Gender Reveal!!

As many of you know and most of you attended our Gender Reveal Party was this past weekend!!

Although it was a TON of work it was a blast!! I recommend a gender reveal party to anyone expecting!! It is the best of both worlds...you are genuinely surprised (I know we were for sure) however you also can plan room, clothes, accessories etc! Plus you get to share this moment with your closest family and friends!! THANK YOU to everyone who attended!!

 

Here are a few photos from the weekend!!

 

Voting Station

     

Centerpieces I handcrafted with photos of Tyler and I on each side of a dowel rod in a jar of alternating blue and pink sand!!

 

The cake created by Hyvee....What will baby ward be?

 

After all the votes had been cast!

Checking out the voting board....as well as note the paint chip banner that I handcrafted to say BOY or GIRL?

Before we cut the cake!

Baby Ward is a GIRL!! The cake is PINK?!?

To say we were shocked was an understatement!! For some reason we both just thought or more assumed the baby would for sure be a boy! I have always thought I would never have a girl....don't really know why but I did. Well when I cut through the cake and we couldn't quite see the color and pulled it out to cut again...I heard my Aunt say it's pink....and I was like no way. As we pulled out the chunk Tyler announces to the crowd "Yep it's PINK." I was literally SPEECHLESS! As you all know I never shut up so to be speechless is rare. However Tyler was by far the most taken aback....he was caught SO off guard! Here I am reminding him that earlier in the week I told him we were gonna wear blue and the cake would be pink!! Well there we were in all blue with a pink cake!

 

It has sunk in and we are both so excited to meet our precious baby GIRL!! I am SO excited to have a daughter. I can not wait to dress her up and adorn her in so many bows!! YAY!! It was such a fun surprise and so fun to have all of our relatives and close friends there to share in it!!

 

My little Brother Marshall handcrafted this AWESOME baby carriage watermelon carving!! It was a wonderful centerpiece to the food table!!

 

So here it is!! The board is officially PINK!! Only 19 more weeks to go....I am officially in shopping, creating, crafting, decorating, prepping....etc mode!! I don't even know what to do first!!

Happy Wednesday!

Throwback Thursday...and looking forward :)

 

Yesterday July 24th was Tyler and I's 3rd Wedding Anniversary!!

 

It doesn't seem like 3 years have already passed :)

 

 

Then what was also weird was Tyler found this golf score sheet from one of our dates when we were still just boyfriend/girlfriend....this slip of paper lost in his car is probably 6 years old LOL!!

 

 

 

Taking a look back is always fun!! However this week I am more concerned with looking forward!!

To the weekend and our baby gender reveal party!!

 

To say we are excited to know if Baby W is a he or she is an understatement!!

 

We had our sonogram on Tuesday night and we were very good and didn't peek at the sex so Sunday's cake color is a total surprise to us!!

 

 This is the envelope that we left with the folks at Hyvee to make our reveal cake!

  

 

 

What will it be he or she....

 

I leave you all with a photo of our first baby miss Gypsy

She loves the new patio blocks and can actually go outside now that our fence is up!!

 

 

Happy Thursday!

 



Throwback Thursday!!

 

With our gender reveal party a little over a week away!! I have been working away on décor for the party which includes several baby photos of Tyler and I!!

 

So here is a super Throwback Thursday....one of the first pictures of each of us!! 

5 days until we get to see Baby Ward on the Sonogram!! 

AND 10 till we know if Baby Ward is BOY or GIRL!!  

Getting SO excited :)

 

 

Have a wonderful Friday!

 

 

 

 



July 13th....equals 8 YEARS!!

Tyler and I have been dating for 8....yes count them 8 years today July 13th!!

 

I can't believe it!! It seems like 2005 WAS just yesterday!!

 

It has been a CRAZY 8 years!! So I thought what better than a little photo walk down memory lane!! Our 8 years together (Almost 3 years of Marriage)!!

 

Year 2005

 

 

Don't we look SO young!! I didn't have facebook back then...so I am a little light on photos from 2005 :)

 

Year 1 2006

 

 

Year 2 2007

 

 

Year 3 2008

 

We got engaged on December 13th 2008

 

Year 4 2009

 

 

 

Year 5 2010

 

Tyler and I were married on July 24th, 2010 at St. Isidore's Catholic Church!

 

 

We went on our first cruise for our Honeymoon and fell in LOVE with cruising :)

 

Year 6 2011

 

 

Cruise #2!! Spring break 2011....can't wait till the day we can go again!!

 

 

Year 7 2012

 

 

Year 8 2013

 

 

 

Now here we are 8 YEARS later and expecting our 1st child!! 2013 is going to be a BIG year for us!!

 

I love you Tyler and look forward to many more wonderful years with you!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ALOT has been happening lately!!

My oh my!! We have had ALOT going on in the last two weeks :)

 

Here is a recap of what I have been up to!

 

First off we got our back yard fence FINISHED!! I can hear angels singing when I say that!!

 

Here are a few photos from the project...

Mark helped Tyler get things started and my parents helped ALL day Sunday to get the fence done!!

 

Thank you for all the help!!

 

 

That same weekend Tyler and I met our new niece Maggie Elizabeth!!

She also happens to be our Goddaughter :)

 

I loved holding her and remembering how tiny newborn's can be!!

Tyler however decided he would wait to hold our own baby haha....he is a silly guy!

 

 

Here is Maggie modeling one of my custom made bows!! This is the same photo they took of her big sister Allie!

 

 

Next up was 4th of JULY!! One of the biggest times of year in Wamego KS!! There is so much fun and nostalgia each and every year!! Here are few photos from the annual parade and the AMAZING firework show!!

Waiting for the parade to start!! Our last parade as a couple next year we will be a family of 3! YAY!

 

All the people....Wamego grew by TONS of people on the 4th!

Powercat truck it was supper cool!

A car my Mom detailed for the parade carrying Ms. Pottawatomie...I told my Mom that's what it was gonna be used for ....on just a guess and I was right!!

 

These pictures do not do the show any justice!! It was the best one yet!!

 

It has been a wonderful week spent with family!!

 

We spent this weekend working in our yard...yes some more...to get ready for our gender reveal party!! Tyler and I will be finding out the sex of our little baby at a party Sunday July 28th by cutting into a cake that will reveal the color pink or blue!! We are pushing to get our yard and shop all ready for the party!

 

For now here is picture of the invite!! I had a lady on etsy create it and printed through vista print! LOVE how they turned out!!

 

 

So I leave you all with my photo from pregnancy week #18!! Only 22 to go!! :) Almost halfway there!!