So this wasn’t the topic I was going to write about today but that damn timehop app gets me all nostalgic. A year ago tomorrow was our big gender reveal party. The party I always said I would NEVER have. Ha! Never say never. I’m pretty sure my mom always told me that?. Why did we do it you ask??? Maybe the pregnancy hormones made me crazy? But really, we thought about waiting until the baby was born to find out the gender. Well we all knew that wasn’t going to happen!!! My husband is basically Inspector Gadget, spy camera and all, and I CANNOT handle surprises. So we thought why not have one of those gender reveal parties, but we will only invite our parents, siblings, and grandparents. After all, I do like to throw a good party???. Personally, I think there is a fine line on who actually cares if you are having a boy or a girl. At any rate, we went to our 20 week ultrasound, had the tech put the gender in a SEALED envelope, and brought it to Sweet Mandy B’s(one of the best bakeries in Chicago). It took everything in me to not look in that envelope. Besides the day I got engaged, I’m not sure I have ever really been surprised. I mean my parents got creative hiding Christmas presents but I always found them(sorry mom). Of course I couldn’t stop with just a gender reveal cake, so we had to pop a balloon with confetti in it. Which meant I had to order blue and pink confetti(the confetti bar www.confettibar.com has the CuTeSt confetti). We then brought the stupid envelope to party city and had them fill a black balloon with confetti. That balloon sat, well floated in our living room for TWO days until the party!!!! Lone and behold I had the shock of my life….it’s a BOY! What?!?!? I was 100% sure I was having a girl, I mean she already had a name!!! I’m still laughing at myself now. Good thing we had a party! I probably would have bought all pink just because my crazy pregnant a** thought it was a girl!! Really though, coming from the girl who said she would never do this-I’m so glad we did! Even my grandpa(who does not attend all events) and I’m pretty sure only came for the Portillos spread we were serving said how cool it was!
So, to gender reveal or not?!?! I’m not one to tell people what to do, all I’m saying is, it was pretty cool after all!
