Visit to Md and Va..

Well we finally made it to the weekend where we were telling the rest of the family, all of my family basically! So I got to kick off the festivities on Friday by telling Mom. I had been holding off til i could tell her in person and it seemed like it was taking forever! So i met her at Aunt Pat's to pick up the kids cause we were taking them to Md with us. I stole her outside for a few minutes and finally got to let her in on our secret. She's of course THRILLED for us and cant wait for next summer. I felt so much better once i finally got to tell her...been a long time coming.
Then it was on to the long road trip to Maryland to tell Dad, the Curry gang, Grandma Curry, Dina and Grandma Curran.

We arrive to Dad's around 7, hang out for a little, then decide its time to do gifts and birthday cake. We all gather around him at the table and he opens his presents. Worked out that he ended up opening ours last. The card read "Happy Birthday Grandpa - love Todd, Aimee and Baby ?" Of course Dad goes on the first thought thinking i'm making fun of his age so he reads the card outloud as "Happy Birthday Old Fart". Lovely. so then he gets to where i signed it and it finally catches on. Then everyone got it and everyone was happy and started asking all the questions. One big sigh of relief. Off to bed to get up for our big group shot in the morning with all the kids that i've been waiting for for years. Here's how that one turned out btw...

Saturday after the pictures we were off to Virginia to visit the rest of the fam. We show up around 3 or so. Get settled then i start to tell Grandma and Dina about the last time we were at Kel's and how she sent Justin in to change Taylor and she came out with a little shirt on that said I'm the big sister! so they both of course got real excited for her and asked when she was due. I said "a couple weeks after me" and i turned around to get something out of my purse. Grandma says 'what do you mean after you?' and Dina says 'after her birthday'. So then i just start laughing to myself thinking NO ONE GETS IT THIS WEEKEND and its just pretty funny. So then Grandma says 'oh let me show you this plaque i just bought for my kitchen' and Dina is in the background freaking out going 'wait wait...so are you being serious or no??' I said Yes...I am being serious, I am due 2 weeks before Kelly. She continues to say "No you're not" for about 3 minutes straight. I asked if i needed to get the sonogram to prove it to her and of course she said yes. So i had to run out to the car, get the sonogram and show it to her. Cracked me up. So again of course they were both very thrilled and spent the next few hours asking questions and going over ideas and thoughts and all that fun stuff...here is a picture from that night:

All in all a great weekend of course. We got back home Sunday night just in time for half time, went to visit Aunt Pat and Uncle Vince on Monday night to complete the end of our cycle of people we were telling in person so all is done and now its time to relax and just let the word spread!