Baby K5 Gender Reveal

This time around we were excited to discover baby gender before the BIRTHday -- just seemed more practical since we are packing for the first few years of this little one's life!

And we wanted to share the news through a fun Baby K5 Gender Reveal for our families.  Our July 4th trip to SC proved to be the perfect timing...

Gender Reveal Part 1: The Kubaczs

Dean's older brother Darol and his wife Cheryl were also in SC (celebrating 2 years of marriage...Woo Hoo!!), so we all gathered at their lake house on Lake Keowee for July 4th.

G taking a swim

For this particular portion of our gender reveal, Dianna made Cake Ball Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies.  And taking Sugar Derby's advice (and recipe for both cake balls and CC cookies), used the appropriate (either PINK or BLUE) food coloring added to an ordinary white cake mix, thus -- Gender Reveal Cookies!!  Can you say YUMMY ?!?!

Everyone gave a vote (which all present voted BOY) and then chomped a cookie...

Yep, BLUE for BOY!!

Here are a few pictures from the process...(Sugar Derby provides more step-by-step photos in the above links for anyone thinking about trying this)

Blue Cake Balls
Fully cooked blue cake crumbled, then mixed with 1/2 can cream cheese frosting and rolled into balls.

Chocolate coated blue cake ball (which was frozen overnight)

Covering cake ball with cookie dough

Cake ball covered cookie ball ready for baking

This shot lets you appreciate the cookie ball "bump" -- it's the cookie's baby bump : )

YES, they are as delicious as this photo suggests!!

Dean "feigning" his surprise at the Kubacz reveal

Gender Reveal Part 2: The Plylers & LeGrands

The next party was for Dianna's family and extended family who were gathering at her parent's new lake house on Lake Murray (about 2.5 hours from Lake Keowee) on July 5th.

This time around we were expecting a few more people, so Dianna solicited her mom's help in making a gender reveal cake.  Again, the idea was not totally original but adapted from an internet image search leading to Betty Crocker.

Dianna's mom baked the cake and had it prepped, so all Dianna needed to do was pour in the appropriate color candy, add the final cake layer, and complete the icing...

Gender Reveal Cake with some remaining Gender Reveal Cookies

Again, we had everyone cast their vote -- this time by wearing either a pink or a blue ribbon -- before cutting the cake...

Nana, Papa & G cutting the cake.  Will it be pink or blue???

 

This time Gracie participated -- we decided NOT to let her observe our cookie reveal the previous night because we wanted part 2 to be an unspoiled surprise.

Nibbling at the cake innards...mmmmmmm!

And sampling a cookie, too!
"My baby sister is a BOY!!"

As you can probably tell, we are THRILLED to welcome a little boy into our family!!  Praying for continued health this pregnancy (we are beyond halfway) and a safe delivery in November.

Oh BOY,
DD&G