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Gender Reveal Party

January 4, 2013 By Erica Deuel 9 Comments

While we had everyone home for Christmas, my mom threw a gender reveal family dinner for my sister, Annie, and her husband, John. They have a baby coming in May!  We were all so excited to find out if it was a boy or girl! So far, I’m an Aunt of adorable little nieces.  That little fact helped sway my guess as to what the gender might be!  I want a nephew!  Keep reading to find out what she is having, and I have something special for you at the end!

We arrived and all placed our votes on the baby’s gender.  We wore blue or pink necklaces and had to guess the gender on cards signed with our name.  My family is insanely competitive and we weren’t about to let voters try to swap sides last second.

sisters

proud grandparents

I love the sister shot and the proud grandparents shots that I happened to get on my little camera, but I was very thankful when our photographer arrived.  You know it is so amazing to have a professional photographer in the family.  If you missed my introduction of Christina as a Spoonful of Imagination sponsor you can see it here or click over to her site (Someplace Wild) and see some more of her amazing work.  Thanks for the lil plug allowance.

Now for some of her gorgeous pictures of the night!

gender reveal party activity

gender reveal party game

painting

the happy parents

gorgeous girls

toddlerpainting

washing hands

those nails

blocks

If you have not seen my gorgeous sister-in-laws, here they are with my beautiful sister, Joni.  Christina (Someplace Wild) is in the middle.  Which makes me wonder, who took this picture??  It must have been her partner in crime, my brother Tony.

sisters

happy couple

Aren’t they a beautiful couple!?  I can’t imagine how cute their kid is going to be.  It is still weird to see my sis with a baby bump as she has always been fit and thin!  She is so gorgeous and can pull off preggers pretty well if you ask me.

gener reveal party invite

gener reveal party decor

gender reveal cake

gender reveal moment

If you follow me on instagram or twitter, you might already know what the cake revealed.  Annie and John are having a baby boy!!  I get my nephew, and I know they are thrilled to be having a little boy!

soon to be parents

winners

losers

It was such a fun night hanging out with the family (which is a party alone), painting stacking blocks for the future baby, and of course eating a blue cake!

I never was able to wait longer than the doctor’s office to find out the sex of our kids.  That wait alone was so hard!  Have you ever had a gender reveal party or wanted one?  What is your take on them??

Now I have something for you!  My mom did all the amazing decorations for this party, but I did help her out with the invite, party blocks/sign, and the voter cards.  I have all of those for you today for free!!  If you want to help throw a gender reveal party like this one, you simply have to download and print these files, or please pass them along to a friend!

To download, simply click on the thumbnails below and follow your computer’s instructions to save the Word Doc files. Once saved, open them in Word, add your personalization, print, and enjoy!

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Gender Vote Card
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Painting Blocks Sign
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Gender Reveal Invite

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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DIY Transformer Necklace and Game

November 28, 2012 By Erica Deuel 12 Comments

On Saturday, my sweet Jeremiah turned four years old.  That morning I posted a picture collage which listed things he likes.  If you still want to know even more about my sweet boy, read his BIO on our “Our Family” tab at the top.  I don’t think it came as a surprise to you to see Transformers at the top of the list.  Transformers have been the “thing” around here since the end of the summer, which led Matt to making them their transformers school desk.

As his birthday approached, J kept talking about how he wanted to have a Transformers party.  The poor guy has a birthday that always falls right around Thanksgiving, if not ON Thanksgiving, so we opted to keep it small and just invite our families over for this shin dig.  Which you know my family alone is a party waiting to happen.

We took last week off school, yet with three kids in the house, we are always learning.  They assisted me in making this DIY Transformers necklace that I am going to share with you today.

We first picked out a bunch of bottle caps (and practiced counting them as we made sure we had enough for each of our party guests to have one).  The boys were sure to point out which bottle caps there were more of, so we must like that beer more and which bottle caps there were few of, so we must not like that one.  Aren’t they smart?

Next, we chose a pretty color of spray paint from our vast collection.  J liked blue the best, so we went with it for his birthday.  I spray painted the bottle caps on the backside to cover up the logos.

Waiting for these guys to dry was hard for the boys, so I let them hammer flat the “extra” bottle caps.  We will be using these on another project soon.

Those last three pictures were a rabbit trail, but all of you with active young boys like me would appreciate this news.  That activity kept them busy for an hour!  They loved it!  Boys with hammers and destroying stuff.  It was a perfect activity.  Ok, now back to the necklaces.  🙂

Once they were dry, my amazing husband helped us by using a nail and hammering a hole into each of the tops of the bottle caps.

I then printed really small pictures of Autobots off the computer.  The boys spent a long time with me looking at images and telling me which ones were good and which were not.  We had to talk about “pixels” and other new terms with this part of the project.  It was really fun to have them involved and excited.

It took some perfecting and printing of different sizes to find the size that could be cut close enough into a circle with seeing the image as big as it could be.

Once all our bottle caps had an images, we threaded them with a cord or string.  We used whatever we had.  Once there was a string (that would allow the Transformer “charm” to go around our necks) we glued the images on top.  By doing the thread and gluing of the image in this order, we got a bigger image and covered up the hole, so our “charm” would not move around on the string.  It made it a more permanent piece, which is what I wanted.

I then painted the images with a thick coat of mod podge to make them shiny.  Once they were dry, they were all done!

We laid them out, and the boys loved giving all our guests one as they arrived for J’s party.

They were SO cheap to make.  If you are not into collecting your own bottle caps, you can order brand new ones online. Just Google “Bottle Caps” and you should find plenty of options for less than $5!  I hope you will give these a try for your Transformer fan!  You could also branch out and turn these into fun charms for a number of occasions. Replace the Transformer images with your favorite characters, names, or symbols. You could use your guest’s names and hang them on seats for assigned seating or a drape them around a wine glass stem to keep track of glasses. As always, the possibilities are endless!

One other thing you might enjoy for a Transformer themed party is a quick game!

My son, Caleb, cut out a bunch of Decepticon (the bad guys) logos for me.

We taped them up all over our little house.  They were on walls, lights, beds, and even people.  Thank you Sam for being an incredible sport with your Decepticon label!  I then gave out all our Nerf guns and told them to run through the house and shoot all the Decepticons.  The boys, and a few other party members, had a blast!  It was so fun!

See everyone wearing their necklaces?!  They were all such great sports in honoring my little boy.  He felt so loved and had the best day!  I can’t believe he’s four!!  I hope you enjoyed these Transformer fun DIY party ideas.  I’d love to know if you give them a try!  Do you have a Transformer lover in your family too??

Check back tomorrow for more pictures from this party and from Thanksgiving!

Linked up at:  Uncommon Designs, DIY Showoff, Setting for Four, Red Head Can Decorate, Song Bird Blog, Miss Information

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