snips and snails.....

We're having a boy!   

Whew!  what a whirlwind few days it has been!  I will try to catch you up as concisely as possible!  :)    On Thursday C and I had our appointment where we THOUGHT we were scheduled to have an anatomy scan and find out the gender of our sweet baby.  WELL...when we got there we were told we weren't scheduled and that next week would be the week to do it (since I'll be exactly 20 weeks then) and would that work.  I now realize that the look I gave her was probably a bit rude, but I promptle responded "no that won't work.  We will be gone all week."  To make a long story short she squeezed us in right then and there!  We were so glad that it all worked out (especially since we had a big gender reveal party planned for that night!).  The ultrasound went perfectly, our little boy looks to be developing perfectly at this point and actually looks like a human now, compared to the grey dot we saw on the screen last time we had an ultrasound. 

Thursday night we had our big party to reveal the gender.  We had a house FULL of wonderful family and close friends.  It was so great to have those we love gathered together.  I had SO much fun planning for the evening--everything was pink and blue.....right down to the drink choices!  Our guests were instructed to wear pink or blue (depending on what "team" they were on) to the party.  I totally thought that team pink would be the larger team, but BOY was I wrong!  There were FAR more blue than pink.....maybe they knew something we didn't!  :)  The evening went well and when it was time to cut the cake (which would reveal the gender) we decided that my mom and C's mom should be to first to find out, so they were the ones to cut the cake.  As they were discussing how to go about this I said "you just both cut from opposite sides."  Well, that's all it took for them to dive right in!  My sweet mother-in-law was so anxious to find out that she just hacked right in....it was rather hard to cut the cake into slices from her side!  There were cheers and shocked reactions from those who KNEW they were right and that we were "positively" having a girl  :)  I'm so glad that we chose to reveal the genderto our familes this way.  While it was extrememly difficult not spilling the beans all day it was kinda fun for C and I to have this "secret" that no one else knew for a little while!  :) 

I intended to have this post up for you by yesterday afternoon, when we would be relaxing in Sanibel FL with my dad's family.  At that point everyone in our family would know and it would be public knowledge.  I'm quickly learning that the best laid plans are OFTEN ruined!  I suppose that's something I'll constantly have to keep in mind with a little one running the show!  :)  Since my dad works for Delta we fly super cheap but at the expense of flying stand-by.  Being that it was a holiday weekend we tried to get the earliest flight possible to Sanibel (hoping that it would be too early for most and that the seats would be wide open) which meant getting up to leave our house at 3AM..... WRONG!  we got bumped from 3 flights for the first leg and finally made it to Atlanta where we were bumped from about 4 more flights before we gave up and rented a car to drive the 10 hours from Atlanta to Sanibel.  I'll save all the details for a late post when I can unravel exactly what happened on our journey....looking back it's quite comical, but at the time we weren't laughing one bit!  Needless to say, we arrived at the condo in Saibel some time around 2AM this morning....for a grand total of 23 hours of traveling!  All that, to say that our family here found out later than expected--which meant I couldn't post the news for you yet either!  :)  As soon as we've recuperated from the long trip I'll upload some pictures from the party as well as the first edition of "bump watch"

Thanks for stopping by!

**update.....so to add to the adventure....yesterday afternoon there was the storm of all storms here in Sanibel....lightning struck near the pool at our condo and knocked out the routers on the property as well as striking a water main, which resulted in the water being turned off most of the day today while they fixed it--NOT a convenient thing when you're at the beach and covered in salt and sand!  anyway, couldn't get this posted for you then, so you get pictures now as well!  bonus!  :)  enjoy!

it's blue!

the hacked into cake....blue inside!

Bump watch: 19 weeks

so apparently my camera was on the wrong setting when taking pictures of the party so the photos are really dark and you can't really see anything.....I'm going to work on getting them lighter with the program on my computer and I'll post those later....sheesh! maybe I'll get everything together at some point!  :)