Friends Gender Reveal Party

The day after we announced the gender of our baby to our family, we had a small scale Friend Gender Reveal! Monday, July 2nd, we had 3 couples (and another friend came later) over for the fun!

Crash, Laurel, Neil & I all wore blue - guessing boy
Caleb, Jessy, Emma, Dustin, Erin & Arayah wore pink - guessing girl!

After dinner, we played an old wives tale game. This time everyone had to guess whether each question (tale) meant boy or girl. Then I'd say whether or not I displayed this "symptom" of carrying a boy or a girl and put the pink or blue sticker on the board accordingly. Turns out, there really is a 50/50 chance of being right when you guess the gender of a baby! I had 11 clues pointing to each!  



Board made by Jessy! Isn't it awesome?!
As my grandfather used to say:
"Sugar & Spice & Everything Nice? OR Hammers & Nails & Puppy Dog Tails?"

Here are some pics from the evening:
Guys and dolls:

Neil and his daughter, Emma

Crash and his daughter, Arayah

Moms and Babies:

Me & Jessy (Emma's mom)

Me with Deanna!

Me & Nicole (Deanna's mom)

After we finished the game while eating dessert, Caleb and I decided to have them put together the gender reveal puzzle we made. This time, as opposed to how we did the family gender puzzle, we left a few key pieces out so they wouldn't read the end of the poem before it was all put together.


The beginning of the puzzle!

The final piece goes in!

Jessy told me later that she has never been so frantic to put a puzzle together in her life! Cracked me up!
Everyone was SO excited to find out he's a boy and his name! As you can tell from the above pictures, we are one of the very few of our friends who will have a boy vs. a girl this year! Lots of ladies for Bryson to choose from, I guess! lol I got some interesting faces from some of these dads when I said that, followed by a reminder that they have guns... UHOH! It begins... :)