Our Second Gender Reveal Party!

This was the second gender reveal party that we have thrown (click here to check out our first gender reveal party), and I was pretty happy with the way it went!  We decided to make it a sort of end-of-summer barbecue/gender reveal party, but I still wanted to do some of the fun little gender reveal details.

(Our gender reveal party invitations)

We had a voting board and little tags that people could wear according to their guesses - blue ties for boys and purple bows for girls.  I stuck with the blue/purple color scheme from our invitations for all my decorations, and I think it tied everything together well.

Derek and I painstakingly traced and cut out each of those ties and bows, but I have to give full props to Derek for the way he drew the lines on them - I think that detail definitely made them look finished and intentional!  I didn't know my hubby was so artistic.  I also made up a sheet that explained the differences between my first and second pregnancies, pretty similar to the info I posted in my Old Wive's Tale post!

It just so happened that all my cravings this time around fit in nicely with a barbecue menu, so we served some of the items that I craved during this pregnancy!  I made a little card so the guests could see everything I craved and make an educated guess as to whether it was a boy or a girl.

I didn't get pictures of all of our guests (even though I tried!), but here are a few with people that I suspect won't mind being shown on the blog!  

First row: My mom and sister and aunt and cousin (and me of course)!

Second row: My friend Danae and our baby bumps!

Third row:  My friend, Ashley, and me!

My little guy did great, and got passed around all over the place!

My sister with my son on the left, me and him on the right:

We did a few different games, which I'm going to cover in a separate post, but here are the teams (Team Boy and Team Girl) discussing their answers for one of the group games:

For the big reveal we decided to do a scavenger hunt!  I made up clues based on nursery rhymes, and the final clue led to a package that would reveal the gender.  It started to sprinkle so we had to hurry through the outside clues a bit, but I think it turned out well!

1. Derek and I read the first clue.

2. Ashley's husband found one of the clues.

3. Danae's husband found the final package, and opened it . . .

And it's a girl!

We are so thrilled and excited to be expecting our first daughter!

After we revealed the gender we served blueberry and strawberry cheesecake for dessert (cheesecake was another one of my cravings)!  Then we got a chance to visit with everyone and enjoy the rest of the party, which was nice.

Scott and Danae also ignored the clear instructions on our invitation to not bring presents.  But we kind of ignored the clear instructions not to bring a present to their gender reveal party too, so I guess they get a pass!  

Honestly, it was so sweet of them to bring us a little gift, and when I opened it, I wanted to cry. . .

Danae knows what it is to wait for a little one, and she knows what we went through to get this sweet baby, so the onesie was perfect and  really touched my heart.  We are so humbled and excited that God blessed us with this little (girl!) miracle!

I'll do a post tomorrow with more details on the games we did for our second gender reveal party (they aren't the same gender reveal party games that we did last time), so check back then!