It's a.....Gender Reveal Party!

My family came up for the party on Friday. Friday evening we attended a Hunger Games Release Party.  It was fun. They had 2 obstacle courses, archery viewing, trivia games, "Capital" makeovers, etc...

Grant loves motorcycles. I'm pretty sure next time we come to the Riverwoods we will be stopping here.

Sisters!

Later that evening we went to Pizza Pie Cafe (kind of a tradition, the first night of company in our family) Grant really liked Hailey's shoes.

Grant spilled water on Megan.

He tried to help her dry off.

*****Disclaimer: The pictures below were taken by my lovely sister Amber, therefore she is not featured in any of them! Thank you so much they turned out great!!!!*********

So yes we had our reveal party. After seeing it somehow online I thought it would be a really fun idea. I just basically invited family because I thought it would be better that way in case I had a shower, didn't want to over kill celebration of the new baby. Of course in my heart I could never over celebrate but you know.

So I totally didn't plan well with set up and timing. Luckily there were only 2 other sets of guest that were coming other than my family and they were both late so it worked out. But like half way through the supposed time of the party I was set up and the guests had arrived. I'm glad it was so laid back and my house turned into an explosion of daycare/preschool mess. The kids had free range to roam while us adults did our party.

So the party events were as follows:

I chose the basic theme of blue vs. pink. Nothing fancy. I will do something real cute for the shower though. So we had blue and pink streamers, balloons, napkins, plates, silverwear, punch, pink lemonade, and I bought a great bouquet with a pink and white gerbera daisy, a purple iris (there wasn't a blue flower), and a yellow tulip, etc...

We served baked potatoes and chili with those toppings on the left. The middle is a pasta salad my sister  in law brought. Our other friends the Richards brought some yummy fruit salad.

The pretty flowers! I love fresh flowers! Oh and I need to scan those ultrasounds pictures so you can all see them.

The first game was to guess with yes or no questions what baby item is taped to the back of oneself.

Also guess how many candies are in the jar.

There were 103.

Suggest a boy and girl name.

Megan actually came up with a name that we have put on to our top three baby girl names! So it was beneficial after all. I was just doing the activity for entertainment factor.

And guess the "poo" that fills the dirty diaper (really its chocolate candy).

After we had our potato lunch with chili, pasta salad, fruit salad, and green salad.

After eating we played a game where you match maternity things with candy bars such as "Contraction" would be matched with "Whopper". :)

Then I announced the winners to the games.

We then played an activity where we saw how the "Old Wive's Tales" would have voted on what the gender is by their myths.  The wive's tales were mostly correct. There were 11 tales and only 3 were wrong.

THEN we cut the cake.

I can't believe its finally time!

 Fun long party. I liked how laid back it was. Anyway, I'm sure everyone has seen the video but yes the middle of the cake determined the gender of the cake. My friend was the only one to know the gender at first. She filled the cake for us. And it was PINK!

And this photo features the crotch pictures that shows the privates.  I will upload that one too with the other ultrasound  pictures.

My 5 months/20 week picture.

So yes everyone we are having a GIRL! We have decided on 3 names that we like. I will post them when it comes closer to the due date.  I want to go buy something girlie now! And I have been browsing for my registry online. Fun stuff! We are so excited for this little girl to come!!!

I honestly think the shirt at the party made me look super huge so here are pictures I took today in a fitted one so you could really see how big my belly is.
20 weeks! Half way!

Family Reunion

I blogged about our family weekend but didn't post any pictures. So here are some catch up items.

Playing games on Saturday night.

The boys watching a movie.

More games.

Megan and her Beau.

Gotta have some basketball time.

And some park time.

My handsome bro who we hadn't seen in over two years. Lets never do that again.

Our car broke down on our way to the temple. Such is our luck with cars.

Anticipation

So a month ago I schedule my ultrasound appointment for when I am 19 weeks and 6 days at 9am so I could know the gender the earliest possibly allowed without paying extra. So it seemed all great until Perry was upset that he wouldn't be able to be there when we found out. I love to plan and have parties so I decided to make an event of it all. Conveniently my sister and mother were going to be passing through that weekend anyway. Then my sister and dad decided to tag along too because of the party.....Party details and pictures will be for after the party.

This situation put me in a little anxious predicament. I have now seen the precious one on the large flat screen tv at the dr.s office. The baby would lay there then roll over to its other side. The baby would put its hand by its face, and then would cross them in front of the chest. I even got to see the baby kick me while looking at the legs and feet and feel it. lol. So fun. I saw the four chambers of the heart, ect... It is most exciting just to watch the baby move on there.

Anyway, since I planned a party I have the results on my windowsill in an envelope just waiting for me to take a peak but I will not. I sure hope I sleep tonight lol. I'm a ball of anxiety. Luckily my family is coming tonight and will distract me somewhat. And I successfully took a nap this afternoon without dreams about the cutting the cake part of the party (which inside will reveal the gender). I had the party dream over and over again with the results being a boy last night. However all of my dreams involving a real baby have been a girl.

Reasons I want a girl.

1. I want to make sure I have a girl eventually (like I can secure any of that fate on my own lol).
2. I want to buy cute pretty dresses and all those girlie things!!!!!
3. I want the baby to look like me. Grant just does not look like me at all and I hope that if I have one of my gender there's a chance that there's more of me there lol.
4. I want to not feel shy about doing another baby shower. There are better reasons to have a shower when you have zero girly stuff.

Reasons I want a boy.

1. To insure Grant has a little brother. (What if after "this" girl we always have more girls!? This would truly be sad for Grant.)
2. I have all the boy stuff I need.
3. Boys are really fun to dress too.
4. We love Grant of course and he's a boy lol.

So there you have it. Grant can't officially vote but every time we ask him what he thinks the baby will be he says it will be a girl. :) I have also voted girl.

Wish me luck for the next 19 1/2 hours.

Late Valentine's Surprise

Remember when I said we were getting a late Valentine's gift? Well I forgot to post about it. We bought a digital piano. The brand is Kawai. It has an ivory-like finish and of course the keys are weighted to feel more like a natural piano.We will someday get an acoustic but until then this baby will be very useful. I hope to get my skills back enough to teach lessons someday. And maybe I might even become useful at church playing. I haven't showcased it like I should with up close and personal pictures but below is a cute video of Grant dancing and air drumming to Perry's music. Grant surprisingly knows a lot of the words. And behind Grant is the piano.

Also don't forget to vote whether you think the baby is a boy or a girl. You can vote on my blog the right of this post or on Facebook on my page. :) We find out in 4 days!