The Richardsons: The Big REVEAL

Last week we found out what we are having. I don't think I have stopped smiling for 7 days. I am so excited. I wasn't supposed to go to the doctor until November 22, but I had some cramping at night and was a little nervous, so I went it at 17 weeks.

The ultrasound tech first got both babies in one shot and I could see two strong pumping hearts and a lot of movement, so I was instantly relieved. I get worked up about stuff, and at that point I just wanted to make sure they were both doing OK. Then she went for the gender scan!!

"Baby A is a BOY" was her first comment. I was so excited I think I stopped breathing. Then she took a while on the second, and said "I just want to be sure about this one" and a couple minutes later "Baby B is a GIRL." UNBELIEVABLE!! God is SOOO good. Mikey wasn't with me for this appointment since it was a last minute thing, so I had to wait for him to get home that night to tell him. That was really fun...I went and bought a blue swaddle and a pink swaddle and wrapped up a couple of teddy bears to show him when he walked in. His reaction was priceless. He's going to be the best daddy ever!!

The next night (Thursday night) we had our family come over to share our news. We told them to dress according to their gender prediction. If they thought it was 2 girls, they were to wear pink. If they thought 2 boys, they wore blue. If they thought one boy and one girl, they wore yellow. Here are the outfits:

Pink Team - guessed 2 girls

Yellow Team - guessed 1 boy, 1 girl

Yellow Team late arrival

Blue team (you will notice her in all 3 pics...cheater!!) :)

We tried to get a little payback on both of our moms for having a hard time at keeping our secrets during the first trimester, so we didn't reveal the news until the end of the night. We made them BEG!! :) I baked a cake for each baby and covered it in icing. It worked pretty good, but if you looked closely, you could figure out that one cake was pink and one was blue, so we hid the cakes until after dinner. Uncle Taylor thankfully took a video that we posted to YouTube...and Ron took one too, but we haven't downloaded his version yet.

Here's Taylor's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmn4DyT_XZ8 (sorry for the dim lights...we had to turn the light off so nobody could see the colors of the cake before it was cut).