An Announcment

I've been granted permission to share...

I'm going to be a Grandma!!

We've known for over a month (it seems like an eternity), but Britt wanted to wait until she was a good 12 weeks before we started spreading the news.

We couldn't be more excited.

It was so cute how she and Austin broke the happy news (Oct13)

We were on our usual Sunday evening video chat... chatting it up about important things like

How were your Sunday church meetings?

What were the highlights of your week?

Our dogs are so cute....

We had probably been chatting for a good 20 - 30 minutes, when Britt said,

"Oh yeah, we got some new furniture for our office."

She grabbed the laptop and headed up the stairs.

Seriously, I was thinking, "Nice, they have a sofa... or a new desk..."

When she turned her computer around to show us, it took us a few seconds to see clearly (a moving screen via video chat can be a little blurry), then it took another few seconds to wake up mentally to what it was:

A crib.

With a sign that said something like

"Occupied May 2014"

It was so funny to watch the girls at home, who usually lounge around on the floor while we chat, minimally contributing to the conversation, suddenly perk up and become super animated and chatty.

We took guesses on the gender:

Bill ~ Girl

Tina ~ Girl

Taylor ~ Twin boys (this was BEFORE the ultrasound)

Lynnea ~ Girl

Britta ~ Boy

Austin ~ Boy (they had done the ever-so-accurate Chinese pencil test)

Lexee ~ Boy

Shilo ~ Boy

Mauri ~ Girl

I also sent a nice list of names I found in the family pedigree chart to get them thinking.

Some of my favorite boy names:

Truls 

(Britta said she can't even say it, but it's my fave)

Squire

Silas

Niels

And favorite girl names:

Mette / Metta

Ellse

Maren

Elsa

Comfort

I'm thrilled to be joining the ranks of all you grannies out there...
EXCLAMATION POINT!