Stacy had 'concluded' based on (what I'm assuming) the fact that I asked for her help to get Matt to the beach so we could get a caricuture done. (Her parents have a beach house) I believe I had shown her some different ideas of how I wanted to tell Matt when the day finally came. And well it's sort of random to call up a friend and ask if they wanted to spend the weekend at their beach house so I could get a caricture done. She had alot of family staying there already so she said that wouldn't work. But then we were in contact the rest of the week trying to figure something else out. She researched places and called people to find out if there were caricutre artists there, what their hours were and if it was a semi private setting.
Stacy never told me that she knew that I was pregnant, but yelled at me and said I would not tell her before Matt, so she semi knew and was in on the plan.
So we got into Gatlinburg TN early Saturday afternoon and "tell Matt he's gonna be a daddy" was in action. We were walking around exploring and ended up at a mall-ish place where a man was doing caricatures. (how crazy?!) I was worried how I was going to get Matt to do a caricture. I knew we couldn't walk right up to the place and tell him or he would get suspicous. So when I saw the place I sent Stacy a text for her to show the caricuture artist, in the hopes that Matt would want to get one done. It was in the corner of the bottom floor. Stacy and Bubba were going to take the elevator up to a sports store (since they had the stroller with them) And I told Matt to walk up the stairs with me, (giving Stacy time to show the caricture artist). Matt was complaining, why don't we ride with them. We ended up getting lost for real though- I didn't realize their were so many levels and didn't know where we were going- so Stacy had plenty of time.
Stacy got us back down stairs near the caricature place, by saying she wanted me to help her pick out candy for Riley's birthday. It was in that candy store, next door to the carciture place that I started working on Matt. He was having no part in it. He didn't want to! But he did eventually give in. (back story: on our second anniversary I had given him a plaque that said "The Pressleys established June 19, 2010). I said I wanted to put our caricature underneath the plaque.
So.... We sat down and Leon got to work. I was NERVOUS! There were a few people around watching us, and some kids nearby, and I was sure someone was going to blurt out "oh my gosh she's pregnant." But no one did. Bubba had the video camera so I was super excited to get the whole thing over with so that I could watch our video. Only later to find out Bubba didn't turn on the camera until the very end after the man had shown us the picture. I am bummed.
Well without further ado---- here is how I told Matthew that he was going to be a daddy!
Matt didn't completely understand at first. I don't think he looked at the words- just the picture. I had to ask "do you see anything?". (Incase you can't tell by the picture- it is a picture of him and me with a plus sign between us. Then =3 on the right side.)
I thought "oh gees I'm going to have to tell him."
Then he said ya "1+1=3".
"1+1=3, are you kidding me Matt", was what I was thinking. 1+1=3???? He said it like that really was true.
But he did eventually get it. "oh my Gosh are you pregnant?" I cried, we hugged...
He has been on cloud nine ever since. He carried around the picture faced out to show everyone as we walked around Gaitlinburg. A few people looked and wispered to each other. At one point Stacy took our picture in front of a bear?? I think. And Matt held up the caricture to be in the picture. A woman standing nearby got excited and asked us about it. It was fun sharing the news :)
I'm excited to see him so excited and can't wait to become parents and hold our little peanut.
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| A picture of Matt and I (+ baby) paying for our caricture! |
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