Love Life: Our Gender Reveal!

This is obviously overdue, but I have been meaning to write about the big celebration we had to find out if Baby Rocka (as Tavian calls our little one) was a boy or a girl.

With Tavian we found out at our ultrasound that he was a boy. It was definately a fun and exciting moment for me and Cole. With Felicity we decided to wait until she was born. We enjoyed getting to experience it both ways, so with this baby we decided to try something else new and find out with our friends and family.

I thought a lot about what sort of theme I wanted for the party. I had seen a really neat blog about a couple that found out with fireworks. For awhile I thought that is the direction we were going to go. But once my due date was moved to January 1st, it hit me that it would be really fun to have a mock New Years Eve Party, especially because it is likely we won't be doing anything too fun to celebrate on the actual New Years Eve.

I had a fun time on Pinterest deciding how to decorate and I realized the perfect reveal for a New Years Eve party would be to have a large ball drop either blue or pink confetti on us.

We needed a HUGE ball to make a big impact...the trouble was that i was having a hard time finding anything. This is the original tutorial that helped me put my plan into action (click here) and I just decided to order the largest paper lantern that I could find on the internet. And then we got to work decorating the outside with Gold crepe paper. All of our decorations were gold and silver, but I couldn't use silver on the ball because I couldn't find silver crape paper anywhere. Seriously frustrating. But it still turned out pretty sweet...don't you think??

My brother-in-law Mike was obviously pretty excited about it ;)

Our invite for the event, which I just put together on one of the evite websites, read,

"Gold or Silver

Girl or Boy

Either way, we will shout for joy!

Come join us as we celebrate finding out if Baby Emerson is a boy or girl!"

The gold and silver made a focused theme for decorations which helped me a lot with ideas. I had gold and silver beads, party hats, and party horns for people to take, and they chose their color based on if they thought the baby was going to be a baby boy or girl.

Here is another picture of our decorations

Unfortunately we didn't do a good job of getting pictures of all the decorations, and we waited until well into the party to take this photo. But we had gold and silver cupcakes, gold and silver candy, sparkling cider, and then I bought toasting glasses at the dollar store and labeled them with gold and silver stickers from one to ten. I got the idea here off of pinterest

Another fun aspect of the party was having it semi-formal attire. It was great getting dressed up with the family and it made for some pretty cute pictures too! I am so thankful that we were able to celebrate with so many of our friends and family. My sister Andrea was kind enough to let us have the party at her house. She has an AMAZING back yard that was perfect for all the little kids to play in. My other sister Ellen made the trip from Wyoming with her family to celebrate with us and she was such an absolute help with getting everything set up. And my other sister, Sarah, was super helpful because she and her husband took care of filling the ball with confetti for us and transferring it to the party (not the easiest of tasks!!) It made for a fun evening!!!

Tavian and his cousin, and good buddy, Ariana. I mean, this is just too cute, right?

I love this handsome dude!

She was so cute carrying her little baby around all night!

Ariana, Emily, and my Goddaughter Addison. My sister Ellen has some cuties, that is for sure!

Ellen is 6 weeks further along in her pregnancy, and we are all so excited to see if they will be adding another girl or a boy to the fam! We will all be finding out when baby Doherty gets here towards the end of November!

These were a big hit with all the kiddos...a little annoying for the adults, but it was ok ;)

Have no clue what she got on her face, but she is so cute all the same!

And, now for the BIG reveal!

Counting down from ten getting ready to find out the exciting news!!!

Wahoo! (Please note that my sister put pink and blue confetti in the very bottom in case any of the confetti were to leak out, so that we still wouldn't be sure and it wouldn't ruin the surprise.)

BOY!!!!

Our whole family thought it was a boy, and it was fun that we were all right! Tavian and I had both been convinced since day one with this baby! I'm actually not sure how Tavian would have reacted to it being a girl, just because he was so sure he was going to have a brother!

So excited to be adding a boy to the family!

Here is a video that shows a bit more....super fun!

Video on Facebook

Here are some other fun pictures from the night

Love my besties

So blessed to have this lady in my life, and so happy she could come and represent my CORE girls!

Sydnie and I with our adorable baby girls!

Ellen and I laughing it up as we put our hands on each others growing bellies!

love her!

Sweet Gemmy enjoying her cupcake!

Sharing with Felicity...what a nice cousin!

Looks like Felicity decided to get one of her own.

Baby Teagan...such beautiful blue eyes!

This looks like I am helping her eat a cupcake, but really she found it on her own and went after it all on her own! I just couldn't resist documenting it!

SISTERS!

I love this picture...our last babies have all been girls and we got a photo all together. Felicity is the oldest followed by Gemma, Addy, and Teagan.