Backyard Gender Reveal Party

We have finally discovered the gender of our baby! It was a really long 22 weeks of not knowing what was going on up in there. We were able to put our Gender Reveal Party on my birthday weekend which was kind of a fun combination! We had a lot of wonderful friends and family that joined us for the weekend!

Since it was a small get together, about 20 people, we decided to keep the festivities small and pretty tame. We used our chalkboard collection and some dollar store tassel banners to decorate. Otherwise, the reveal image was the star of the show! I'll show you that later in this post. It was really awesome.

I am notorious amongst my students for my absolutely love of all things Little Mermaid and Brennan is well known for loving his Dallas Cowboy football team. So we decided to have our party inspired by that. As folks came in for the party we asked them to cast their vote for the gender using paint chips and throwing them in the basket.

Total count for Cowboy: 17. Mermaid: 12.

A Gala Affair

The company that my Dad works for was hosting a formal event as a fundraiser recently and my Mom was unable to go soooo that means I got to get all gussied up to spend a little fun time with my Dad! It was awesome, I feel like I don't get to do that enough anymore since schedules have been so crazy!

 

Here we are looking all #fly! lol

 

 

Not gonna lie I definitely got my dress at JCP but I received a lot of compliments on it! The theme of the gala was "Mardi Gras" so the sparkle worked out great for the theme. Plus the food was AMAZING. Oh and the free wine! It was local Palisade, Colorado wine. Probably the best stuff you can get.

We had a lot of fun! I even got him to dance one dance with me! It was really special and reminds me just how important family really is, especially your parents. I don't think I would have traded that night for anything and I'm very grateful that I got to go!

Love you Dad!