One of these days I am going to catch up on, well... everything! It's been a busy few weeks, but that's besides the point.
YESTERDAY we had our gender reveal party for #3! For #1, I didn't want to find out, but hubby insisted. For #2, hubby was deployed and finding out just made it easier on me. SO for the third, it was MY CHOICE, and I wanted to have a Gender Reveal Party. I had first heard about these parties right after #2 was born and I knew I wanted to have one for our next child!
I had known about the cake, where you cut the cake and the cake itself is either pink or blue. But THEN I came across a
pin from pinterest (
while not even looking for it) that showed a photo shoot reveal where they had helium balloons in a large cardboard box and opened the box to see what color came out. How fun right?! So I figured those were my two options.
For having wanted to do one of these for a while, I didn't do ANY research until this past Thursday (
slacker!) because (a) before vacation I was busy planning a couples bridal shower and (b) we were waiting to see if the ultrasound tech could find out the gender before planning (
#2 was uncooperative during the ultrasound).
So once we got the OK from the tech, I sent out a last minute evite to a small low-key Saturday BBQ Lunch/ Pool/ Gender Reveal Party and ended up with 13 adults and 14 kids (
phew! Not as small as I thought, but still fun!)
For some reason I ALWAYS have to write a poem when it comes to parties (
luau, Christmas, etc) so here was the poem I wrote:
The doctors saw,
and we will soon, too,
if pinks in our future
or maybe its blue.
Join us this weekend
for a BBQ lunch
there'll be beer and wine
(for the kids, fruit punch)
So now is your time
to make your pick,
another girl for the Moore's,
or a junior Eric.
Wear your guess,
either pink or blue,
and bring a snack for
all to share too.
Then of course was the 4th of July, so that took precedence and I took a break from party planning.
But I picked up again late Thursday and Friday.
The Dessert Table
Aside from the desserts, I made hamburgers (
prepped in advance with green
peppers and onions mixed in) and hot dogs; all the guests brought a
side, snack, or dessert!
Easy!
Now onto the party
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Pink and Blue table
* Chocolate drizzled pretzles covered in pink or blue sprinkles *
* Red (I tried to find pink...) and blue jello *
* Pink and blue dipped marshmallow pops * |
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He or She candy bars!
* I used sharpies for this * |
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Pink and Blue Candy
Hershey's Bliss Chocolates - Dark (pink) and milk (blue)
Raspberry Dark m&m's and York Peppermint Patty Pieces |
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Drinks
Blue Hawaiian Punch - I'm not gonna lie, there's not a lot of blue drinks out there
Pink lemonade |
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| Leis for guests to "pick sides" |
and finally...
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| The wrapped box of balloons |
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| The reveal |
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| Someone edited my "boy or girl" sign on their way out! |
Here is what I posted to facebook (
after I stopped laughing at the fact that we were having our THIRD girl... poor super outnumbered hubby)!
There were 2, but pink I see, now our count of girls is 3!
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Hubby and I weren't so sure. I think hubby is more used to my homemade cookies that I bake and store in the freezer for when the "cookie craving" hits (when my husband doesn't eat them all) and I don't really purchase cookies in the store. So I don't really think they are for us.