How we found out we're having a boy...

About a month ago, a few weeks before our 20 weeks ultrasound, Landon and I were browsing the internet and came across the idea of a gender reveal party on someone's blog--where they used a cake to tell their friends and family if they were having a boy or girl.  Immediately we though that sounded like fun and tossed around the idea of having our own--except we thought it would be fun to find out at the same time as everyone else. 

Over the next week or so we began brainstorming how to do that--because we wanted to do something different than a cake.  We tossed around the idea of Sprinkles cupcakes (mainly just because they're amazing), but they don't come in any shade of blue and they're kinda expensive when you're talking about buying them for 25 people.

And then, my genius husband came up with the idea of buying a king's cake (since it's king cake season) and having a blue baby put in if it's a boy and a pink one if it's a girl.  So, we found what was said to be the best King's Cake bakery in Houston (Acadian Bakery, if you're wondering--and yes, they really were that good :)) and went with it.

And then, before we knew it, we we'd had our ultrasound and it was time to get ready to find out if our little was a boy or a girl.

So,we cleaned the house, picked up the cakes and called some of our best friends, Blake and Morgan.  The bakery wouldn't actually put the baby in the cake for us, because they didn't want to be sued if someone choked on it or something, so we had to figure out Plan B.

And, Plan B was so fun. :)

 

 We Skyped Blake and Morgan and, with our eyes closed, showed them the card from the ultrasound that said if we were having a boy or a girl and told them not to react.  Then, we showed them two more envelopes--one with a little pink baby in it and one with a little gold (we couldn't find blue :)) baby in it and they told us which envelope had the baby we needed to put in the cake.  So, Landon took the baby out (without looking, because that that point we were more anxious about accidentally seeing it after we'd waited for so long already to not find out before the party) and closed his eyes and put it in one of the cakes.  Then, I came in and moved the cakes around so that neither of us knew where in the cake the baby was or which cake it was in.

We both breathed a little sigh of relief when that was done and then finished getting set up for the party--a little cooking, a little more decorating and making some party favors to hand out to our guests.

And then finally, the guests began arriving.  We hung around and talked and ate and mingled for a while until everyone arrived, and then it was finally time. :)  First, we took Team Blue and Team Pink pictures. 

After the photo op, Landon talked a little about King's cakes and what we were doing with our cakes and then Matt cut the cakes into 24 equal slices for us so that all of the pieces would be taken.

 Everyone grabbed a piece and began looking through it to see if their piece had the baby!  For what seemed like an eternity, no one said anything.
  Then, Matt and Rachel (below :)), tossed a little gold baby onto my plate and I screamed a little and said something really cool like " you're supposed to yell what it is!" and then a couple of us shouted "it's a boy!"  It was a VERY surreal moment.  I kissed Landon and we couldn't stop smiling!  We were thrilled, but it was crazy to find out something that big in front of 20 of your closest friends and family.  SO fun, but crazy at the same time. :)
  After we could think straight, Landon went and got the envelope with the card from the nurse, just to make sure Blake and Morgan told us the right baby.  They did. :)

Our first baby boy gift, from my parents.

And, there was more fun to come.  When people walked in, we had them fill out a little piece of paper where they said if they thought it was a boy or a girl and then they had a place where they could suggest a name.  Some were serious and most were not! :)  Landon and I read off the names and we all got a good laugh!  I think my favorite was Rufus.  Rufus Speights--it had a nice ring to it, right?

And, we spent a few minutes introducing everyone, since all of my family and Landon's parents were there, along with a lot of our close friends.  We thought it was time for all of our favorite people to officially meet each other. :)

And then, we all just spent the next few hours hanging out and talking and laughing.  It was pretty much exactly how we'd hoped the evening would be.

Thank you to our friends and family to come over and celebrate with us.  We couldn't have imagined a more perfect way to celebrate finding that our little baby is a boy!