The BIG Baby REVEAL!

To find out, or not to find out... that seems to be the going question in pregnancy these days. We decided we wanted to find out the gender of our baby, but still add the element of surprise! So we chose to do a "baby cake reveal". We had our big ultrasound yesterday (Aug 4th), and we went and asked our technician if she could text message a baker the gender of our baby, without telling us... which she did. We then had my dear sister-in-law Kelly's friend, Amy, create a cake that was either blue or pink on the inside! We then waited the entire day, until our baby "reveal party" where we had our family and close friends over to share in the big surprise with us. :) It went out just as planned, without a hitch, and the cake was PERFECT (thanks Amy!).

If you know my husband, you know he "knew" it was going to be a boy from the beginning. Everyone else thought girl... I honestly didn't have a clue. No "mother's intuition" for this girl. just a growing baby :) But my husband's knowledge came about in a unique way, let me share...about 5 years ago Adam was out in La Crosse (where we went to college) spending some time with God praying, and he had this moment where he felt like God was telling him he would some day have a son, his first-born, and he should name him Caleb... which means man of courage, with a "different" spirit from the rest. (I will share more about our choice in name later). So ever since that moment, we knew our first son would be a "Caleb". So cutting through that cake yesterday we were THRILLED to see blue... a unique story of God's faithfulness. We can't explain the excitement we shared. Honestly a day we won't forget, and a story we can share forever. :)

Thanks to all for sharing in our excitement and big day. Our little peanut measured a week behind... so we may be pushing that due date back to the new year! Currently it stands at Dec 29th, but after our next doc appt it could be January 7th. EEEK! Either way, we feel blessed and can not wait to meet our little guy!

below is a link the video of us cutting the cake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fDXnLDKNJI&feature=player_embedded