Baby Gender Guessing Game

Tuesday was an exciting day at our house...one Dan and I have been looking forward to! Tuesday was the day we had our BIG ultrasound to determine the gender of our little baby. The gender really never mattered much but we were just excited to know! We originally thought we would find out at 20 weeks but after recently changing doctors, we found out that our new doctor checks gender at 17 weeks. We decided to keep our news that we would find out early a secret so that we could surprise all the family with the news early!

So first for a little background. We have a bit of family that live farther away, and since we were once one of them, we wanted to make sure they were equally included in our announcement since we know how hard it is to miss out on fun family events. So last week, prior to us knowing what the gender was, I mailed packages to those family members that were equipped with both boy and girl gender reveals and gave them strict instructions to not to even open the mailed package (that contained concealed packages inside) until they received permission:)

After our ultrasound, I quickly went and delivered packages on the doorsteps of those that live close by (just to immediate family members...sorry all extended family, there are just too many of you!). I simply dropped the packages off knowing that everyone would soon be arriving home from work, it still required some sneakiness though because I was cutting it so close to the time they would be home that I was afraid of getting caught! Anyways, once the packages were delivered I texted those who live far away that they could now open the main package and indicated which of the two concealed packages they should open. It was fun to see which family members got home (and/or to their cell phones) the quickest. Within the hour I received either texts or phone calls from all the family. It was so fun just waiting to hear from them all!

Here is a picture of my parents door step of the delivery

More up close...it had balloons for both genders

This was what was attached to all the packages:

Here are the forms:

My parents called letting me know they had found their package before I had left Layton so I decided to join in on their reveal so I could get some fun pictures.

This is of Rueben following my strict rules to put the guesses straight in the mailbox! Yes, I am a little persistent on wanting to have all the papers for memory sake!

Next came the time to open up the package....

Inside the package everyone found:

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!

We are excited to have a cute little girl join our family soon! Just a side note, we learned that our little girl sure is modest. I swear that we were with the ultrasound tech forever trying to get her to let us have a peek! I kept on thinking...it's not that big of a deal if we don't find out today, but I had already mailed all those packages and didn't think it would go over too well to tell all the family that lived away that they had to wait four more weeks to even figure out what their package was about! So I am glad she finally decided to cooperate just as the tech was about to turn off the machine:) We look forward to all the fun it will be to soon have her join our family.