Our Honeymoon/Babymoon Plans

Just wanted to say ¡Hola!

We are writing from Punta Cana, Dominican Republic!!! Just wanted to let everyone know we got here safely and had a great first day!! For those of you that don't know...we originally had decided in January to FINALLY go on our honeymoon this year.... then we found out in mid-February we were pregnant so now it has turned into a Honeymoon/Babymoon! We were scheduled to go to the Riviera Maya in Mexico, but then the whole SWINE FLU thing came about and we got LOTS of advice to NOT GO to Mexico...so after 3 hours at our travel agents a couple weeks ago we decided to go to a sister resort to the one we had originally planned to go to in Mexico...so here we are at Dreams in the Dominican Republic!!!

We actually arrived yesterday at 3pm...we had quite a ride from the airport to the resort...about an hour. We drove through the little towns and really saw the "real" Domican Republic. We arrived and were lucky enough to have gotten upgraded to a Preferred Member which basically means VIP for the whole vacation!!! Anyways that is the start of our vacation. Tomorrow we are going to Altos de Chavon a little town to explore and sight-see. When we get back we will head to the spa for a couple massage and facial. I will write more later....gonna go to the beach for a Couples Bonfire and then to bed for an early start tomorrow! ¡Buenas Noches!

(I promise to post pictures later...but you can see some on my facebook or myspace!)

How we announced...

I hope everyone enjoyed the video on the parents! After we told our parents and immediate family we wanted to tell everyone else but I wanted to wait until atleast after our first appointment when I would be closer to 12 wks (and closer to the end of my 1st trimester). Since our newest addition to our family (baby Laci Claire) was born on Feb.17th we were going to have a welcome party for her. Beth said it would be okay for me to announce our pregnancy to the extended family then. So I decided I would use her kids...lol...I made them all shirts that said "I'm going to be a Big Cousin" and on the back it said "October 2009". Here is a picture of the front of their shirts:

Here is the back of the shirts:
It actually took everyone a while to figure out what this meant...lol...but after a while everyone did get it! Lolo (my grandfather) took a little bit longer than everyone else. After everyone had figured it out everyone was laughing and clapping and he just clapped along with everyone else not knowing what happened. Then Jacqueline found him in the other room and here is the video of him FINALLY figuring it out (probably about 8 minutes after):




It was funny...so now all of our family knew and it was time for all our friends to know. For the friends of ours that lived far away we called and told them the news. Everyone was sooo excited!!! For some of our closer friends we had another Welcome party for Laci and most of them were invited so we did the same thing with the kids and their shirts. We loved to see all of our family and friends reactions! Here is another video of us telling our college friends Sam, Ellery and Laurel at our church's crab feed. It's a little hard to hear b/c music is playing, but you can definitely see their reactions:



We also took Grandad(David's grandfather) out when day for lunch and a visit and we were able to tell him at his favorite restaurant Baker's Square. We had so much fun spreading our good news and feel very blessed that we have so many family and friends to share this blessing with!

I'll try and get some appointment updates next time and info about our Babymoon/Honeymoon that we have coming up!!!

How it all began...

Ok so obviously....we all know how babies come to be. This is our story of how we found out we were pregnant! I actually didn't have any symptoms but was just having weird periods which I made an appointment to see a doctor for. Well the first weekend in February we had our friends Ny and Jr come up to (finally!) visit us! Lol...so I knew we may go out for some drinks and since my period was being really weird I decided to take a pregnancy test...just in case. We didn't have any at home and since we were at Beth's house I asked to borrow one of hers. She didn't want me taking it while we were at her house because she says she gets sad when it comes out negative. So we took it home and while we were getting ready for Ny and Jr to arrive we were cleaning up and David reminds me to take the test. So I go pee on the stick not thinking anything of it and it came out POSITIVE! Well it was a digital preg. test so it actually said PREGNANT. First thought in my mind was "What?!? This can't be right?" So I showed David, while I was shaking, and told him to go get four more pregnancy test......but of course I was overreacting and he came back with two more...I took them both and this is what we got:
I was in pretty much in a state of shock...it was a SURPRISE to us! So at 12:30am I called Beth to tell her and of course she was very excited!!! A little bit later Ny an Jr got to our house and I was still not quite myself. We decided to tell them by leaving the pregnancy tests in the bathroom they would be using. As we were giving them the tour of the house we open the door to the bathroom and... Ny just stared at them and didn't want to look. She knew I had played a trick on David before ( for April Fools Day I had Beth pee on a stick so it came out preg and gave it to David...lol...it was hilarious!!!) but I kept trying to tell her it was for real this time! So after a minute or so of going back and forth they knew what we did...WE ARE PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!

I wanted to take a blood test the next day but of course it was the weekend and it was closed...I had to wait until Monday, but I took the test and we got the call that night that it was official!!! After the shock and surprise had worn off we were soooooo excited!!! We are going to have a BABY!!!!! We wanted to wait little while until we told everyone...but we did want to tell our immediate family b/c we just couldn't keep it in! =) We told our sisters and brothers about a week before we told our parents. We decided to tell our parents on Valentine's Day since that was the closest holiday. Below is the video of both sets of parents on Valentine's Day. The first video is the Roses we gave them a card a put a picture of an early ultrasound I had done. We told them to meet us at Beth's that morning for breakfast because we had a little present for them! (little now but growing bigger everyday!) The next is the Berrys, we gave them a picture frame that said "I love Grandpa" with the ultrasound in it and a bib that said "Grandma's Sunshine". Hope you enjoy their reactions as much as we did!!!

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