Gender Reveal Party with Results

Today was our gender reveal party.

I made lots of fun stuff for the party and we had a great turnout.
The best turnout I have ever had.

Here was what we did for food and fun!

We had a table set up by the door with all the games

We had tickets (not in the pic above) for gender voting. A ticket was drawn from the winning gender jar for a trophy. We were going to do gift cards, but I forgot them when I was at the store.

We had a Wives Tales Predictions poster to show what all the old wives tales were saying to help with voting.

We also had badges (close up pic below) to wear ties or tutus to support their team.

Next, there was 2 small baby bottles with sixlets inside for guessing the number of candy inside. They placed their vote in the jar behind that one.

Last on the table was the gender tree to put their mark for their vote and a sharpie with their name. A way for them to "leaf" their print.

Hand santizer was there in case they needed help getting the ink off their hands

Close up of the badges

Made with craft foam and shirt pins from Michaels (in the jewelry section)

 Close up of the Old Wive's Tales Predictions poster with results circled.

 Close up of the finished gender tree.

We had in person votes and virtual votes since we have lots of family and friends out of state who could not be there for the party, but still wanted to be included.

We decorated the archway between the living room and kitchen with streamers and balloons.

In the kitchen, we put together all the food (pictured above).

We ordered a medium assorted sandwich tray from Kroger. The sandwiches were very tasty.

We picked up a fruit tray, veggie tray, and a cheese and cracker tray from Walmart.

We also grabbed 3 types of chips and 2 types of dip to add to the table.

The rest of the table was all the treats and favors that we made or bought.

I made cupcakes, rice crispy treats with candy coating, and cookies.

The favors included decorated (by me) Hershey bars, pink and blue rock candy, pink and blue swirl lollipops, pink and blue peeps, pink and blue marshmallows, and favor bags with mints inside.

 Here is a close up picture of the cookies.

The flavors were pink lemonade and blue raspberry.

 Here is a close up progress pic of the Hershey bars.

They were covered in sharpie to decorate.

 Here is a close up of the cupcakes before I put them on the platter for the party.

They were yellow cake with pink and blue frosting with pink and blue sprinkles.

 This is a close up of the Rice Krispie treats.

It was one serving/recipe split between 2 pie pans. 

Then, I added pink and blue candy coating and icing.

 The drinks were Pink Lemonade and Blue Raspberry Hawaiian Punch

Here was the cake before the big reveal.

We ordered it from Oh La La! bakery in Katy.

They have 3 locations and their cakes are awesome.

You can pick the cake flavor, outside icing, and inside icing.

Ours was decorated inside to show gender.

We had the ultrasound tech put our gender card inside a sealed envelope and I dropped it immediately off to the bakery for them to know what color to dye the icing inside.

The cake was for 10 servings, but we got lots more than that.

The cake was huge (and heavy)! 

Made it worth the money, but we didn't need anywhere near that much cake.

And, here was the results!

Boy #3 for our family.

I lost the bet, but I will have lots of strong boys to protect Mommy when they get older.