Hey everyone, we had quite an exciting night last night at our "Gender Reveal Party" where we found out that we are going to have a little
GIRL! You could probably tell from the
video that I had a pretty good feeling it was a girl, since I was sporting my pink! Aside from the exciting news we found out, there are some other fun details I thought I'd share on here in case anyone else is interested in throwing their own gender reveal party, or you just want to see more of ours! So here we go!
First off is the food, I decided to serve some snacks with the cake, which I probably could have done without because it was way too much food for our small little group, but it was still fun because I did my top 5 food cravings. Which were: sweet potato chips, spaghetti (gluten-free), red pepper hummus and carrot sticks, LARA Bars, and any kind of fruit.
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| The food was all my "cravings"! |
As you can imagine I tried to make this party as "green" as possible, so we used no plastic plates or cups and of course...cloth napkins! As you can see from the pic, I got napkins especially for this party, with 6 baby girl ones and 6 baby boy ones! I have a seller on Etsy who makes all my cloth napkins and who is amazing! I've gotten nearly all my cloth napkins from her because they are such great quality and because you can choose from hundreds of different prints for the napkins. Here is a
link to her Etsy shop. Also, if you're wondering what I'll do with the boy ones now that I know we'll have a girl...I'm going to take them to my students at school, because we use her cloth napkins during snack time. ( :
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Going green with boy
and girl cloth napkins. |
To get our chow chow dogs into the party action, my mother-in-law made them these pink and blue bandannas! Meet Jilly, in the pink and Jackson in the blue.
Another fun detail of the party was to line up all my "belly pics" on our mantle for everyone to see how I have grown since we first found out I was pregnant. I think I'd like to do this again when I have my baby shower because it's fun to see how I and the baby have grown!
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| A "Belly Pic Timeline" |
Now before we cut the cake, we took pictures of the "teams" or all of those who thought the baby was a girl and then everyone who thought it was a boy. It was fun because everyone dressed up wearing the color they thought it was too!
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| Team Boy! |
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| Team Girl! |
Time to talk about the fabulous cake! It was made by a dear friend who I work with, who just happens to be gluten-free too! Of anyone to have known the gender before us, I am glad it was her! She worked hard in the weeks leading up to the party to find a good gluten-free cake recipe that was also vegan (no milk, eggs, or butter) and the one she ended up making was divine! We went back and forth on whether or not to dye the batter of the cake or just the inner layer of icing and since the colors weren't coming out quite right on the batter, we decided on just coloring the middle layer of icing. It worked out perfect and was delicious! No one knew it was gluten-free or vegan...until I told them...ha ha- go vegan!
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| Then celebrating that it's a GIRL! |
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| The pink icing to prove it! |
Here's Brandon showing off his pink gear and skateboard after the party. For those of you who don't know, he loves to skateboard and owns his own skateboard shop! Looks like there's going to be some pink skateboards in this house!
So I hope you had fun looking at the other details of our "Gender Reveal Party" it was an amazing night and I am so glad we chose to find out this way with all of our family. Look for many baby GIRL posts to come!
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My mom and I were super excited to go shopping for
some fun girl stuff! |
Hey everyone, we had quite an exciting night last night at our "Gender Reveal Party" where we found out that we are going to have a little GIRL! You could probably tell from the video that I had a pretty good feeling it was a girl, since I was sporting my pink! Aside from the exciting news we found out, there are some other fun details I thought I'd share on here in case anyone else is interested in throwing their own gender reveal party, or you just want to see more of ours! So here we go!
