Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice

It's a girl!!! 

We had an ultrasound yesterday and I was debating how we wanted to find out/announce it (because with Pinterest, there are just too many options). Finally I settled on the silly string reveal. Michael's sister Annie was called by the ultrasound tech during our appointment and was told the gender. The images were put on a flash drive and we had to exercise restraint not to look at them. Then, we arranged for our families (those that are in the area) to meet up at Nielson's Grove Park in Orem (where we got engaged). I bought silly string that had the same can but different colored caps in pink and blue and gave them to Annie upon arrival. She uncapped the right ones, handed them out and after counting down, everyone sprayed us with PINK silly string! 

I was so stunned by the strong chemical odor and having silly string in my face that it took me a little while to realize that the stinky light stuff all over me was tinged pink. By then a few people had already commented about it being a girl that I think that was really what tipped me off first (and I'm saying this more for my own sake of remembering). We took some pictures and said hello to family on skype and then a couple posed pictures and said goodbye. As everyone got in their cars, I hugged Michael and started to sob. We had joked enough about my intuition being right and Michael had teased enough about it being a boy and not a girl that I had willed myself to be excited to have a boy and gotten SO prepared to see blue come out of those cans. I was in shock. Michael comforted me as we went to Costco to grab some food before our 2nd Hypnobirthing class. There were no more boy jokes and he was the sweetest and most sincerely excited I'd seen him in a while. I surfed pinterest for the next few days rekindling my love of ruffles and bows and was over the moon once I'd gotten over the shock. Next time, I won't let myself get too excited one way or another.

So dearest KayleeBear, we can't wait to meet you!!!