Telling the Parents.... ;)

Cody and I decided to leave last Thursday and make a whirlwind tour to tell our parents the awesome news!! Here is the run down:

Thursday:

I woke up and BAM - my back was jacked up. I thought just awesome.... this is going to be a long 9 months!! I was really sick Thursday morning too. We didn't leave the house until about 10 am. We stopped by McDonald's and I ate a hash brown and it was delicious!! We left there and headed to Knoxville. My back was killing me the whole trip. I was texting back and forth with Jena so she could coral my parents for the big surprise! When we were about 20 minutes away, Jena sent me a text and said "mom knows something is up" My stomach sank and I cried. I wanted to tell her in person!! So, after all the drama of me thinking mom knew.... she didn't! Cody and I showed up and told her that I had Court the next day and he was just along for the ride since he didn't have to work ;) She smiled and bought it, YES!!!!! So we sat there and hung out until the guys came home. It killed me to sit there and not tell my mom, but I really wanted to tell them together. So, the guys made it home and showered and then as we were getting ready to leave for dinner I told my parents that a client made a really sweet card for me and I wanted them to see it. I handed it to mom:



They were so excited!!!! I literally thought mom would have a heart attack! Sweet Bailee said "No one cried when we said MY baby was coming" She was a little confused why everyone was so hysterical when we said we were pregnant. We made it out the door to dinner and had a great night. Bailee said later that night as we were playing the quiet game on the ride home that "Those pregnant girls up front can NOT loose because they have babies in the belly!!" She is such a sweetie! She drew me a few pictures that night too. Here they are:


Ha! Bailee made this picture of "Nana" who was crying!! ;)




Friday:

We woke up and got ready to leave. We made a stop with mom and Bailee at WalMart to buy Bailee her big girl bike for graduating from pre-school. She was so excited to ride her bike without training wheels. From there we set off to tell Cody's parents. Who knew what this day had in store!!! We left Knoxville at 12:30pm for what should have been a 5 1/2 hour drive..... well, 12 hours later we made it to Montgomery! There was an overturned gas tanker 45 miles away from his parents house! If we would have followed the GPS ummm, hmmmm Cody Berry, we would have avoided the mess. But, it is what it is. We arrived at five minutes to midnight. We were both anxious and wanted to tell his parents. Miraculously, they were awake when we arrived so Cody handed them tickets to concert here in Nashville for January 10, 2012 - they were thanking us - thinking cool - then Cody handed them their back stage pass - our picture at the ultrasound and his mom freaked! His dad was so lost saying "What, what?" haha! see picture of their "concert" ticket:

We didn't get a picture with Cody's parents....makes me sad!! BUT, we did have these from a few weekends earlier - Mother's Day! (Technically we WERE pregnant then and just didn't know it yet ;))






Saturday:

We got up and left the house by 9am heading to Panama City to see Ross and tell him the news. I was exhausted and felt SO sick. I didn't even shower! I rode to the beach in my pajamas! Nice Jaclyn...way to keep it classy! Once we arrived we checked in the hotel and stopped by to see Ross for a few minutes before leaving for lunch. (Yes, I managed to change clothes at this point!) Ross was really excited! We left for lunch and I said "I think I can eat" Boy did I ever!!! I demolished a pound of crab legs, baked potato and cole slaw. Then got a small serving of frozen yogurt too! I felt so much better after eating. We headed back to Ross' house and I sacked out in the guest room for 3.5 hours while they visited. We went back to the hotel and I showered (finally, yuck) and went back to bed.

Sunday:

I was up bright and early at 6am! I sat on the balcony and read some of my pregnancy books before everyone moved around! Jackie came and joined me and we chatted. We all showered and headed over to Ross' for breakfast. We ate and then I took a nap and we left there at 12:30 and headed back to Montgomery. When we got there at 4pm, I felt awful. We went through the drive through to get me some chicken nuggets and I couldn't eat them. I felt so bad that I laid down for a little bit. We left Montgomery about 4:30 and headed to Nashville. It was a great trip, no traffic at all ;) We traveled four days and was in the car 26.5 hours!! But, I would not have changed a thing! Yay!!