He? She? Open to see...

I knew I wanted to have a low key "Gender Reveal" dinner. I e-vited (best invention ever) our family and started planning. After much debate on the menu, we agreed simple was best. I got a frozen (gasp!) lasagna, my mom made yummy 5 cheese ziti and B's mom made a salad. We also had a ton of yummy desserts. I may or may not have skimped on dinner to gorge on haystacks and cake! :)

After our plates were barely empty, the family demanded we "reveal" the news! With out further ado, we decided to oblige.

I found the idea of using a box with the appropriate color balloons inside on Pinterest. When you open, the balloons fly up and reveals the sex. I had a box decorated two weeks in advance (go me!). However, after we bought the balloons, we found out it was way too small. My sweet huband could sense a small meltdown was about to occur, so he went to Home Depot and got the largest box he could find. The only problem, it was ugly and not decorated. I decided to "let it go"! Seriously, it's just a box and I could use picnik.com to forge my decoration. (Emily: 1, Hormones: 0!!)

my camera challenged mom took these!

We debated whether or not we wanted to find out at the u/s or wait to see with everyone else. I'm so glad we had that special moment together at the u/s. For a few hours, it was our little secret!

boy oh boy!

After revealing, I believe our mom's started to cry! It was so sweet to hear everyone's excitement. Our Tech gave us a dvd of the ultrasound, so we put that on to bore show everyone. I loved seeing him again. We were soon spoiled with sweet gifts. My Aunt was so kind and brought both boy and girl gifts. I know gender neutral gifts are great, but actually having something "blue" made it all so real!!

the sweetest gown! I cannot wait to bring our son home in this!

first pack of diapers...it's real  now!

his loot!

We had so much fun at the reveal and still cannot believe how truly blessed we are!