Button or Bow Tie Gender Reveal

  

This past Friday, we celebrated a very special gender reveal party with some dear friends. Our theme if you haven't guessed was button or bow tie and our colors were yellow and gray. I love these sweet colors and how perfectly gender neutral they are. Plus they along with mint green will be making an appearance in the nursery.

Our gender reveal party was a night of wonderful celebration filled with sweet treats, friendships, and an exciting reveal. To prepare, Ray and I set the table with a variety of treats including a fruit platter with caramel sauce, cupcakes topped with yellow buttons, queso and chips, as well as hand crafted button and bow tie sugar cookies from Meemos bakery.

Talk about super adorable and absolutely delicious dessert.

 

At 7PM, our guests joined us and the party began. I am so thankful for these sweet friends to share our lives with and our exciting news. This baby is truly blessed and already so very loved. Plus she has some very sweet little friends that she will grow up with.  



Paige, Stephanie, and Kristin, with sweet Em & M

My college roommate Daniela (22 weeks) and I (20 weeks) 

 Daniela, Robert, and baby Cox

 Adam and Stephanie Duke with little Miss Emily 

 

After much catch up and conversation, we sampled the dessert table and prepared ourselves for the reveal. Each person was given a yellow balloon filled with confetti as well as a push pin. (Thank you love for filling the balloons.) The plan was to pop the balloons together, but sadly, my balloon malfunctioned and pretty pink It's a Girl confetti dropped to the floor. I was a little stunned. But quickly cheers rang out and all balloons had been popped. It brought as smile to my face. And even though it had not gone exactly as planned, it was so wonderful to share such perfect news with those we loved.

 

 

Bryson loved playing "hockey" as he skated across the floor in socks hitting a poweraid bottle cap with his feet. It was beyond adorable and had me thinking how much I would love to make confetti angels with my body. I did resist though. There were two balloons left and B and Ray popped them together! I love this action shot. 



 



Cute diaper bouquet and box of diapers from sweet friends

 

We are all truly blessed by these gifts. The gift of our little girl, our best friends, and of sweet gestures from those we love. What a wonderful night of celebration and surprises! 

 

Happy 20 weeks to my little girl,
Aubrey Rose Zellner



My Girl!

 

I cannot stop thinking about this beautiful face. The perfect little baby, long legs, and adorable little nose. We are truly blessed to have this life growing inside of me and are truly thankful for our new addition that will be joining us in early October.

For as long as we knew we were expecting, we couldn't wait to call our baby by name. We had names picked out for quite some time but couldn't wait to find out if we'd have a daughter or son... even though we were almost positive we were having a sweet little boy. This past Wednesday, after 20 weeks of waiting, we would sure find out. As our gender reveal party was set to Friday evening, our intention was to wait and find out then, but on the morning of our appointment, we found ourselves with changes of heart. We couldn't wait one more moment. Our appointment was at 9:20 in the AM. We quickly made our way inside and saw our sweet babe. While our sono tech was not blessed with the warm and fuzzy's, I will say she knew her stuff. She explained the chambers of the heart, the brain, the placenta... and of course a whole bunch of information that was over my head. But what she did explain was that we were expecting a healthy baby. That was music to my ears. I also found out that the baby was breech which really means very little as the baby can shift any which way over the next 20 weeks. The baby's head is facing my spine and feet well below. This explained quite a bit as I have felt that our little one was playing piano on my bladder. Because the baby was snuggled up so tightly and facing the wrong direction, the tech even turned on the 3D so we could get a better look. Talk about a special moment as we could see little one's special features including the most adorable little nose. We decided that we did not want to find out at the doctor's office, but take some special time just the two of us. We had a card that our nurse wrote the gender on. We would open it that afternoon together. 

After our morning appointment, we made our way to the Shops at Fairview and dinned at Purple Cow for lunch. We enjoyed cheese burgers, fries, and a chocolate milkshake, YUM! After our tummies were full, we found a special spot and opened the card.  

 

To our complete surprise and blessing of course... we read, "It's a GIRL!" For weeks we had both assumed we were expecting a little boy as many signs pointed that direction. But we couldn't be more excited for our sweet little lady. We are having a daughter!

 

Our little girl, Aubrey Rose Zellner 

 I love the relationship both Ray and I will have with our sweet girl. It blesses my heart just thinking about how our little family will change. God is so good.

After our lunch, we bought some very special little onesies and began planning for her arrival. We were so excited for the reveal party and to share our sweet news to our friends and family.