Labor Day Weekend p2

I left off at arriving at the in-laws Saturday morning. We got up to the door and no one was home. Imagine our surprise. We had gotten up early, and had this amazing surprise planned and no one was home. Figures. The door was unlocked for us though, so we went in and put our stuff away and waiting for his family to return. His brother and wife and their kids plus his other sister all arrived within 10 minutes and then it was just his parents missing. We were told they were helping a neighbor move and would be back within 10 or so minutes, but they wanted Hubs to come say hi because he knew the people. He took the new car and left while I chatted with everyone else and had lunch. Hubby and his parents came back a little while later in the new car and his parents were really excited and surprised for our new car addition. They still had no idea about the baby.

For background. This weekend did not go as planned. We had been planning to reveal our secret for a couple months when we were up there, but only to his immediate family. Not extended. We had this whole scavenger hunt for around the town planned that ended with a balloon gender reveal at the park. Literally 4 days before we drove up we find out his aunt, uncle, other uncle, two cousins, and one boyfriend were all going to be up that weekend too staying at grandma and grandpa’s house next door. By next door I mean, next. Door. Can have a three year old throw a rock from one door to the other and still make contact. There goes our plan. The doors on both houses are revolving when family is up and everyone is just in and out all the time. This kind of ruined my carefully thought out months of preparation. We couldn’t all go run and get in the cars and leave for a while for our hunt without answering questions about what we were doing. So after a bitter two days of wallowing… I reeeaaaallllyy don’t like my plans changed last minute. We decided on an alternative reveal.

Back to the weekend. Now that everyone was back and fixing lunch and hanging out (with no extended family in sight) we brought the box upstairs. Hubs surreptitiously locked the door people might try to open from next door and we brought our surprise to the table. We told his parents it was for them, and we had seen it and immediately thought of them and wanted them to open it. Hubs other brother, wife and their baby weren’t there yet (they already knew about baby) so we said we were filming so they could see later.

Everyone was really really excited and surprised and called us good secret keepers. Ok someone might have used the word ‘liars’ because we were asked about babies last time we saw them a couple weeks ago. We explained everything we knew so far and asked them to keep it a secret for us.

It looks like there will be a part 3 to this saga. I'm tired of typing.