"...an extra egg in my basket!"

---Sunday, March 31, 2013---
We were originally planning on waiting to tell our families the exciting news before Rachel's wedding weekend, but on Easter morning Josh couldn't keep it in any longer! With much begging from Josh, we decided to tell our families this day. Since we weren't able to share the news with Josh's family in person he came up with a clever way of doing so. We used the line, "Joni has an extra egg in her basket." It took a moment for some of the family members to understand what we really meant (especially Jason who is the brainiac). Rachel's reaction (as you can imagine) involved a lot of screaming, excitement, and over enthusiasm! For Megan and Ryan we had Colin tell them that he was going to be a cousin.

As for my family, we had my mom in on the secret to help us play it all out. We got some plastic Easter eggs and put a piece of paper in each one that read, 'Baby McDonald coming November 2013!!!' After dinner my mom passed around the eggs to everyone and told them she had a little present for each of us. As my siblings opened the egg they found out it was not quite a present but surprising news!!! (We weren't planning on starting a family for at least a couple of more years).

Mandee was extremely shocked

Charlie was confused

Cort and Jade were excited