It's a.... Gender Reveal Party

August 2, 2014

It was FINALLY time to find out the sex of our baby! Our ultrasound was on August 1, and I was really nervous for some reason. It took some time but everything was looking good. We had the tech, Lisa, send a quick email to Barb at Sweet Cakes to make our cake so we wouldn't know what we were having until we revealed it at our party. That worked out great!

We had just our parents (with Kara and Grandma Wanda) and just some very close friends over for the party. We had some snacks and played a little guessing game with the various old wives tales they say help you determine the gender, and then it was time to find out! Everyone thought that I couldn't wait to find out what it was and would cheat (or that we were just saying that we didn't know) but it was honestly a surprise when we cut into our yummy cake and found PINK frosting. It's a GIRL! Now we have so much to do... decorating, name choosing, yikes! So much to do!

It was so amazing to spend such fun time with our family and those couple of friends, and we are so happy to share little Baby Girl Hoek with you all soon! (20 weeks, or a little less I hope, to go!)

^Our little set up for the whole party, lots of blue and pink for whatever we were having!

^Cute elephants on the cake by Barb of It's Personal by Sweet Cakes :)

^"Guest book" and "guess list"

^I asked Pete using the pink and blue Hershey Kiss bags what he thought the baby would be. He picked pink.

^Logan hugging Pete.

^Everyone had to wear our stickers :)

^Seeing if any of the old wives tales are correct.

^Thanks to Judi for taking all the photos!

^Most of them point toward it being a girl.

^Holding the list of family and friends who guessed the gender.

^Last we made everyone sign the tree with the color they thought the baby would be. Mason signed too.

^Ica was in Florida so we called her via Facetime on the iPhone so she could watch too (with her sister Jacquie too :)

^I was so nervous... it's pink!

^They were the minority at the party, but Team Pink (Logan, Erika, Charyl and Mike) were the winners!

^The rest of us (Mason, Jason, Judi, Mom, me Dad, Grandma, Kara, Lenore, Mike and Ron) were wrong!

^LOSERS! But we don't mind!

^There she is! Look at that cute little nose :D