It's a Boy!!!

 

     Last Friday, we got to find out the gender of baby M!! Since we are both really close to our family, and know it takes a village to raise a baby, we decided to have a gender reveal party where we would find out the gender of the baby with our family.  I decided on a "what will our little pumpkin be?" theme.  All the decorations were fall/pumpkin related and the food was an Oktoberfest theme. My sister-in-laws contributed to the good eats with homemade pretzels, potato salad, and a meat, pickles, and cheese tray. I provided the sausages, kraut, and spaetzel. 

Obviously, the main part of the party was finding out the gender of our baby and we decided we would have my sister-in-law, who is a chef, dye the inside of a cake pink or blue based on the gender. It was really important to me that neither of us knew the gender prior to cutting into the cake. So I had the ultrasound tech seal the gender in an envelope that I handed over to a coworker who texted my sister-in-law the gender so she knew what color to dye the cake. Below are the pictures from the party(taken by Nikki, of course). Some of the captions will provide more information about the details of the party or recipes on making the items yourself. Enjoy!

This was outside by the front door so people saw it as they walked in. The sign said " What will our little pumpkin be?"

This was the dessert table

These are brownie bites in the shape of pumpkins.

Recipe for Brownie Bites shaped like pumpkins:

Make brownies using your normal recipe. Once out of the oven let cool for 15 minutes. Once cool, but still slightly warm, cut a square of brownie place a peanut butter cup in the middle and roll the brownie square around the peanut butter cup so that it is in a shape of a ball. Let cool. Once completely cool, melt orange candy coating. Roll brownie bite in melted orange. Slice a tootsie roll in half and use as the stem. The "pumpkins" on top were Reese's free.

The cake and the sign!

The sign by the cake "What will our little pumpkin be?"

The cake my sister-in-law made with the gender hidden inside

Take-home gift  were loaves of flavored dessert breads (chocolate pumpkin, carmel apple, or french vanilla) and the sign in front of the basket said " Thank you LOAVES for joining in our special day".

Old Wives Tales board and then pink or blue pumpkins to wear based what they thought the baby was.

The prize (cookies) for those who guessed the gender correctly. The tag on the cookies said "Good guess! You're one smart cookie".

It's a BOY!!!!

 Francis was very happy (so was his dad)!

I just had a feeling it was going to be a boy! I was really happy too, but couldn't resist celebrating that I was right!