Gender Reveal! It's a....

 On Saturday, December 20th, our family and close friends gathered at our house for our Christmas themed gender reveal of Baby Kaune #2! They were instructed to wear green if they thought it was a boy and red if they thought it was a girl. They were also told to bring a gag gift, which was quite fun!

 

I was really excited that my dad, sister and brother were able to make the trip up from Columbia. My sister waits tables at Fatz and my brother waits tables at a sushi bar so they were lucky to able to get a Saturday off this close to the holidays. My dad is recovering well from his stroke. He still does not have a lot of movement on his left side but is able to move around with a cane. They came early so that we could open presents and I cooked a ham and made some crockpot macaroni and cheese for a "Christmas lunch." My sister and brother helped me prepare all the food for the gender reveal.  It's very nice having siblings that work in the restaurant industry! :) I served the leftover macaroni and cheese, used the leftover ham for sliders and we had chili dip, pimento cheese with crackers, ham and pickle rollups, pasta salad and red and green iced sugar cookies.

 

 

After our guests ate, we exchanged gag gifts, which was quite amusing. My mother in law's best friend Linda is visiting from Missouri and she ended up with a dollar tree home drug test which was absolutely hysterical. She knits and does crossword puzzles and that's about the extent of what she does in her free time lol.

 

 

My brother in law Jon ended up with colon cleanser....haha!

 

Dad ended up with a Victoria's Secret Christmas album, woop-woop!

 

 

Ramen noodles for my father in law!

 

 

Love this picture of Kennedy and her bff, Janna. Such sweet girls!

 

 

Kennedy with my bff Ashley and her husband Kevin.

 

After the gag gifts, it was time for the moment everyone was waiting for, the big reveal. My co-worker and friend Kris made this box, which Nick absolutely loved since he is an avid hunter.

 

 

We took pictures of the teams first. Team red was Payton, Jessica, Becky, Ella and my sister Augusta. Jessica, Becky and Augusta were among the few that guessed that Kennedy was a girl and obviously were right. Ashley and my friend Brittney were also on team girl last time but this time joined team boy!

 



 

Team boy was my in laws, Linda, Jakob, my brother Bubba, sister in law Rachael, brother in law Jon, Brittney, Jessica, Joe, Luke, Ashley and Kevin.

 

 

Then, it was time! Kennedy helped me open the box. And....

 

 

Team green wins! It's a boy!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Mark William Kaune will complete our family in May! We are so excited and feel very blessed. Nick actually got really choked up when we found out. There is only one grandson on his side of the family and Tristan will be 16 in February so it was very exciting to hear there would be another Kaune boy carrying on the family name! Plus he is so excited to have a fishing and hunting buddy. My in laws were absolutely ecstatic!

 

 

Kennedy is very excited about having a little brother and has been carrying around the baby boy balloon since the party. She even has it with her when she eats all her meals, so cute!

 

We do have a video of Kennedy opening the box but I am having trouble uploading it to the blog for some reason. Hopefully I can get it figured out and share sometime later in the week!

 

I am so excited to have one of each and praying that the rest of this pregnancy goes by as smoothly as the first 19 weeks has. Thanks for reading everyone and Merry Christmas!