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Girls' Birthday and Gender Reveal

The joy of having two birthdays around Christmas is a busy few weeks!  We are normally in GA over their birthdays and decided to have their party there again this year.  We kept it pretty simple with a Barbie/Minnie Mouse theme.  Our plan was to take Addison, Mya and Lilly to lunch at Chick-fil-a, games at Chuck e Cheese then back to Chad's parents' house for dessert.  Unfortunately on the way to Chuck e Cheese Mya got car sick!  We had no change of clothes so we had to turn around and head back to get her cleaned up.  

On a side note, we had heard about a place in Atlanta called Stork Vision that only does 3D/4D Ultrasounds and will do early standard ultra sounds to determine gender.  It came highly recommended and at the last minute we got an appointment 2 days before the girls' party.  We wanted to wait and find out the gender with our families, we did not find out during the ultrasound.  

"Hello!"

She sealed an envelope for us with the picture and sealed another envelope for us to give to the bakery.  We took the envelope to a local bakery and they made the inside pink or blue for us.  I think it turned out super cute!



Since we were already getting our families together for the party, we decided to cut the cake after the girls opened presents.  


Time for presents! Thankfully Mya was feeling better!




After presents everyone was getting anxious to know...


You can probably tell from my reaction we were a little let down it wasn't blue.  Not disappointed in our daughter for sure...just a little sad that this is probably our last baby and a boy would have been fun.  We are very thankful for a healthy baby and the Lord knows just how Miss Lucy will fit into our family!

Then we sang Happy Birthday to two happy big sisters!

Addison didn't want a cake, she wanted ice cream instead.






ALL Pink!


Chad enjoying some cake...  (No, he did NOT all that!)

The next week Brooke and I took the girls to Chuck e Cheese since our first attempt didn't work out. 





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