bows or boys or both? // twin gender reveal party

with my pregnancy with maxson, we didn't really get to celebrate his announcement with anyone in person and casey wasn't even with me at the doctor when i found out the gender. so for the twins, i wanted to make it special and fun with family and friends involved. we ordered invitations from tinyprints and were obsessed with how they turned out. i saw this invitation on their site and figured it would work just good enough. BUT they had a designer who looked at my invites, saw i was having twins and customized it specially for me at no extra cost, i was beyond wowed with their service! definitely check them out my friends. having these little invites made the occasion just a tad bit more special, which i so loved!

the dessert table.
mustaches and bows a plenty.




the children were so happy when i said the dessert table was now up for grabs, ha.

pre-gender reveal, so nervous and excited!
me at 16 weeks
also like i mentioned, maxson was beyond happy with the amount of cookies he sneaked.

trying to get everyone on for FaceTime.

and here was the long awaited gender reveal!

i really was so nervous but so excited.

top right is finding out there's one boy and, i believe, second row to the bottom on the left is finding out there's a second boy. the picture just to the right of finding out there's a second boy is casey asking me "how did you know" and i at the same time saying "i was right, i knew it!"

i also love seeing  a few of our friends in the background

^^you see our friend katie just over casey's arm? she's the one who made my vision of the balloon popping all come together, she's a gem of a friend and i LOVE that she's in the background of these pictures with such excitement for us, it's seriously so sweet.

here was what our friend set up for us: she put different colors in balloons, and we threw darts at the canvas to pop them, it was so fun and very thrilling

fyi, since it was 2 boys it was blue and green,

2 girls would have been pink and purple,

and 1 of each would have been some combo of a boy color and a girl color

the canvas actually looks so pretty and i'm stoked to put it in the children's room

here's our sweet friend katie. funny story, as she was pinning the balloons to the canvas, one popped ALL OVER her, with a white shirt on, ha. she ran away in a rush and called casey on the phone to tell him we could throw the darts. she did end up covering up with a sweatshirt so she could see all the excitement from far away.

and i loved maxson's paint splattered face.

and thus we see, 2 more mustaches to add

fyi- if you are ever going to do balloon paint-popping for a gender reveal here's some tips katie did. 

1. she put different amounts of water in with each balloon so the consistencies of the running paint would be different on the canvas.

2. she put glitter in some of them

3. she used a funnel to help with the mess of putting the paint in the balloons and then blowing them up

4. there were different sized balloons: think regular sized balloons and water balloon sized balloons.

ps- as i'm writing this post, it's the first time i can see the movement on my stomach of the babies, the boys! so exciting, at just 17 weeks!