Starting to tell...

Now that things have settled from the school year, we've returned from our Eastern Oregon camping trip and we've started to share our "secret" with others we plan on regularly updating our 'pregnancy blog' (as it has been deemed).
Our camping adventure to Wallowa Lake with Cindy, Jason, Reed, Rian, Bob and Carol was a blast. It was so much fun spending time in the relaxing outdoors and Philip love the opportunity to catch a couple fish from Bird's boat. I enjoyed some bonding experiences with Cindy, Reed and Rian. I was delighted to see that so much was as I remembered from my own childhood--deer in the park, great trails to bike around and the paddleboats! I was surprised by how well I slept in the tent and I actually avoided feeling the nausea which has kept me up most nights at home.
Before taking off, we shared the news with my parents. We can tell they are nervous about the whole diabetic thing, but excited! We also stopped by Grandma and Grandpa's in Helix on our way back. When Philip told Grandpa that "we're having a kid", Grandma quickly chided him and responded with "you're not having a Goat. It's a BABY!". Then Grandpa reminded us that we're the last ones--all six of his grandkids now will have given him great-grandkids. It was so much fun sharing the news with them as they responded with incredible pride and joy. As we recieved a tour of her hallway of photos of grandkids, Philip shared with her that ours will 'look a little different'. As he did this she quickly said, "Don't worry. They'll still be welcome here!"--Good to know!
The sharing of the joyous news continued as we attempted to have Kuper tell Friday. We'd been playing in the kiddie pool with him and sent him in to tell her that "Ghee's having a baby." Shortly after he entered the house he came running out hollering to use, "Mommy says 'her is NOT a baby'." The second attempt was successful with a little help from mom who was in the house with them. Randy and Paul got the news quickly as they were heading to town. Both of them admitted surprise that their children did not act as birth control for us. Randy could hardly speak and expressed just a giddy laugh.
Before returning home, we stopped by to see Char and kids. We had been looking forward to sharing this news with her as we know she's been anticipating this for a while and is constantly inquiring on when it will happen. After missing her earlier in the week, we were glad she was home, but shocked that she already knew. Randy had phoned her on his way to town. She offered us baby gear to take back, but we had a car full of camping gear--and Juan!
Upon our return, we called India to start spreading the news. They had just left church where they'd apparently been praying for such a gift from God. This is their first grandchild (and niece/nephew) so the overjoy was easily apparent through the phone. We started receiving advice from Philip's mom regarding pregnancy, etc. and are looking forward to sharing the updates with them.