It's a Girl! 4th of July Gender Reveal

The gender reveal went great. Not perfect because nothing ever is but it was great! We had a great spread of 4^th of July themed food. A wives tale quiz to see what gender it indicated (girl) and a names list. Then we went outside to let the kids do some little fireworks until dark. Everyone was very anxious to start the fireworks but I said I wanted it to be dark so we could get a good video for memory and to share with friends and Facebook. Unfortunately the closer to dark the more windy it got. And right as we started getting ready we heard lots of sirens and saw smoke. There was a fire in the neighborhood on the hill next to us. We decided to do the firework anyway because hello it was the reason we were all there. Kyle hid behind a box which was originally there to hide whether he was lighting pink or blue but ended up coming in handy to get the firework actually lit. Then it wouldn’t light and David went to help him while we all anxiously waited. Finally it lit and blew up about 5 -10 feet off the ground! It was pink!!! We were all cheering, screaming, excited and shocked.

I think Kyle and David nearly peed their pants when it went off right above them and then they were stomping out the grass!! We all missed this because we were too busy celebrating. At that point we stopped all fireworks because the wind was just too crazy and seeing what happened with the gender firework scared us on what could happen.

Most of our family thought boy so everyone was pretty shocked it was a girl. I told them I had already known for 4 days and I was still shocked. Casen was so excited to find out he is getting a baby sister and Cooper was disappointed but didn’t cry or anything.  Later they both ran up to me and hugged my belly. They had a fun evening and are excited for the new baby to arrive.

Wednesday morning Casen climbed on the couch next to me and said ‘I just want to check on baby sister (pat my tummy) yep, she’s good’  And I melted.

Thursday morning he ran into daycare telling his teachers he is getting a baby sister.

Ordered this invite from Etsy

The food spread. Jen came over and helped me get everything ready which she did with the other two so it was fun doing it all again.  We had- a flag meat, cheese, and cracker tray, red and blue berries with cool whip, veggies and chips with dip, BBQ klobase, cookies, chickfila nuggets (thanks to Mimi), and a flag oreo ball tray (thanks to Lusa and Babi).

Mimi also brought a basket of popcorn treats for everyone in the basket below the table

Aunt Jen Jen made these shirts for the boys

I filled out the wives tale board

Team Girl

Team Boy

Our sweet family of 4. Jen made my shirt that said red, white, and due.

Jen is the best friend. Kyle and I are so lucky to have David and Jen in our lives. 

Doing some of the little kid fireworks until dark

The gender reveal firework blowing up!!

I saw something similar on pinterest so with Jen behind the camera and Susan, my mom, Melisa, and I holding sparklers we created this for the announcement. I was shocked we actually got it to work (thanks to Jen for knowing what to do with camera settings)