{Gender Reveal} Josh & Sarah

If you've been here before, you'll likely recognize this couple. Sarah contacted me somewhere around the end of her first trimester/end of her second trimester I believe, to do a gender reveal session with her and Josh. Um yeah, so exciting! This also meant that Sarah drove half an hour to deliver the sealed envelope from her doctor indicating what they were having. This is kiddo #4, their third together, and also their last (that's the plan, anyway).

I closed the door, waited for Sarah to drive away and then excitedly opened the envelope to see what news it held. I somehow imagined it would be a piece of paper indicating in huge font, 'boy' or 'girl.' Not so. I had to carefully read through every corner of the paper to see what it said. Bottom corner held the secret. And it was pretty exciting to have that secret to myself (well, and my kiddos).

We discussed several ideas for how we would reveal the baby's gender and settled on helium balloons. I knew of the helium shortage and so I asked around and found a local store that had helium balloons. I went into the store and spoke with the owner the day before and had everything arranged. I went in the next morning...only to be told they ran out overnight (who uses helium overnight????). Seriously panicked. The next store I tried had helium but would only do Mylar balloons; thankfully they had the color I wanted, even though they were stars instead of just round balloons.

Then came the challenge of getting them to pop out of the box I had. Oh man...husband to the rescue and patience from Josh & Sarah as I ended up being late. The balloons didn't quite pop out of the box as I had hoped, but it was a great learning experience and I think their reaction was the best part of it all.

Sarah and Josh - thanks for involving me in this very exciting session and congratulations!

{Josh was "Team Boy" while Sarah was "Team Girl"}




{LOVE their faces}






{High-fiving for finally 'making' a boy - haha}


{I did not intentionally do a collage of kissing pictures, but seriously, these two are so kissy, I think there may end up being another baby - HA!}