There have been four different times in my life that I've gone from clean shaven to some form of facial hair. To hear that you are a bit nervous about the comments from the family is totally normal. There'll be lots of questions and hopefully even more compliments. Sometimes it's just hard to be the focus of attention. You've got a great beard and keep reminding yourself of that the whole time.

Just think, if you ended up shaving, you'd only have to start all over again because there's no way with a beard like that you would be able to keep clean shaven for long.