CLICK HERE FOR FREE BLOGGER TEMPLATES, LINK BUTTONS AND MORE! »

Friday, December 29, 2006

Going HOME for CHRISTMAS!

We flew home for Christmas the morning of the 23rd. We were beyond excited to go home and see everyone and share our news with them! We knew it was early to tell people (7 weeks) but we so badly wanted to share our news with our family and friends and we definitely wanted to do it in person. We weren't sure when we were going to make it up to the UP next so we knew we wanted to do it over Christmas. Plus, what a great Christmas present to give everyone!

SHARING OUR NEWS
December 23rd
We arrived in Marquette around noon. That evening we were celebrating the Truscott Family Christmas. Brad and I had decided that we wanted to share our news that night when we were all together. I wasn't exactly sure how I was going to make it through "cocktail hour/hours" without drinking but Brad was pretty smart. My Aunty Susie had made me a chocolate Bailey's drink on ice and when no one was looking Brad switched my glass with one that he had made (chocolate milk over ice). It worked great and no one caught on. We had an excellent turkey and ham dinner and then moved on to the gift exchange. After all the gifts were open, we gave my mom and dad a gift from us. They each got a book (a mom book and a dad book) about how special they are. Each book had a page in it that talked about being Grandparents and Brad and I wrote a little saying in each book about how they've inspired us to be great parents and and how we know they will be wonderful grandparents. They figured it out and started crying right away, they were so happy. Then chaos broke out and everyone started crying, yelling, hugging, and jumping around - especially Vanessa and Uncle Mike. It was so special and a moment we will never forget.

Christmas Day
We woke up early Christmas morning (Bailey got us all up) and came downstairs to a room full of presents. Once again, Santa had spoiled us all. That afternoon we went to my Uncle Lowell's for Christmas with the Anderson's. There was lots of commotion there (as to be expected with a big family - I love it) but my brother Brad got everyone's attention and said he had an announcement to make. Everyone got real quiet and had no clue what kind of announcement Brad was going to make. He then told everyone that he was going to be an Uncle. Everyone was very excited for us and I think a little relieved because they weren't sure what Brad was going to say. We also found out that day that our cousin Dustin proposed to Emily that morning so the Anderson's had a lot to celebrate!

December 26th
This morning we drove up to Hancock to stay at Amy and Packi's house. Lesley and Jeff were in town for one more day so we had made plans for us all to get together. We told Amy and Packi first, before Packi went to his hockey game. Then a big group of us went out to the Ambassador for dinner. After dinner we went back to Amy's and there we told Lesley and Jeff (expecting a little boy the end of Feb.) and also Tim and Sheryl Givens (expecting twin girls in Feb). Everyone was very happy for us and it felt so good to share the news with our friends. We are so glad that it worked out that we were able to make it to Hancock over the holidays and got to tell them in person.

December 27th
Today we headed to Wausau to surprise the Spindler's. We called Bryan and told him that my mom and dad were coming with us and to make dinner reservations for all of us (but not tell his parents). The Spindler's weren't expecting us at all so they were very shocked when they answered the door and there stood the 4 of us. After we went in and talked for a little while, Brad told them our news. They were very excited and shocked for the second time that day. Then we all went out to dinner to celebrate. It was very nice to have both of our parents together - it had been a long time. We didn't make it back to Marquette til 1:30 in the morning but it was all worth it.

December 29th
After sharing our news with our family and friends and a week full of excitement it was time to fly back to Indy. We had so much fun being home and it was so wonderful to have shared our news with our loved ones.

No comments: