Keeping up with the Jones': Telling the Fam

Well my story of telling my fam is like anyone else's... I mean if you have samples of baby formula sent to your parents address, by coincidence, 3 days before you will actually see them in person to tell them the BIG news, then I guess our story is the same. Let me tell you more.

We're flyin in to Cali Friday and I'm so ready and anxious to tell my family the NEWS!!! (We had already told Z's family because we all know Z can't keep secrets and always has to tell someone!! Which was perfectly fine with me!) So the Weds before we leave I get a phone call from my mom asking, "Are you pregnant?" "I said no, why?" My mom goes on to tell me that she received samples of baby formula at the house addressed to me. I'm thinking who the heck did this??!!! A) I haven't gone to the doc yet B) I haven't filled out any paperwork or anything and then C) I start to think this is Rachel playin a prank. So my mom says "Well don't tell me over the phone.. I want to know in person." And I'm like Mom you're going to be disappointed.

So Allison is the first one we tell because we stayed with her Friday night in LA and decided to drive out to my parents on Saturday. (I didn't want to tell my mom right away obviously because she was expecting it. I was going to make her wait a bit.) Al came up with the brilliant idea of doing a jumble puzzle. (My mom and Al are huge on jumble puzzles). So Al wrote it on a napkin and gives it to my mom to see if she could figure it out. This is perfectly normal btw the two because they always do word scramble things. Anyways my mom doesn't figure it out till 2.5 hours later, she got distracted with laundry, dinner...etc.. The scramble read:

FEBRUARY FIRST GRANDCHILD