So, we decided since our families had almost about given up
on us extending our family with some human babies, we decided to give them a
real shocker. We invited mom, dad, Carrie, Carlie, Raylan, Pat, Jamie and her
family and my grandmother Mammy over for dinner in celebration of Pat’s 62nd
birthday. After talks about how on earth we could do this to make it perfect
for EVERYONE, we decided to show a video. Even though I hadn’t said it out
loud yet I was thinking this would be perfect. One day Brad came to me and said
“lets show a video of all my SWAT photos from me at school last summer and at
the end we will throw the sono picture in there”. It was amazing that he
thought of this at the very same time I was already trying to scheme up a theme
for the what will be known as the shocking reveal. Surprisingly Brad emailed me
a rough copy of the video he worked up on his very own for my approval and
suggestions on changes. The video had some minor tweaks that we worked out but
after it was all said and done it was indeed the perfect reveal. The day of the party, March 24th
after everyone arrived we decided FIRST thing was FIRST…we are showing this
video. Holding this in for a month and a half was hard enough you would have
thought a couple more hours would have killed me!! So we gathered everyone in
front of the tube and we played our video. With my heart racing and his palms
sweating we stood there next to each other just waiting for the moment of a
life time, the moment our blessing was announced. We set up our camera to video
the reactions and it was priceless. Tears of joy and laughter, shocking facial
expressions to my poor Mammy, who sat there not sure what was going on thinking
the house was on fire (we had the grill going in the back so that was what she
was smelling and then mixed with screaming she was left to think the house was
on fire).
Needless to say, we will never forget the day of The
Shocking…
Watch the family reaction click here...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or7tKICeVPk
