Deb's birthday was on October 19th. We were going to celebrate by hanging out with them that night but she does the lighting and effects for the Owatonna community theater and had a rehearsal on Wednesday night. We decided that it would be best to hang out and celebrate the Sunday before. We all love the MN Vikings (despite their continued failures) so Jason and I decided that we would get all of our gear on and take a picture together before the game. I'm working on a wall of family photos and I would just say that it's going to be for the wall.
Little did they know, Jason and I were planning on taking a video and not a photo. :)
When we got to Deb and Jerry's we had about 10 min before the game started. Deb was already in her Vikings sweatshirt- Perfect! We told Jerry to get on his jersey. Deb was so excited for the picture, probably because Jason hates pictures and was actually planning this one, she started digging through her things and found a Vikings football for Kaiah (our dog) to hold, a flag, a couple hats... etc. Clearly they bought into our plan. Jason did a great job pretending to line up the camera and work the timer so that it would take a picture. After about the third time of pretending to take a timed photo, Jason turned on the video function of our camera, ran over to his spot and said, "Okay, everyone say...Val's Pregnant!"
In this moment we were all smiling and Jason's parents were frozen, waiting for the flash! After the flash went off,
Deb turned to me and asked, "Are you kidding?"
I giggled excitedly, "No."
Deb again- "Are you serious!?"
Me again- "I'm serious, yep!"
Then the hugs happened, along with happy tears, and even a joyful Grandma Dance!
Watch the moment unfold...
