Gender Reveal Party!

Happy September! I honestly can't believe August is over! The Fall is my favorite time of year but also very busy. Not to mention, we have lots of preps to do for our sweet babies. But before I start rambling about everything I need "to do", this post is about our big party over the weekend!

We finally spilled the beans on the genders of our two sweet babes over the weekend. We were given "a guess" about their genders at our 12 week appt, it was confirmed at 16 weeks, and again at 20 weeks. Needless to say, it was a tough secret to keep for over 8 weeks! But I knew all along I wanted to have a gender reveal party (as I wanted one with William, but it never worked out). I planned a very simple, low key party with our families and everything turned out perfectly!

We went back and forth about how we would actually do the "reveal". We decided to purchase two black balloons filled with blue confetti in each one. We wanted to include C&W, so we figured each child could pop a balloon for each baby. 

I kept the "meal" very simple so I could focus on a few simple desserts. We really wanted the focus to just be on the babies but also on C&W. It's hard for me to keep things simple, but I am so glad I did.  The party was everything we could have hoped it would be and very low stress for me!

I created a chalkboard to keep a tally of everyone's votes.

And I printed off "team" stickers for everyone to wear.

I made two tassel garlands to use with the balloons, but the original ones made them too heavy so we had modify them. With the leftover tassels, I quickly turned them into a banner to hang on the deck.

Cate loved being in charge of writing down the votes and passing out the stickers.

After we ate and before the reveal, we took pictures of each "team" (+ me)

Team BOTH

Team BLUE

Team PINK

Cutie cousins!

Almost go time!

1st balloon = BLUE!

2nd balloon = BLUE!

We were thrilled to announce we would be welcoming TWO more boys to our family!

After the balloon pop, Cate didn't really say much. William just asked to pop more balloons! Ha!

We had family videoing the pop from the deck, but my hubs also set up another video tripod where we were for a view of our guests. It's been really fun to watch it back and watch everyone's reactions!

After the initial excitement, we came back inside for desserts. I fixed a BLUE cake to add to the BOY excitement!

 

We couldn't be more excited about these two sweet boys and our growing family!!