MooreBabies Gender Reveal Party!

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

Menu

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

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 *

He or She candy bars!
* I used sharpies for this *

Pink and Blue Candy
Hershey's Bliss Chocolates - Dark (pink) and milk (blue)
Raspberry Dark m&m's and York Peppermint Patty Pieces

Drinks
Blue Hawaiian Punch - I'm not gonna lie, there's not a lot of blue drinks out there
Pink lemonade

Leis for guests to "pick sides"

 and finally...

The wrapped box of balloons

The reveal

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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