The Joys and Journeys of Motherhood and Baby #2: How We Announced The Gender

Gender Reveal Date: Saturday February 14th 2015

Valentines Day! What better day to share the gender of our Sweet Pea than on the day of LOVE!

We had it planned to announce it to my family on this day and to Dennards family the same week on a free evening. When pioneering a church, its not very easy to find many free nights, let alone weekends to do and announce special things such as this. When a day opens up, we have to jump at it and book quickly! lol

Anyhow, we had planned for some time now two special ways of announcing to both families; unfortunately, we were only able to announce it according to plan for my family as, long story short, things didn't work out as planned and Dennard decided it was just best to call and tell his family
:( Not such a special way to announce, but it is what it is.

As for the reveal for my family, it went wonderfully and according to plan!!! I am happy at least one of the two plans worked out.

Here is how the reveal went :)

Everyone in my family was asked to wear the colour of the gender they thought Sweet Pea was.
My older sister Jennifer and her eldest daughter Ava came in pink; her youngest daughter Oliva wore blue (b/c my sister was torn on the gender! lol)
My middle sister Cheryl, her husband Rick and two boys Ryan and Grant wore blue.
My mom wore blue and my dad wore pink.

It was so cute to see everyone in one of the two gender colours. It was quite exciting see what everyone was wearing as they walked in the door.

Everyone was given a balloon in the colour they were wearing; those in pink got a pink balloon and those in blue got a blue balloon. Now ahead of time, I had put pin holes in all the blue balloons so they couldn't be blown up; even at the hardest attempt :) he he

The pin holes worked amazingly as they were so tiny, it was impossible to see them with the naked eye.

Anyhow, I let everyone have one final chance to switch their guess before they blew up their balloons; as I had suspected, everyone was confident in their gender of choice and no one wanted to switch.

At the count of three, iPad recording and all to capture the special moment, everyone blew up their balloons at the same time.

Only the pink balloons inflated when blown, whereas all the blue remained deflated because of the pin holes.

Within seconds of blowing, the room erupted in a roar of ITS A GIRL!!!!!! when they saw my older sister and dads balloons inflate. It was awesome!!!! The reaction of everyone was priceless; especially from those who thought Sweet Pea was a boy. lol

Everyone cheered and clapped and celebrated with us as we threw up pink balloons in the air.

It will be a memory and moment we will NEVER forget :)

The Morning of the Gender Reveal

20 weeks pregnant