telling the world...

so, after telling our families at the beach, we made them swear to secrecy for at least another month. we wanted to wait until our 12 week appointment, before we spread the word to any extended family, friends, etc... once we had our 12 week appointment that you can read about here, we began working like little elves on our revealing project. we made a stop motion video and sent it out on a dvd that had a note that said:

once the receiver read the note and put the dvd in the player, this is what they saw:

it was so much fun getting the calls throughout the week as different people received the news. Every time our phone rang, we would run to the phone, wondering who found out. we had the best time celebrating with each person as they called with such excitement.