera on video and said, "One...two...three...We're having a baby! " So we can keep their reactions and show our kiddo how excited everyone was. It was a huge surprise because we'd tried for 19 months, and a week before we found out, we announced to everyone we'll pursue adoption when we can. They didn't expect this news at all!
My poor H didn't get anything fancy -I was way too excited. As soon as I saw the positive I found him in the kitchen so I just stood behind him with the stick up as he was looking for something to eat. He turned around read it and had the cutest reaction.
As far as my mom and his, we're either going to get onesies that say something about grandma or I really like the PPs idea about the "Share a Coke" bottles.
For FIL, we're going to get him a fathers' day card and mail it to him (he lives out of state) that says something about grandpa on there.
I put DD in a shirt that said "big sister" to tell DH. We texted a pic to our parents, since we got pretty crappy responses when we called last time. But that still didn't go over too well. We have just been telling the friends we want to share it with for now.
I had to tell work last time around 7 weeks due to bad morning sickness. This time, I'm trying to see how long we can make it...
I had suspected that i was pregnant immediately! We waited until it was time to test and my dh knew that i was taking a test. The 2nd line was so faint that my dh was afraid to get excited but i was convinced! A few days later, tested again and both lines were dark so that helped then after urine samples and blood work at the dr confimed, my dh was involved the whole time with all updates
We took my mil&fil to breakfast last weekend and let them know but expressed that it's still top secret. Having dinner with my sis in law and her hubs tonight and telling them. Planning on telling my dad next week.
For the early family - we're just telling them when we see them.
My brother and his fam r living out of state and my sis and her hubs live out of town. . Waiting for all of us siblings to be together end of July to tell everyone in person and still trying to think of a cute way to share the news!
Won't share on social media until a little into 2nd tri - i want to share in a cute way but have no idea!
*when my sister shared news that she was preg w/ 1st - they brought over a photo album of family pix that they had made for us up look through. The last pic was the u/s! For when she shared her 3rd - she put a "big brother" shirt on the youngest (now middle) child. So cute but i honestly just thought he was wearing a hand me down from his big bro! Haha
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We haven't told our families yet, and I'm bursting at the seams. Plus I now face the conundrum of waiting until after the US at 8wks, or telling them beforehand so we can confirm our family medical histories before the appointment. Ack!
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We took my mil&fil to breakfast last weekend and let them know but expressed that it's still top secret. Having dinner with my sis in law and her hubs tonight and telling them. Planning on telling my dad next week.
For the early family - we're just telling them when we see them.
My brother and his fam r living out of state and my sis and her hubs live out of town. . Waiting for all of us siblings to be together end of July to tell everyone in person and still trying to think of a cute way to share the news!
Won't share on social media until a little into 2nd tri - i want to share in a cute way but have no idea!
*when my sister shared news that she was preg w/ 1st - they brought over a photo album of family pix that they had made for us up look through. The last pic was the u/s! For when she shared her 3rd - she put a "big brother" shirt on the youngest (now middle) child. So cute but i honestly just thought he was wearing a hand me down from his big bro! Haha