Gender Reveal

I have another cousin that is expecting (I love it when my cousins are pregnant) and she wanted to do a gender reveal party for her baby. These parties are super fun to plan and I was more than happy to help her plan her party. 

 Amy loves shoes so I knew I had to decorate with cute boy and girl shoes. I also love baby clothes so I thought it would be cute to display a boy outfit and a girl outfit.

These parties are a great way to include men at a shower since the expecting dad will be there. 

Amy wanted to include all the guests. So we set up a way for everyone to wear their vote on by pinning a mustache or bow on their person. They were a perfect touch everyone enjoyed wearing their vote proudly (I picked boy :))!

Mom and Dad wearing their votes!

Her reveal was hidden inside a few donuts. (one of her pregnancy cravings). Her, her husband and her mom all took bites from their donuts and as her guests watched with eager anticipation for what color the cream would be and help everyone discover the gender at the same time.

We were dying to find out the gender and it was finally time!

It’s a………

BOY!! 

Here is a video of the reveal! My cousin was in total shock (she was convinced it was a girl)!

It's A Boy!!

Four days before our appointment Dane felt the baby kick for the first time!

We went to out ultrasound so ready to find out what we were having. We didn’t want to find out in the room so we brought an envelope that the ultrasound technician could put a picture and a sticky note in so we could have our own gender reveal. We got to see the baby and everything looked healthy. We left with our envelope and of course we couldn’t wait any longer. We took the picture to The Sweet Tooth Fairy and had them put either a pink or blue cupcake in a box depending on what the sticky note said. After we paid for the cupcake we decided we had to open it in the car. We opened it and filmed our reaction.

It’s a boy!! We were so surprised and so excited!! We both thought it was a girl but we are so excited that our first is a boy. I have no idea what to do with a boy but Dane does and I’m sure I will learn quickly. I just started thinking about all of the fun things I could do with a little boy. We can't wait to meet him. 

We were leaving for Virginia for Thanksgiving break the next day so we wanted to wait to tell my family in person. Melissa wasn’t going to be in Virginia for another four days so we wanted to tell her before we left. We got some blue silly string and told her we needed to come over for a few minutes. When she opened the door we attacked her with the silly string. She figured out we were having a boy and was so excited.

We thought how we would tell my family and finally decided to tell the whole family to come pick us up from the airport. When they picked us up we were both wearing blue! My family was so excited! (I didn’t get a picture of us in all blue)

For Facebook we did a smaller version of the balloons in the box. We also tied a blue ribbon on our family dog Maggie but that was just for us!

We are both so excited to have boy. I have already done some shopping and found him some cute clothes. I am glad I know it’s a boy now so I don’t have keep calling our baby an “it”.

Here are some ultrasound pictures:

It's a Boy!

His head, body and an arm up by his face

 His cute little feet! (from the bottom)

His face! He was looking right at us. He kind of looks like an alien