When I got pregnant, I didn't want to tell anyone until I was in the second trimester. Always the safest thing to do, I hear.
As I told you previously, I already had told my parents. Weston knew, of course. The only other people I told in the first trimester was Angeleck and Erin. Angeleck knew because I would have to go to doctor's appointments. I see her/talk to her every single day multiple times. She knew we were trying too. She is my best friend. I just couldn't bear to not tell her. It would've driven me crazy! She did such a good job covering for me. She would flat out lie to people. Thankfully we were selling the house, so she would just tell people that I had to go home to show the house. I love that lady! She also came up with your nickname-LBT. Little Baby Tanner. It was how we could talk at code at work where no one would overhear. Erin I told because she had held my hand through all of this. She really had helped me. I don't know what I would've done without her. She is my other best friend that I could confide in about all of this. I knew she wouldn't tell a soul. Plus I was dealing with a lot of new things in my body. She helped me in the fact that I could ask her a million questions in a day and she would answer them. She never once seemed annoyed with me. Ha!
We also told Matt and Leah. I am not sure on when we told them, but it was a couple of weeks after we told my parents. I had a shirt made that said "I'm going to be a big cousin". I wrapped it up and gave it as a Valentines Day present to George. Matt and Leah were super excited. George looked so cute in his shirt. He is going to be a great cousin. I am happy he is close to age. They will be able to grow up and be boy best friends.
March 26th I had my 12 week appointment. Weston went with me and we got to hear the heartbeat for the first time. It was his first appointment. When we left the appointment, I asked him if he enjoyed that. He just got this super huge grin and said yes.
The next day, March 27th, I picked up petifors from a local bakery that had booties on them. I wrote a poem that said "I peed on a stick, and what do you know! In four or five months, I'll be ready to blow. A girl or boy, we don't know. All we know is Meg is preggo. Baby and mama are just fine and well. The secret isn't quite out, so please don't tell." I laid them both on everyone's desk at work. They were all so excited! John, my boss, said he knew I was pregnant. He could tell by a look on my face. Angeleck was the one that helped me with that idea from looking at pinterest.
Friday, March 29th, I went to dinner with Ashley. I wanted to tell her the news, but it took me forever. People were all around us the whole time. I finally found my moment and showed her the 8 week ultrasound picture.
March 31st was Easter Sunday. After church the family went over to Mom's for Easter lunch. We sat down to eat and dad said the prayer. At the end of the prayer he said something about blessing us for our newest addition to the family. After it was over, Granddaddy Pat was like "what?!?" Of course my grandmother didn't have her good ear turned, so she was lost. We told them and they were so happy. Mom and I teared up again. After lunch, we rode over to my Dad's parents house and told them. They were shocked and happy. Nina must've started calling to tell the rest of the family. We kept getting texts the rest of the day congratulating us from my aunts. Everyone on that side is excited that baby Tanner is due on Oct 7th. We have a lot of Oct birthday's on that side, including my Dad's on the 12th.
On April 1st is when I told the facebook world...basically everyone else. I know horrible idea to tell on April Fools' Day, but it just fell on that day. Of course some people didn't believe me. I guess a lot of people fake pregnancies on April Fool's Day. I ended up taking a picture of my belly with a poster that said "tax deduction coming October 2013" with an arrow pointing to my belly. It got a lot of awesome responses to it.
So that is basically how everyone found out!
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