What a beautiful day we had to celebrate Mother's Day! I felt blessed to start the day by walking Dupree into town and getting a mango iced tea at Caribou. It was so quiet and no one was on the trail except me, Dupree, the birds and the squirrels. It was wonderful! As soon as I got home, I jumped into the hustle of getting the last few things ready for the Mother's Day party we hosted. Ryan finished the last few touch ups on the nursery and got the garage cleaned out. We made sloppy joes and wrapped gifts. We were ready for our company to come over around noon..
My whole family and most of Ryan's family joined us for lunch. After a tasty lunch full of sloppy joes, potato salad, beans, pasta salad, jello salad, pear salad, and fruit salad... enough salads right?!... we opened gifts. It looked like Christmas around here. I felt really, really blessed to be showered with lots of love. Lots of cards of encouraging words and beautiful first time mama gifts. Ryan gave me what can only be described as a pregnant woman's dream- manicure/pedicure gift certificate for the rest of my pregnancy! And then this beautiful figurine.
I have a few of these throughout the house and I absolutely love this one. So thoughtful and I will treasure this as my first Mother's Day gift from Ryan and baby Hannay. Are you dying yet to know if Baby Hannay is a boy or a girl?!!
Okay! Okay! So I did a mini gender reveal and had our family vote on if they thought Baby Hannay would be a boy or a girl. My friend Kristin helped me get voting ballots, stickers, and signs to complete the party!
So after gifts were opened, we had Ryan's mom and my mom cut into a secret cake!
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And they yelled... "It's blue!"
Yes! We're having a BOY!
Ryan and I are over the moon thrilled to be having a baby boy! It feels surreal to say that I will have a son in a few months! We do have a name picked out but I'm going to hold onto that until baby's birthday!
A few more pictures of the day...
The Nelson's all voted GIRL!
Grandma Robyn and Nona Pescada... baby boy will be spoiled like crazy by these two!
Grandpa and Grandma... both voted BOY!
Laura knew it... hope my sister is ready to nanny her nephew!
Dick and Judy were on the right track...
Grandma was pretty happy! She said "I win!"
Of course my brother had to do his own vote... this way he wouldn't be wrong... so typical :)
And Stephanie and her dad were both team GIRL... maybe next time...
All the grandpas... our baby boy is really lucky to have these three!
Jaxon is really excited to finally have another boy in the family! Yay a boy cousin!
"We're Hannays! We only make boys!"
And when it was all said and done and the last of the guests left, Rose tuckered out on the couch. A lot of excitement to celebrate. What a beautiful day celebrating all the moms, moms to be, god moms, aunts, mother in laws, sisters, and women who are the glue in our family! I can't wait for our son to join in family celebrations later this year! He's gonna love it!
Out-numbered by one husband, one fur man puppy, and a baby BOY on the way... and THRILLED!
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