Mihelich Family Reunion

This week was the Mihelich Family Reunion in Fort Collins. My mom's wish for the reunion was that "Kathy and John would have an offer on their house in Ohio and that Jesse and I would be expecting". She's a pretty good wisher :)
We drove down in the afternoon on Wednesday for dinner at my parent's house that evening. As everyone arrived at the house I had to decide how I wanted to tell everyone our good news. It turned out mom had already told Aunt Kathy and Uncle John. When John came in he gave me a hug and whispered "I hear congratulations are in order". While we were outside eating dinner my mom kinds of spread the word to the cousins Jason, Corie, and Jeff.
My grandfather and his sisters with their spouses were eating inside. After dinner was finished I went in to find an opening to announce the good news. Jim and Bill had both left the table at this point but my grandparents, Helen, and Elsie were still sitting there talking. I waited for a lull in the conversation and announced, "Jesse and I have some exciting news to share . . . we are expecting". Everyone was so excited and grandpa got right up to give me a hug. He teared up as he shared his excitement and congratulations. There was hugs and congratulations all around and I staying inside talking about the estimated due date, and all the other plans to this point.
We joined my grandparents and Great Aunts and Uncles at New Belgium Brewery Thursday afternoon. Everyone (excpet me of course) enjoyed the beer sampling. I really enjoyed the cherry mango sparkling water they had. Thursday night was dinner at Corie and Jason's house which was also very delicious and enjoyable. It turned into a beautiful evening (after a hot day) and we enjoyed sitting outside enjoying each other's company.
We headed back to Denver Friday morning to be around for all Bonnie's festivities. We had a great trip and love getting to see the family. We are so excited for Aunt Kathy and Uncle John to get moved to Colorado this fall.

First Post

I always have said to myself - when we start a family I will start a blog so family and friends and keep up with us. I have always really enjoyed reading the blogs of my friends so here goes.

The News
We got the good news on Saturday morning. I told myself I could take a pregnancy test first thing Saturday morning. I awoke around 7:30 am and of course could not go back to sleep - less than 3 minutes later I had the news. I brought the test to Jesse (who was still sleeping in bed) and showed him. I think it was a bit of a shoking way to wake up . . .
I was not shocked - I knew right away before any test could tell me. Two weeks ago we joined my family and BrewFest in Fort Collins, that morning I woke up feeling a bit off a little nauseous and super hungry. The following days were all the same so by the time I had the test to confirm it I had been feeling different for two weeks. Although not shocked I was very happy and even a little relieved (yes! not creating symptoms in my mind!).

Telling the Family
After showing Jesse, I started frantically trying to get a good picture of my positive test to share with my family. I emailed it to my mother, and sister and texted them "check your email". My mom got it right away texting back "omg" then calling. As expected she was so excited. Molly called and talked to Jesse while I was in the shower around 9am and I called her back after that. She was thrilled as well, although disappointed she could not share her excitement on Facebook since we are not yet sharing with everyone.

Jesse's parents came over later in the day and Jesse shared to news with them as well. Then a crazy day of packing before heading to the beach for a family vacation with Jesse's extended family Sunday.

We arrived at the beach expecting questions from the family, especially since I now eat like a garbage disposal, however, day 1 at the beach was a bit crazy and no questions came. We had some time away day 2 with just Jesse's grandmother so he got a chance to tell her. That night at dinner it was all set for her to ask "when her great-grandchildren were on the way" and Jesse to answer "about 8 months". They were quite surprised and excited for us.

Jesse's 4 year old cousin Jenna came up shortly after and her mom told her that I have a baby in my belly (Jenna has a 2 year old sister so she knows what that means). All the young cousins were hanging out all evening and I heard the talk in their room for part of the evening was "we have a baby cousin coming!"

That is one of the things we are very excited for, Jenna and Laurel both live in Denver. Although they are technically Jesse's cousins we have always played more of and Aunt/Uncle roll in their lives. We are really looking forward to having family around with kids close in age.