I must say that this gender reveal party was the most wonderful celebration I could've asked for. Initially - I didn't really care to have this party. The second we found out it was a boy - I just wanted to go ahead and tell everyone. Partly because I just can't keep a secret for long and I wanted to wrap a Christmas present for our parents the next day. But also partly because almost EVERYONE thought baby was a girl. Brandon had me convinced he was a girl and everyone just couldn't stop talking about how I "needed" a girl because I had a boy and how fun it would be to buy girl clothes and ribbons and bows. Obviously everyone says "as long as it's healthy it doesn't matter the gender" but at the same time - you know that the family would love a girl to spoil and to be quite honest - I had my mind set on having a baby girl as well. So I kind of just wanted to tell everyone rather than having a big party and then everyone being like "aww. oh well." I think it took actually having everyone there and screaming and excited over our baby boy for me to really feel excited myself. I don't know why but I kind of felt like I was going to disappoint people by having another boy. Ridiculous, I know. But I'm just trying to be real here.
But our party was nothing but wonderful. All of our favorite people in the same place (minus just a few) and just a really good time of fellowship and fun. I loved that some of our friends didn't know each other until this party but still just sat down and talked and mingled and ate dessert and celebrated our second baby boy. I loved that both sets of our parents were there and G was running around showing everyone his new toys and eating way too many desserts. It really was just so perfect.
So the big reveal? I decided to go with envelopes this time. I just didn't want anything as stressful as cupcakes or something that people could figure out before it was time. I did REALLY good keeping this secret for a week and a half and I didn't want someone peeking and figuring it out before it was time. So I let everyone choose a sealed envelope with their guess on the outside. And I had a few for people that just didn't have a guess. Then we counted down and let everyone rip them open. It was fun seeing the people that were so proud that they were right and the few that couldn't believe that they were wrong. But it was a moment of pure fun. We have the best friends and family. Truly. We are so blessed.
Also - at this party we revealed our son's name. Because again - I just can't wait. We tossed around a couple other names but just kept going back to the first one. Grayson's little brother will be
Bennett James Hall
Oh, how I can't wait to meet him!
Good name!!
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