Baby Snider Gender Reveal!

Since all of our family is mostly out of state and it's hard to do something in person, Tim & I decided to do something a little different to reveal Baby Snider's gender to our family.  I found a tutorial on Pinterest for scratch off cards that I followed to make cards.  I did the print itself in Photoshop.  If you want some basic lessons on how to create a chevron pattern in Pinterest, I followed this one - How to make a chevron pattern in Photoshop.  It took me a little bit of trial and error, but I ended up with a design I really liked!

        

For the scratch off part, I think I had a bit of pregnancy brain.  I originally bought white adhesive paper which duh, doesn't work because it needs to be clear to see through what you've typed underneath once you scratch off the dishsoap/paint combo.  You want clear contact paper!  I also didn't have a circle cutter, so I just meticulously traced circles on the back side and cut with a pair of good old fashioned scissors which wasn't TOO bad since we weren't making that many.

We had everything all set up the night before (except for printing out the cards since we didn't know what to place under each circle) - but envelopes were addressed, card was ready to be printed.  We ended up doing 1/2 the envelopes in pink and 1/2 in blue, which on second thought probably wasn't a good idea because a lot of our family thought that was the reveal!  Once we had our appointment, my mom (who came in town just for the occasion and was sworn to secrecy), Tim & I rushed home, did a quick assembly line and dropped them in the mail that afternoon.  Sadly, because our appointment was on a Thursday, most everyone didn't end up getting their cards until Monday.  We were dying over the weekend!  My grandmother and aunt were together and tried to trick us into telling several different creative ways (my favorite being they called and said they had gotten the card when they hadn't!)

Once everyone finally did get their cards, we were able to be on the phone or on FaceTime with a lot of people when they did the scratch off which was neat and we were so excited to reveal..........

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We're having a BOY!!!

The full print

We're both over the moon excited - Tim said he's happy it will be the first time he's ever lived in a house with more boys than girls and I'm really comfortable with boys since I grew up with brothers.  Plus, I know there's a reason they call them "momma's boys"  :)  It was an incredible moment to finally be able to picture us having a SON!  We were extremely grateful that everything looked good on the ultrasound (he was measuring a little bit ahead....that's our boy, already advanced!  :))  We've now been more in baby mode, although still no word on a name.  It's a little overwhelming and seems like such a big decision!  We love him already!