It's A......

Sadly for my husband, I love planning a party!  The weekend we found out the gender of Baby Gooding #2 was super busy.....but, I couldn't pass up a chance to celebrate this precious new life.  So, with some of our closest friends and some family we had a pink and blue gender reveal party. In my opinion, everything turned out super cute.      

• Cheese ball, Corn dip, Veggies, Chicken nuggets and spinach dip completed the menu
• The sunlight coming in through the windows made it hard to take a good picture.
• Candy covered marshmallows
• Labels from WH Hostess
• Candy covered rice krispie treats, candy popcorn and yummy vanilla cake 
• He or She?
• Pink or Blue, We Love YOU!
• I loved this cake made by my mom's friend, Arvella (if you live in West Texas you must use her!)
• Anna Grace or Weston Jack (Anna is my paternal grandmother and Grace is Gordon's paternal grandmother; wGj are also William's initials, Jack is Gordon's maternal grandfather)

With a pop of a balloon the verdict was in.....it's a GIRL!!!

William tends to take after me.  He loves a party!  He was so excited about his friends coming over.  He only took a 45 minute nap and when he woke up he sat straight up in bed and said, "It's my party? My friends coming!"  He was SO excited!!!

William and Gordon voted BLUE.  I honestly didn't care either way.  A little brother for William would have been so fun.....but, I am glad to have one of each!  My pregnancies aren't the easiest so I'm pretty sure this will be it for us.  :)  Gordon was pretty shocked for the first few hours.  He truly thought we'd only have boys.  To be honest, he had convinced me of that too.  I had felt sicker this pregnancy, the Chinese gender calender said we'd have a girl and the baby's heart rate had always been higher than William's had been.  The pink confetti confirmed that it was a girl!  I'm still not sure I'll believe it until I see it for myself.  It all seems too perfect.  :)  It's hard to believe we'll have baby dolls and bows in our house now!!!!

Soon to be family of four!  2 girls ~ 2 boys
{Confetti Balloons from Etsy Flair Exchange}

A month later it's finally sinking in.  We are all so excited!  Anna Grace will be the first granddaughter on my side of the family and she will be exactly one year younger than her cousin, Katherine, on Gordon's side.  We feel extremely blessed and continue to pray that she stays in her mama for another couple of months (at least!).  I'm so glad we will get to honor our grandmothers by naming her Anna Grace.  I know my sweet Grandma Anna is smiling down on us from heaven.  I can only pray that our little Anna is as sweet, patient and kind as she was.  My heart holds such precious memories of her.  I can't wait to share them all with Anna Grace.

A year later

This time last year our house was filled with our family and friends for our gender reveal party!  I was almost 17 weeks pregnant and we were so excited to find out we were having a baby boy.  I had started feeling the little guy wiggle around in there before Christmas and was loving how real it was all becoming.  The clothes shopping and nursery decorating started the very next day!  ....now a year later we are a happy family of three.  We had a fabulous day laying around the house.  G cooked breakfast and then we all headed to the couch in our PJs to watch a movie and take a nap.  Gordon and I watched Snowman and the Huntsman while W took his morning nap.  This afternoon we cleaned out William's closet (tear), finally unpacked all our bags, made W some food for this week and I made Gordon's favorite...potato soup!   William tried peas tonight and wasn't too crazy about them (honestly who is?).  We'll give it a try again tomorrow night.  Now we're all back on the couch having a good night bottle and then this mom and dad are watching The Next Iron Chef.  These are some of my favorite days.  :) 
Last year I was wondering what kinda baby boy we'd get....I honestly couldn't have dreamed of a more perfect one.  Blue eyed and happy happy happy!  I love him to the moon and back. 

THEN

NOW

What's it gonna BEE??

If you know me you know I love getting all my friends together!!  The theme of my get togethers has changed quite a bit over the years.  I went from hosting Bachelorette watch parties at my apartment in Midtown (which included lots of wine) to babyshowers and gender reveal parties!  So, at 17 weeks preggo (December 30th) we found out if we were having a he or a she!!  We got to celebrate with some of our closest friends and my parents who had flown into Houston that day.

And it's gonna bee a....

BOY!!!  There were a ton of pictures of us cutting the cake but this one makes me LOL.  Gordon is obviously thrilled and apparently so is Parker.  We would have been happy with a boy or a girl but Gordon did admit that he's glad to put off ballet for a few more years.  Haha.  After the party was over my mom and I were talking about all the babysitting I did in highschool and college.  I realized that 90% of the kids I watched were boys!  I babysat for 3 neighbors on a cul-de-sac that were ALL boys.  One family had 4, another 3 and the last 2.  Needless to say, Ma Mar Ave is full of many fun memories!   So, it seems right that our first baby is a boy.  We can hardly wait to meet our little guy!!

Ashley, Rachel, Stacy, Lindsey, Alison, Tina and Kendall with Piper