Missing Chance to SMS Relay to iPad

Hi,
I was setting up my ipad for the new SMS relay to have it send\receive SMS messages from my iphone but I missed the opportunity to enter in the code on my iphone. I'm unable to replicate this message, I've tried to disable and enable imessage on both devices but still the message has no come back. How do i force my devices to sync to each others so I can take adtanvatage of this feature of ios 8.1?
Please and thanks in advance!

I was able to figure this out, a solution was to go to my iphone and go to Settings --> Messages --> Text Message forwarding. from there I was able to see my ipad and I enabled it.
I tested it out and it appears to work just fine!!

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Got everything updated to 8.1 and to Yosemite. Have a 4s, MacBook Pro and an iPad mini. Working on setting up the SMS relay for my wife. (These are all her devices). iPad fired up right away, no issues. Verification code came up, and voila! messages on both iPhone and iPad. Well and good. Then comes the MacBook. Not so lucky there. I've been working on it for about 2 hours now, and I'm coming to the community here to assist.
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3) Signed out of iCloud on all devices, sign back in, and wait 15 minutes. Also No Dice. (Again, iPad fired up right away).
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On trying all of these things, I still can't get the verification code to pop up on the MacBook. I'd appreciate any assistance/ideas/suggestions that y'all could offer.
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