Telling Todd our wonderful news!

Spent the day with the Becks on Sunday, Nov. 15. Todd finally made it home and came over to the Becks too. We watched the Vikes, had lunch and hung out. Finally around 6 p.m., I told Todd I was tired and wanted to go home. What I really wanted was to tell him our news! I had waited long enough!

We got home and he unloaded some of his hunting crap. I waited patiently for him to get seated in his recliner. When he did, I went into our bedroom and got a small package out of my dresser drawer. He said, “Now what’d you buy me at the craft show?”I handed him the package and he said, “It’s a T-shirt but what does it say?” I said, “Hang on. I need to get the camera.” He said, “Why? Oh man. What’s it say?” I prepared the camera and told him to go ahead and open it.

The picture I took wasn’t very good as it just shows him holding up the T-shirt and reading it. I didn’t get the reaction shot I had hoped for but that’s OK.

His T-shirt said, “Trophy Daddy.” I had made it because of the Trophy Husband sweatshirt joke between us. He read the shirt, looked at me and said, “Really?” And I was already bawling! He jumped up, yelled “Yippee” or something like that and then we hugged and cried and he repeated “Amen” over and over again! We took a picture of ourselves. He’s wearing the T-shirt proudly even though I ironed the wording on crooked! Oh well. I told him I’d make him a new one if he really wanted one!

We discussed who we were going to tell and I said that I had had nine days to think about this and to hear me out. I told him I wanted to tell Heidi, Patty, Melissa, Dave and Julie and Jim and Sheila, as all of these people have already been praying for us throughout this process. He agreed that it was OK to tell those people.