My Brother-in-laws wife(I wish there was an easier name for this relation!) and I worked all of last weekend to put together our gender reveal box.
When I say all weekend I mean, ALL of Sat. and most of Sunday.
My husband and I waited almost 5 months to see our little baby and two days after that to find out the gender. I had planned to do a gender reveal since I found out I was pregnant. My husband hated the idea of waiting a minute longer than he had too, so it took a lot of convincing to get him on board, and he still wasn’t happy about it.
I had met a lady in a class in the spring semester who did photography part time, and I contacted her two weeks before this reveal and we set up our date.
I rained, POURED at the exact moment we wanted to photograph our reveal.
So my husband, his brother, his brother’s wife and son, as well as my mother-in-law and her boyfriend, my husband’s little brother, and a surprise visitor (my mom, who drove 3 1/2 hours to come to the reveal with plans on driving back right after) and myself pulled together any other option we could think of. We ended up settling on my mother-in-laws house, not ideal but it worked.
The meeting time was 6pm, we had an hour set up with the photographer to take ALL kinds of pictures.
At 645 our photographer text my husband she had been in a fender bender and had to wait for something(maybe police?) and then she had to pick up her kids at 7.
We all kind of stood around for a minute before all the attention turned to me.
“What do you want to do?” “Do you want to wait, do it another day?” “Just do it?”
It hadn’t been the best day for me as it was, and disappointment overtook me.
I disappeared to the nearest bathroom to cry it out for a minute. All the work, all the planning, all the time and effort not only I had put in but almost every single person in the room. What should I do?
I decided it couldn’t wait, my mom had to leave, the helium would only last 8-10 hours and had been paid for, my husband certainly wouldn’t wait, and the whole point of the pictures was to capture our emotion of first finding out.
I probably didn’t handle it like I should have, but I said, “Let’s do it, forget the pictures, it has to be done.”
I wasn’t even excited anymore.
My mom and brother-in-law’s wife pulled out their digital cameras.
Thank goodness my husband’s reaction was great otherwise I am not sure I could have managed a smile.
So it’s a little girl.
Miss Madilyn Juliet.
We took some funny pictures:
And we took some cute ones:
That’s our little nephew, (he didn’t know I was pregnant until the day before and he told his mom “But, she’s not even fat!” Love that kid!)
That’s my momma. 🙂
It ended up being a good great night spent with family.
Today the photographer messaged me on Facebook and offered a free session of anything I want.
Should I do it? I was thinking no on principal alone, my husband says, free is free.
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