We are Prego!

On October 18, Kip's birthday, we went over to my mom's house so we could go to dinner. I was off from work that day so Kip and I had gone to get him a new smart phone. We waited until I was 9 weeks along to tell my mom because I didn't want her to have the pressure of keeping it a secret for very long. I saw an idea online to take a picture with one person holding a sign that says "we are" and the other holding a jar of "Prego" spaghetti sauce. I thought it was funny and a clever way to announce our big news so we took some pictures using the smile detector on my camera (which captured some really funny expressions).

Anyway, back to Kip's birthday... we went to mom's house and I had a stack of photos of my cheerleaders but had stuck the "we are Prego" pictures in the middle of the stack, along with a picture of my 9 week belly. As soon as we got there I told her to look at the pictures and Kip pretended to play with his new phone (really he was videoing her reaction). She flipped through the stack for what seemed like forever, asking questions about the different cheerleaders along the way. Finally, she got to the first picture of me and Kip and said, "What is this?" I said "I don't know, what does it say?" She read it again and I wish I could describe the expression on her face (I would post the video but I don't think she would appreciate that). She sort of looked like one of those funny animal pictures on greeting cards that have huge eyes! I told her to keep flipping through the stack. She got to the 9 week picture, was shocked, and ran out of the room to collect herself.

It was a priceless reaction!