Gender Revealing Cookout!

Crystal had suggested a gender revealing cookout towards the very beginning, when we found out we were pregnant. We definitely liked the idea, but wanted to make sure everything was ok with the baby/pregnancy first. The closer it got to finding out, we kept talking about the idea. We even debated on waiting to find out when everybody else found out (i.e. having the ultrasound technician write it out on a notecard and seal it and we would take it straight to a cake baker to make the cake w/ the appropriate color -- blue or pink). Although we thought that would be cool, we wanted to have "our" special time together, finding out. I'm soo glad we did it that way. What an amazing feeling finding out the gender of our baby that God has blessed us w/ - w/ the most important and amazing man in my life - my husband! :) TRULY a blessing!

So we found out Thursday at 11:00 and decided to have the cookout Friday night. It was going to be soooooooo HARD for us to keep that secret -- but 24 hours? -- we could do it (and we did!!) We decorated with pink and blue balloons, tablecloths, flowers, plates, cups, napkins, forks, spoons, knives, candy, etc. We also wore the color that we thought it was - and told some of the others too that they were more than welcome to do the same. The whole time I was thinking it was a girl ... I'm not sure why?? And the whole time Jonathan thought it was a boy ............. HE WAS RIGHT!!!! And I'm sooo glad he was! God knows exactly what we need at the exact time in our lives -- I have never felt more blessed than I do right now!

Soo we ate dinner (hot dogs, hamburgers, chips, baked beans, broccoli salad, etc.) and then for dessert ........... we revealed the gender by Natalie's AWESOME cake!! :) What we did was call her after we found out and she made the cake the color of the baby -- BLUE!!! -- and made the outside of the cake both colors so nobody would know until we cut into the cake! It was DELICIOUS!!





Can't WAIT to meet our baby BOY!! :)