Baby Brunch

I can't believe that it is the beginning of February and I am just now getting around to blogging about all of our Christmas Festivities, but I am super excited to get to share this post with everyone!

I have always known that when I became pregnant I didn't want to find out the sex of the baby, but a couple weeks before my 20 week ultrasound I realized that I hadn't really discussed this issue with Mike. Once we started talking I was a little surprised to find out that he wanted to find out the sex and this wasn't really an issue he was going to waver on. So we came to a compromise: we could find out the sex of the baby, but I didn't want to do it in an ultrasound room in front of a complete stranger.

He agreed and the following is the plan we came up with...
Since the ultrasound was going to be a week before Christmas I thought it would be neat to have the tech write the sex of the baby down on a card and we would wait to open it until Christmas Eve were we could share this experience with both families.

Mike's parents hosted a brunch for both families at their house on Christmas Eve morning. After stuffing ourselves with great food, it was time for the big reveal. Originally we were just going to open the card, but when we went in for the ultrasound appointment our tech told us we would get to take home a DVD of the entire ultrasound. So we decided to prolong everyone's anticipation (including ours) and we watched 30-45 minutes of the ultrasound video until finally there it was on the TV screen, 3 words that changed our lives forever...

I'M A GIRL!

Ultimately we didn't care what the sex was, as long as the baby was healthy. But I think Mike would have loved to have a boy and I really wanted a girl. Actually I wanted a girl sooooo badly that I had convinced myself it was a boy hoping it would prevent me from being disappointed. So I was genuinely surprised that it was a girl.

Once we all celebrated and were given plenty of name suggestions:), the Grandparents presented us with books for our little girl. The Grandfathers gave her "I Already Know I Love You" by Billy Crystal and the Grandmothers gave her "Guess How Much I Love You" by Sam McBratney. Then, Mike and I gave each family a picture frame with an ultrasound picture so they would remember this special day. I even found a perfect frame for our house that Mike got to open.

This was such a fun and exciting day. I am so glad that we found out we were having a little girl in the presence of the people that love us the most. Hope you enjoy pictures from that morning.

I can not end this post without giving a HUGE thanks to my mom who took all the pictures that morning. There was so much going on I forgot to even get my camera out. Without her we wouldn't have had any pictures of this fun event. Thanks Mom, I love you!