Gender Reveal Party

We were so excited to tell the world about our Jensen, but beforehand we decided that we wanted to do a couple of fun gender reveals. Since we just did a party for Eva's birthday we didn't want to go all out, we just wanted a special way to tell special people. Let me say, keeping this secret was soooo hard! I wanted to tell everyone the moment we found out. I can't believe I didn't bust and tell my mom. I was able to call a few close friends right away because I knew we wouldn't be seeing them so it helped to at least share my secret with them.

Thursday night we hosted our small group and I usually make a snack or dessert so I thought it would be fun to do a gender reveal cake. I dyed the inside blue (for a boy) and topped it with about 5 lbs of sprinkles! 

Haha, you can't actually tell in this photo, but the inside of the cake really was blue. It was so much fun to do this! Even though I already knew what was inside I really liked that moment of suspense when everyone is excited to find out. It was almost like finding out for myself all over again!

Saturday night we gathered with family at Ryan's parent's house. We invited my parents too. My amazing mother in-law had these decorations set up when we arrived and I'm so glad she did - I hadn't even thought to get anything cute to decorate.

For the reveal we hid a tiny onesie and a pair of blue shoes and made everybody look for a "clue" about what we were having. We hid it in the bottom of a house plant and it was hysterical because it took them so long to find it. Somebody would come over and look through the plant, but I guess not quite close enough because it took many people looking before anybody found anything. I don't know why, but I felt so nervous right before...obviously our family was going to be happy either way!  I'm also so surprised that Eva kept the whole thing quiet. We told her that if anybody asked to tell them "no way!" and that is what she did.

Ah! I'm so glad we did these little things to celebrate Jensen. It really wasn't anything huge, but it was so good to celebrate after such a hard first half of this pregnancy. And babies are always worth celebrating! Thanks to our friends and family for going along with our silliness and being so happy for us!