Happy 2014 and Gender Reveal!

This New Year's Eve was definitely the best one I've ever had! We got to found out the gender of our little baby! I've had the appointment for a couple of weeks and have been worried the 15.5 weeks wouldn't be far enough to get anything conclusive, but luckily I was wrong. For the past couple of days I've been super nervous for some reason, and yesterday I couldn't think of anything else! I was at work until it was time to go, and Colby was definitely just as nervous as me, if not more! I'm pretty sure nervous is the right word here...but I have no idea why. We already knew it was definitely a human in there, and we didn't care about the gender either way. But we still were, as well as crazy excited.

All growing up I wanted a boy first since I didn't have any brothers, but then in the past few years I've thought more about what it'd be like to have a girl first and realized I probably couldn't lose either way. But since Colby and I said "we wanted a boy" ever since we got married, we definitely thought we'd be having a girl first. That's just how those things work, right? So ever since we found out I was pregnant, we've both been so set on a little girl! But for some reason, the past week or two I have been changing my mind, and I went in to the ultrasound with my guess definitely a boy. Colby still guessed girl, even though he said he'd been thinking about changing too, but just wanted to stick with his original guess.

Well...

IT'S A BOY!!!

It's kind of strange since we've been thinking girl for so long, but we honestly couldn't be more excited!! And I can't tell you how good it feels to say "he" instead of "he or she" or even worse, "it".

I wanted to do something a little New Year's related for our families since that's when we told them, so I just made these little party poppers. We bought both colors of paper for confetti beforehand so we'd be prepared...anyone need some pink paper? 

We went to Colby's parent's house in Springville first, and after we ate some fantastic steak and shrimp, we brought out a pink and a blue popper for his parents. It was awesome because no one had any idea we already found out!

I obviously shouldn't have doubled up on the tissue paper...it worked eventually. 

Then a little after 10 we left and headed to Orem to my parent's house. We got there and played a few games, and we didn't pull out the poppers until we were getting ready to count down to midnight. They had no idea we knew either, and they didn't even understand the pink or blue popper thing at first. I dumped them out for people to choose the one they wanted, and they caught on soon enough. I loved that no one had any idea we were finding out this soon! We have been telling our families we had to wait a few more weeks. 

Here's everyone a few seconds before midnight...Colby and I both had blue one since those were the only ones left! Girl was a little more popular. My sister Amanda already has an adorable son...so that's probably why choosing girl was a little more popular.

It was such a fun night and the best way to welcome the new year! Here's a couple of the little man:

PS..the ultrasound experience was so amazing! I absolutely loved seeing him move around in there, suck his thumb, and see his heart beating. It's pretty surreal that little guy is growing inside me! I guess that's how it works or something. Anyways, we are absolutely stoked! Now what I need is a bump to show for it! I definitely get a bigger food baby now after I eat. Does that count?

Happy 2014!!! It's going to be the best yet!