life with the tsengs

this past sunday, we hosted a gender reveal party for our little one.

I had never actually attended a gender reveal party before – so I had no idea what to plan or how to get started (thank goodness we live in a generation with Pinterest!) It was so much fun to plan and it was such a great time to celebrate our bundle of joy together with our family and friends.

As you can imagine, there was a lot of baby pink and blue.

Because we didn’t want to spend too much money on this party, most of the stuff was simple DIY stuff. The tassle garland was made with help from this DIY video.

Of course we had to have a tally board. And all of the guests wore either blue or pink clothespins signifying what they believed baby tseng to be. It was a pretty close tie!

— I was able to repurpose a lot of my old frames and wood blocks to use as chalkboards. (I love all things chalkboard!) It’s actually really easy (and cheap!) to make your own chalkboards with chalkboard paint!

My favorite part to plan was the food. There are so many cute ideas online! I wanted to incorporate both the girl and boy theme so decided to stick with “What little boys and girls are made of!”

Manly grub for the boy’s side.

Sugar + spice things for the girl’s side.

And then came the big reveal..

Eugene actually did a fist pump at one point. 🙂

We are so excited and thrilled to meet our little boy. It’s been so fun and crazy referring to our baby as “our son”. Even though Eugene said he didn’t have a preference before our grand reveal, I can tell that he was secretly hoping that our first would be a boy. (apparently, this rings true for all guys!)

We didn’t want any of our guests to bring gifts to our party. (That would have been kind of weird!) but we decided to host a diaper raffle. We asked our guests to bring a bag of diapers of any size for any age to enter the raffle. We raffled off gift cards and we were so surprised how many of our guests participated!

Our nursery is a work in progress, but it is now filled with lots of bags of diapers! (even a bag of cute diapers from Japan – thanks Sata’s!)

It was such a joyous day for us – not only because we were able to find out our baby’s gender but because we were surrounded by so many of our friends and family. We were reminded that it really does take a village to raise and love a child and we are so incredibly blessed to have our family and friends to go through this next season with.

Thanks for celebrating with us – whether it be in the flesh or in spirit.
We love you all so much and feel so blessed!

xoxo