The Big Reveal

The big ultrasound was on Tuesday October 23rd. I'll write another post for that particular day b/c it was very fun but I was so excited about doing this one, i could wait to take time to write the other post first. It was so hard to not tell anyone between Tuesday and Saturday when we had our party but it was worth it. The only people we told were my parents and Kevin's parents. And many people tried to get it out of us sooner but we held strong. :)

Here is our invite the hubby made

Anyone who has been on pinterest has seen or heard about the gender reveal parties. It really isn't that new but still a little uncommon that you'll have the occasional person that hasn't heard of it before. When i first saw it on pinterest (before we were even pregnant) I knew I wanted to do this. I had to convince Kevin a little but he came around. we weren't sure how many people would be interested in coming but the curiosity of the women will get them to come and by telling the men we would provide food and a big tv to watch the GA/FL game on they were in. We are very lucky to have so many friends and family come to celebrate with us. I think there ended up being around 40 people total. that is the most people we have had in our house all at once and i didn't mind at all. It was so fun. I am especially thankful my brothers and sister-in-law drove down from Nashville and surprised me! Also my sister drove down from Cary, NC to be there which meant a lot. It was really fun to be able to spend the whole day with them preparing for the party. It's funny how you can tell how they are excited for us without them having to say it. Obviously they drove down for a short weekend, but also the effort they put into making the party fun showed they care. My youngest brother, Mitch, actually vacuumed my living and dining room, mopped my kitchen, and helped me bake and ice 48 cupcakes. My oldest brother video taped the big reveal and did a great job. Kevin is always hesitant to hand over a camera or video camera to a amateur b/c people will always try to zoom in when you can always crop to get the best picture and get the best video zoomed out but Nick did a fantastic job. You can view the big reveal here . Brittany (my new sister n law) is so amazingly crafty and she made me this adorable wreath for the door.

Side note: You can also tell she is so crafty b/c she made my brother's Halloween costume for work. Isn't this amazing 

 My sister helped with a bunch of stuff but her role as fashionista aunt will continue. she keeps me looking cute and also has purchased very cute clothes for our baby girl. The biggest shout out of thanks and gratitude goes to my mom and dad. They bought and made a huge Mexican fiesta meal for our 40 guests and spent their whole Saturday preparing for it. The food was amazing. we had hard tacos, soft tacos, burritos, tacos salad, rice, beans, my dads (technically his niece's recipe) famous delicious salsa, and cheese dip. Unfortunately i didn't get a picture of all the food but the there was no counter space left there was so much. We also had a small table of desserts with some more decor thanks to Brittany. There was blue Hawaiian punch and pink lemonade for the drinks. strawberry cupcakes, and white cupcakes with blue icing and pick and blue sprinkles, different pink flavors of starbursts, cookies and creme kisses (they just happen to be wrapped in blue).

I had also found this idea on pinterest as well and thought it was easy and cute so we had these too. 

For the BIG REVEAL we used the balloons in a box idea (again from pinterest). We couldn't find a cardboard box big enough so my wonderful Hubby actually built a quick box frame out of some scrap wood, stapled some cardboard to it and walaah! here are just a few picks from the reveal

 Here is a good one of Kevin's Face

 Our friends and family (sorry its blurry its from a phone)

a little photoshopping 

The proud parents! 

We don't have a name yet so we are definitely open to suggestions.

Lastly, to all of our friends and family (not just those that came to the party) we really love everyone and are so blessed to have so many people already care about this beautiful little girl and are so thankful for the congrats, thoughts and prayers thus far. I will probably say this same line in more posts to come because we are just so thankful to have such a loving group of people share in our joys.