Twin gender reveal party details

Check out yesterday's blog if you want to see our reaction to finding out we were having two more boys. Today I'm posting pictures of the details. I have to say again that my cousin and her friend took care of all the details. They get all the credit. Seriously, every single detail was color coordinated. Pink symbolized is we were having two girls, blue for two boys, and yellow for one of each.

Here is my cousin's staircase banner decorated pink, blue, and yellow.

Guests were asked to sign a onesie with their guess.

Blankets were wrapped for each baby to reveal the sex.

Even the drinks and straws were color coordinated! Pink lemonade, lemonade, and blue koolaid and mason jars with yarns in a bow.

Adorable hand made pink, blue, and yellow wreath on the front door.

The invitation and color coordinated flowers

The candles were wrapped in pink, blue, and yellow chevron.

Gender Reveal

Ok, I don't want to bombard you with too many pictures so today I will share pictures of us finding out we were having two boys and then tomorrow I will post pictures with details of the party.

I guess I need to explain the reveal first. So, in my family, my aunt makes all the babies blankets. So my cousin decided for the reveal we would open gifts that had blue or pink blankets inside.

I should also mention that I've thought all along we were having two boys and kind of wanted to wear blue to the party but thought I would wear pink to make the pics better. I think my ig friends picked the shirt too.

Ok, here we go. Opening the gift that would reveal the sex of baby A.

Blue!

Opening the gift to reveal the sex of baby B.

Baby B's blanket is blue and green. All I saw was green and I was confused what that meant.

Oh, it's blue!!!

I'm having two more boys!!!

Proud parents with both blue blankets.

Big brother wasn't so sure about two more boys.

Until he heard he could have a cupcake then he was fine.

My cousin and her friend planned the whole party and took care of all details. I literally showed up so they get all credit!

Gender Reveal Party Ideas

I'll be 16 weeks on Wednesday which means I will schedule my 20 week ultrasound for 4 weeks from Wednesday which means we have picked a date for the gender reveal party! I have been thinking about this party for a long time. I see a lot of people doing the cakes/cupcakes or the balloons in a box and I wanted to come up with some different ways for the gender of the babies to be revealed. Here are some of the ideas I have come up with:

• Sparklers- I have no idea if they make sparklers in different colors but I thought that would be a neat idea.
• Fire works- Again, totally don't know if this is possible but was an idea I got around 4th of July.
• Snake in a can- You know those prank cans that pop stuff out. I thought it would be cool if they made those with different colors inside.
• Confetti present- I made this list awhile ago. I guess I was thinking a box full of confetti?
• Balloon drop- I thought it would be fun if the balloons dropped instead of were in a box.
• Fortune cookie
• First child's diaper- obviously a clean one but thought that might be a funny way to include the first kid.
• Piñata- with balloons or confetti or both or colored candy
• Write it on the first child's diaper- Have the kid actually wearing the diaper with the gender on it and the parents have to pull their pants down or something.
• Have the first child tell you
• Ball drop
• A present with gender specific clothes, toys, bibs, shoes, etc.
• Silly string- Can you buy silly string in different colors? The parents and or first kid can spray each other with the colored silly string.
• Have a big stork it's a boy or it's a girl balloon in box
• First child's toy box filled with balloons

Those are a few of my ideas I haven't seen other people do. Do you have any creative ideas?

Sister-in-love's baby girl shower

I had such a great time co hosting my sister-in-love's baby girl shower. I can't wait until she gets here! The theme was ribbons, bows, and pretty pink toes. The color theme was orange, pink, and gray.

Out front of the party. The dry erase board I got at hobby lobby.

A cute picture of my sil's belly by the party favor nail polish.

Each nail polish had a tag that said ribbons and bows and pretty pink toes.

Welcome sign my co-host my sil's sister made with her cricut.

Some of the clothes I bought my niece. She's pretty spoiled.

Each center piece was pink carnations in a jar with a headband my co-host made around it.

For lunch we had sandwiches and salad.

Dessert was made by a friend of my sil's. She's so talented!

I forgot to get a picture of the drink table. Our cousin made a yummy orange drink with champagne. We had cute pink striped straws from hobby lobby and some water and pink lemonade. It was a great party and all our hard work looked great!

Chase's 2nd birthday party details

I have to first tell you that I stole all the ideas off pinterest. I came up with having a coloring table. That's it.

Cones on the front steps. Oh, this was my idea too.

When you walked in the door there was a race track that went through the kitchen and around to the front again for the kids to ride their cozy coupes and trikes on.

Flags from dollar tree above coloring table.

Favors. Dollar tree car with two trophies in a clear favor bag from party city. I tagged a dollar tree balloon to them too.

Close up of favor label.

Cake made by Grandma.

 

Sign from dollar tree.

I saw this idea on pinterest and thought it would be fun but wasn't sure where to get a tire. Coincedentally my dad needed new tires for his motorcyle which meant I had to pick him up from the motorcylce shop. When we were leaving the shop there was a stack of tires by the dumpster and my dad made a joke about needing tires. I said I do need a tire! So we asked if we could borrow one. They said yes as long as we brought it back to be recycled.

I got the hacky sacks at party city.

 

 

I found a picture of the checkered image on google. I added on the text on pic monkey and printed them at home.

Stoplight cupcakes.

 

I found checkered duct tape at wal mart and wrapped it around the water bottle labels.

I made the winner's circle banner on picmonkey.com. I found the bunting at party city in the patriotic aisle.