Gender Reveal Party

 The new hip thing is to have a gender reveal party. I thought it would be fun to announce the gender in a fun way but with family living far away that could be expensive so I asked some friends if they wanted to do a party. A mutual friend of NaElle and I is only one week behind me and they found out the gender the same day I did. So we combined our news and got together on Sunday.

I have been dying for something char-broiled and Cody got a smoker for Christmas so I bought ribs for him to smoke. We told our ward we would teach primary one more time and since we already moved wouldn't be able to make dinner so we all had ribs and mashed potatoes. They were so yummy!

Sarah and Alex brought cupcakes with filling inside and one of them had the color of the gender. We brought a pinata with candy the color of the gender. First we ate dinner. Then we all picked what we thought we were having. I made bow ties and bows and you had to wear what you thought the genders were. Then we put a bunch of Old wives tales to the test. We tried them all out to see what they all said the gender was. Then we ate the cupcakes and hit the pinata. Such a fun night and it was on St. Patrick's day!

 I cut the meat off for Rylee thinking she wouldn't want to eat it off the bone. I was helping BJ with his meat since he had surgery on his lip and needed the meat cut off too when I turned around and saw her going to town on one of the ribs. She loved it! She even ate most of the left overs the next morning.  She loves meat.

 Sarah, Alex, Eli (their son), NaElle, Cody, Crue (their son was sleeping) working on the cupcake to see who had the one revealing cupcake.

 Matt, Camille, Lilly (their daughter), BJ working on their cupcakes.

 Sarah, and Jayze (NaElles brother and sister in law who is 14 weeks pregnant) working on theirs.

Rylee stole BJ's but Cody was the winner. It was filled with pink! They are having a girl! It was so fun to find out that way. The majority of wives tales said boy for her so she got a big kick out of it.

 We pulled our Mexican side out and bought a pinata. Who doesn't love a pinata??

 

I have a video of Rylee going to town on it. She laughed so hard. She would hit it and laugh and hit it again. She had a blast. We let her have at it for awhile before we let the adults break it. She thought it was the best thing ever. We will for sure do it again for her birthday!! 

 

  

Everyone was too cool to try so we had NaElle step up. Cody was in charge of pulling it out of the way so it took a few hits before she broke it open. Rylee was so astonished that she broke it. She said the rest of the night, "NaElle broke the colors!!" She kept looking at NaElle and saying that. It took a while to convince her that she was suppose to break it. 

 All the adults waiting to see the color of the candy. Rylee as the only kid old enough to hit the pinata.

 It's a BOY!!!!

Thanks Winco for having all Easter candy so we could have baby blue candy!

 

They might be too cool to hit the pinata but not too cool to collect the candy!

  

Rylee of course only grabbed one candy. She picked up 3 in total. We need to work on that.

 We spent the rest of the night just playing. Rylee took pictures of Daddy being silly

 And Uncle Matt being silly.

 It was fun to see the kids finally playing together. Rylee is the oldest and biggest but she still had fun.

 I love that everyone had green on. Great day to have a party. It was a blast. I think the gender reveal party really is a fun way to tell everyone.