Featured Follower & Friend-A Unique Gender Reveal Party

I have already shared when we threw our Gender Reveal Party for Sienna....
I'm a huge fan of the party theme. It's such a fun way to celebrate finding out!
(if you choose to find out!! ;)

When I saw my friend Abriana, of Abriana Chilelli Photography, post photos of 
their party out in Colorado.. I asked to share it with all of you! 

I love the unique way they announced to everyone........

When we did it, (posted here) we put a pink jelly bean inside before frosting..

when some local friends thew their party, they filled the inside of cupcakes with blue frosting...

(which by the way..was AMAZING frosting (wilton's buttercream recipe).,hehe.)

I've heard of those ways before and thats why we did it that way...

but i LOVED how Abri and Ryan announced what they were having...............
details below!

"We had the ultrasound tech write down what the gender of the baby was, seal it in an envelope, and then we took the envelope to our baker. At first I had told the baker to make the inside cake filling pink or blue, and she suggested making the actual cake pink or blue, with a white fondant outside. I wanted a simple decoration on the outside of the cake so I had her do little pearls. "-Abri

They all found out they were having a girl at the same time!! I LOVE this idea.


Here's the details in her words! Thanks Abriana for sending me the info on your party! Amazing job. Congrats again!! you are gonna love having a girl. :)

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I had so much fun planning it! The time between the ultrasound and the actual party (Tuesday was our ultrasound... Saturday was the party) were hard to wait, but so worth it in the end.

I did a lot of research Google-ing gender reveal parties and searching through other people's ideas. They are all the rage right now so there's plenty to go through. 

For decorations on our table, I just hit up Michael's and Party City one afternoon and spent about $70 on decorations. I started off at the scrapbook paper section since I knew I wanted to make the "Girl or Boy" sign using fun paper, and then once I had picked the paper, those colors were the inspiration for the rest of the decor. I ended up with royal blue and magenta colors and just went from there. I had the square vases from Pottery Barn that we use for decor at home with fillers, so I just used them. 

We only invited our parents, siblings, and a few close friends because we didn't want to assume that the gender of our baby was the most important thing going on for a lot of people's Saturday nights :) We told everyone to wear either pink or blue depending on what they thought the baby was-- then we also had pink or blue bead necklaces for people to wear as well. 

On the main display table, I only had pink or blue food: blueberries and strawberries, blue corn tortillas and salsa, and Izze sparkling juice in pink and blue. Then on a side table we had more snackies and wine for everyone! 

I was going to have a name voting section since we're undecided on our baby girl name, but ended up not having time for it. Thought it would be fun for people to think about while at the party. We ended up cutting the cake pretty early on, which was good since that's why everyone was there anyway! 

It was a really exciting night for our little family, and I'm glad we did it. Since it's my second pregnancy, and I have a toddler running around, it's easy to not think about being pregnant as much as I did with my first. So this was a nice way to celebrate my little second baby- and my first baby girl-- and give her some attention that her big brother may already be taking a bit!! :) 

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Ultrasound Reveal Party: Boy or Girl? (Check out all the fun party details!)

i will use any excuse to throw a party and have friends over.. 

why not have a party to let everyone know what you are having!? 

Our Gender Reveal Party was a blast to plan..it was soo fun! 

everyone kept saying how it was such a great way to make the pregnancy fun. 

We built up the suspense by eating dinner first and making everyone wait for dessert to find out! 

We hid jelly beans in the cupcakes with the color of the baby!

 (fyi don't put in jelly beans while baking..color melts off. haha. i ended up pushing them in the top and putting on some yummy frosting. problem solved. :)

 
**cooking two pans of enchiladas was easier than i imagined...except during the chaos i grabbed with my bare hand a handle from the pan of roasted corn i just pulled out of the oven... lets just say i had to cook the rest of the day with my right hand only. not so fun. (hand status: hurts but not blistering too bad! just a little... how fun.)**
Menu
Pioneer Woman's White Chicken Enchiladas/Cheese Enchiladas (click for recipe)
Roasted corn, Black Bean & Tomato Salad

Pineapple and Strawberries

Salad with variety of dressings

Chips

Salsa, Guacamole & Sour Cream

Dessert: Devil's Food Chocolate Cupcakes with vanilla frosting

Chocolate Cake with Pecans (brought by our Pastor..who thought he was hilarious with the wording on it. hehe.)

and for those who gave up sweets......honey bran muffins. :)

Drinks: Strawberry Lemon Fizz, Soda's, Sweet Tea

 
*the guests chose a blue or pink pin to show their vote! 
majority chose blue at the party! i made a bit of a mess while cutting out my paper dolls...hehe. my belly seems to be collecting more and more these days. ;) The signs on the fireplace say "Make your Vote!" and "Boy or Girl?" I also made up and printed out cupcake toppers using mailing labels i had around..just cut them down to size. they said "boy or girl?" i also had some clear label sheets and printed out some of the same graphic and put them on the paper doll cut outs! use what ya got right?? hehe.**

 
**i found these martha stewart felt sticks on sale for like two bucks at Michael's.. stuck them to clothespins and done! i strung them up across the fireplace and all the guests went there first to choose one!
i wanted to mark some of the menu items so i made up and printed out some tags..grabbed some fake limes from my kitchen and put them together with toothpick! (the oranges and limes in my kitchen are fake because i wanted constant color in my baskets but i kill fruit easily. ps that basket was like 5 bucks from a pottery barn outlet..it's actually for plants outside.)**

 

We are having another baby girl and are sooo excited!! 
Ben was proud that his guess was right. hehe. I thought for sure a boy because of how different this pregnancy has felt..(being sooo sick) but...i suppose this little girl is just gonna be a trouble maker from the start. ;)
 we are so in love!! how cute is she? hehe.

i told ben we are gonna save so much money because all of sophia's baby clothes will work (both will be born in august) and ben said sure we'll save money until it's wedding time!! (she's not even born and he's already thinking about their weddings!! hehe. i love him.

hope you all had a wonderful weekend. i'll be doing my usual monday's day in the life: random mama moments on wednesday! :) if you are friends with me on facebook don't post on my wall about this because ben wants to tell his youth group kids tonight in person!!


****Just added a Gender Reveal Party Package to my Etsy shop!
so if you want to throw a party like this i've already created the graphics for you...just print cut and assemble! celebrate!****
(i just created a custom package with pink and blue colors and will be adding that to my shop soon!..let me know what colors you would want and we can make that happen!)

Gender Reveal Party: Sneak Peek!

We had our ultrasound this morning...

and found out what we are having!!!! 

but you'll have to wait till tomorrow for that announcement!

i know..the suspense is killing you right?!?! hehe. to hold you over.. here are some sneak peeks of fun details i've been working on for the party tonight...i am so glad i have such a fun excuse to party for tonight!

i didn't want to ask everyone to wear pink or blue..kinda demanding haha. but the guests show their vote by wearing a blue or pink pin. found these cute felt stickers on sale at Michael's. dollar store bag of clothespins...project done.

ps. the baby is healthy and kicking around great!

 i am so in love today. :) with this baby and my amazing husband who was so cute when we found out. we told sophia what we're having..hopefully she doesn't decide to start speaking in full sentences and give it away!! ;)