Family Announcement

This past weekend we drove up to San Jose for my cousin Mikko and Katherine's wedding (congratulations again, Mikko and Kat!!). What a jam-packed weekend! We arrived Thurs at ~10:30pm, Fri drove to Gilroy for the wedding, Sat partied up some more with cousins, Sun took the kids to Happy Hallow and Mon night drove home (10:30pm-2:30am, record time!).


Since the wedding was open bar, I made all sorts of excuses not to take shots and party hard with my cousins. Mark, on the other hand, took full advantage... the entire weekend! lol

Since I was stuggling to hide my already protruding belly and continued to make excuses for my weight gain and non-alcoholic weekend, I finally talked Mark into telling our family about our good news on Saturday. Especially since everyone was all together, it made it convenient.


We were partying it up at Tito Guy and Tita Dinah's house Sat night - eating, drinking, laughing, eating and eating (then eating some more... arroz caldo and chicharon bulaklak... mmmmmm!). I had bought a book for Mira called "I'm Going to be a Big Sister," which I brought with us "just in case we decided to announce" ;). I wrapped it up and gave it to her as a present for being "such a good girl at the wedding." She opened it in front of everyone, and from what I remember, Rita started punching me in the arm and screaming (she had recognized the book before it was completely revealed), then there was a lot more screaming. :) I got hugs and congrats from everyone and the occassional "no wonder you looked like you were gaining weight/getting fat..." :\


The next day it was time to tell the Garcia's. We had spent the night and Carlo and Zsandra's. Mommy Malu and Papa Oids were also there. We were getting ready to take the kids to Happy Hollow, when I asked Mira to have Grandmama read to her her new book (Grandmama loves reading to Mira). Grandmama read the title out loud, which Zsandra and Papa Oids overheard and picked up on. ;) Papa Oids was nice enought to say he couldn't tell. :)