Telling Joey

I found out I was pregnant on my mother-in-law's birthday.  While it would have been a really nice surprise for her, I knew we would want to wait and make sure before we told anyone.  Joey was already at their house cooking steaks while I was running around town buying pregnancy tests, so he had no idea!  There was no way I was going to be able to get him to come home for me to tell him and I knew if I told him at his mom's house there would be no way we could keep it a secret.  So I kept the hardest secret of my life from him for 5 hours!!!!  I kept looking at him all night and telling him I love him and smiling really big, which is not all that abnormal for us, but I still thought he might think I was being a little weird.  He told me later he just thought I was so happy about quitting my job!  Usually when we are at my in-laws we are done by about 9 because everyone has either been working all day or we have church  the next day.  But this evening drug on for what felt like FOREVER and we stayed til 10!  At about 9:30 I looked over at Joey and told him I had a surprise for him when we got home.  I knew he immediately thought it was an iphone.  He hates surprises and I love them!  I was hoping telling him that would cause him to be ready to leave but we stayed a little longer.  Finally everyone started to leave and I ran and jumped in my car and rushed home.  Joey was right behind me. I  had tried really hard to think of something really creative to tell him, but since I had no time to prepare anything or go get a baby outfit that said something about "I love my daddy,"  I wasn't left with many options.  Joey came in ready for his present and I had him sit at the kitchen table and close his eyes.  I put both pregnancy tests in front of him and told him to open his eyes. He looked around confused, trying to find the iphone he was certain I had bought him, and he finally laid eyes on those two strange objects.  He asked what that was and I told him it was two positive pregnancy tests.  He looked me in the eyes and totally shocked asked if I was serious and then he started to say are you serious again and broke down in tears.  We just hugged and he cried (for me my emotions wouldn't be displayed until after we heard the heartbeat.)  We agreed we would wait to tell our families, but the next day we realized just how hard that would be!  In order to help us contain our excitement we just kept telling each other over and over again that we were pregnant and everytime it was exciting to think about!