Well, I think it's probably best for me to start by apologizing for taking so long to update all of you on my latest news. There is definitely a good reason I haven't been blogging for the past few months.
Right around the time school started, I received some news that has been pretty darn hard to keep a secret for so long!
I'm going to have a BABY!!
My husband and I are so excited!
It's been so fun sharing it in all different ways with our very large and loving community.
We told our families pretty soon after we found out, but decided to wait a little while before sharing with our school and church communities. This gave me plenty of time to go on pinterest and find some cute ways to break the news.
Here is how we decided to share with our co-workers:
I strategically placed this by the entrance of our staff meeting. You know teachers can't resist deep fried sugar at the end of a long day so it was a pretty safe bet everyone was gonna make a stop by the baked goods before getting settled in for our meeting.
It was so much fun to sit and watch everyones reactions!
A few weeks later I shared the news with my students. I decided to "dress up" for halloween and chose a costume idea that would be slightly hard for them to recognize.
The idea was totally lost on them! Which was kinda funny.
Then to break the news, I had them sit on the carpet and told them we were going to play a game of telephone. I put dashes on the board and left them blank. After I gave the class each word, I wrote it on the board and let them try and decipher the code. It wasn't until the final word (baby) that they started to get really excited!
I was able to film their reactions to the last word and it's pretty cute to see how quickly they figure it out!
*I mention my "unspoken" in the video.
Basically, my class and I have prayer requests that we write on the board and pray for each week. I told my class around the time I found out I was pregnant that I had an unspoken prayer request, which means it's important but to private to share the details. They were really curious what it could be, but I told them we had to wait and keep praying. About a week before I was planning to tell them the news, I mentioned that I would share what my unspoken prayer request was-which actually built the suspense a little bit more.
It was a fun segway into making my announcement.
Finally (after a few more weeks) we decided make it public and put it on Facebook. I waited until we had called family and friends so we could tell them personally.
Here is our announcement:
*My first names Abbie and my husband's name is Brian so I thought this was a fun idea.
It's not my original idea (you can guess where I found it!), but I hadn't seen any of our friend use it so it felt original to me.
We decided to do the photoshoot at an old one room school house (where we took our engagement pics) and I couldn't be happier with how it turned out!
Now that I'm heading into my second trimester (next week), I should be feeling a lot more energy and be able to re-join the blogosphere.
Thanks for stopping by!
