indianapoluxe.: telling the family...

hello sweet thing :)

mommy has been so bad about journaling lately. Oops. It has been way too long since I wrote to you. You are now 8 weeks and 4 days young and growing like a weed! Last week you were the size of a blueberry and this week you are already the size of a kidney bean!

so many exciting things have happened in the past few weeks! the most important thing is that we got to announce your arrival to our friends and family! i can't even begin to tell you how excited everyone is to meet you...

daddy and i decided that we wanted our families to be the first to know about you when we got home from italy. i was worried about how i would tell my family because my parents and sisters live in florida and your uncle james and aunt ariel live in nashville, tennessee. i had always dreamed of announcing the big news to everyone at once, but now that we are so spread out i just didn't think that would ever work out. we knew that your nana and poppa were planning and trip to nashville to see uncle james and aunt ariel sometime in the fall, so we decided to drive down and meet them when they came so that we could at least tell them in person. they finally picked a date in october and we knew we were going to have to keep you a secret for about 3 weeks until their trip. it was soooooo hard!!! daddy and i were not supposed to be telling anyone about you but we kept slipping because you are all we can think about all day every day! your daddy told one of his co-workers and your uncle kyle and i told a couple of the girls at work and some man that works at kentucky fried chicken. i just wanted to scream to everyone, "i'm gonna have a baby!!!!"

those 3 weeks crawled by so slowly. every time i talked to one of my friends or family members on the phone it was all i could do not to tell them all about you. finally, it was the weekend before we were supposed to go to tennessee. i was talking on the phone to your aunt laura and she said she was thinking about coming up with nana and poppa! i couldn't believe it!! i was so excited to think that she might get to be there when we told everyone about you but i didn't want to get my hopes up or let her on to anything so i tried to stay calm....and then i called your aunt emily to see if she could get off work and come too! she said she probably could! i couldn't believe it! both your aunts got off work and decided at the last minute to come up to tennessee too! i was so happy when i found out i just cried and cried. everything was working out so perfectly and they didn't even know it!

we were originally planning to tell your daddy's family the day after we got back from our tennessee trip, but the night before we were going to leave, we found out that they were almost all going to be together at your grandma and grandpa's house. your daddy is from a very big family, so we decided to take advantage of having most of them all together to go ahead and share the news about you!

we had made a coffee table book with pictures from our trip to italy and on the last page there was a picture of the positive pregnancy test and mommy pointing at her tummy with a caption that read, "surprise!!!" your daddy gave it to grandma to look at while your aunts all crowded around it in the kitchen. the page before the big surprise page was pictures of us eating breakfast on our last day in italy. you could see your daddy's new mason ring up close in one of the pictures and your aunt kristen said, "kent are you a mason?" your daddy said, "yeah" right as grandma turned the page to the pregnancy test. she realized what it was and her eyes got so big, her mouth dropped open and she just stared at us for a second. then everybody else started realizing what was going on and they all started clapping and yelling at the same time. all i remember is that your aunt kari was standing beside me and she kept saying, "kent's a mason? what's a mason? what's a mason?" as she was clapping kinda slow. she thought everyone was cheering because your daddy was a mason! hahah everyone started hugging me and your daddy and aunt kari just looked so confused while she was clapping. then someone shouted out, "when are you due?" and she finally figured out what was going on. she goes, "oh my word, you're pregnant?" when i nodded yes she gave me a big hug and finally understood what all the fuss was about.

everybody was so so happy for us. they all wanted to know how i was feeling and when we found out about you. they wanted to know if we had names picked out for you and when you would be here. we talked about decorating your nursery and if you would be a boy or a girl. you are going to love having so many aunts, uncles, and cousins to play with :)

the next day we were planning to head to nashville as soon as i got off work. when i went to leave work we discovered that i had a flat tire! i called your daddy to come fix it for me but i recently got a new car and he couldn't get the tire off of it. we had to take it to a tire shop, get it fixed, go drop bella off at the babysitters, go home so your daddy could get a shower and pack...whew! needless to say we got on the road pretty late. we knew we wouldn't get into nashville until around midnight that night and i was disappointed because i knew your nana and poppa would most likely already be in bed when we got there. they were. it was so good to see your aunts and uncle james but it was so hard not to tell them about you that first night. we headed to our hotel and i felt like it was christmas eve or something. i couldn't sleep because i was so excited to tell everyone about you the next morning.

when we woke up we went to breakfast with nana and poppa and then headed over to uncle james and aunt ariel's apartment. we told everyone that we wanted to show them our pictures of italy and gathered everyone together in the living room. nana and poppa held the book and aunt laura and me sat on one side of them while aunt emily and aunt ariel sat on the other side. your uncle james was playing on his computer in the room and your daddy was positioned across the room from us so he could film the big reaction! every time they turned a page, i got more and more nervous for them to see the big reveal. when they finally turned the page, aunt emily shouted out, "pregnancy test!!?!?" and then they all just stared at me. she said, "do you have something to tell us?".....i just looked back at them for a second waiting for it to sink in but they all just stared at me with a blank look on their faces. so i finally pointed to the word "surprise!!!!!" on the page and said "you have to read it!" nana read it really slowly like a question and then she just kept saying, "sarah beth....sarah beth...." your poppa couldn't say anything. he was in shock! haha finally aunt laura gave me a hug and then all i remember is everyone hugging and nana and aunt emily kept crying. your daddy captured the sweetest video of the first few moments. your poppa just kept staring at me with the biggest grin on his face but totally speechless. i remember your aunt laura saying, "i kept staring at the picture but i couldn't understand how you got it to say 'yes'" haha! it was one of the best moments of my entire life. everyone was together and so happy. you are going to love being a part of the newsom bunch. we are so crazy but we love each other so much and we all adore you already.

click here to watch the video...blogger wouldn't load it :(

we told them about the names we had picked out for you. your aunts and uncles loved them but i think they will have to grow on your grandparents a bit. they like much more traditional names and we want to name you something more unique. we went out to lunch at the restaurant where your uncle james is a chef. it's at a beautiful 5 star hotel in downtown nashville and it was so nice!

uncle james announced to the workers there that he was going to be an uncle and they made us the most beautiful dessert! it had the word "congratulations" painted on it in chocolate!

we had been calling you "blueberry" all day because we told everyone that you were the size of a blueberry. it was so neat because they brought out our dessert and it just happened to have blueberries on it! so cute! i can't believe you are that tiny!

afterwards we walked around a little pumpkin patch and just enjoyed spending time together as a family.

we took some fun pictures pointing at mommy's belly!