It's a ....!

Nathan and I had decided early on that we were going to find out the gender of our baby. Our 20 week sonogram was scheduled for December 4th and we thought that we would use an idea from our mentor couple. They had told us about asking the sonogram technician to write down the gender on a card and then open it for Christmas.

We took a purple elephant card and handed it over to the tech and waited patiently for 21 days. The morning of Christmas, we woke up in bed and being the girl that I am, I begged to open it right away! Nathan opened the envelope and I opened the card in front of his eyes only. His expression gave it right away.

Nathan was convinced that we were having a girl, and he slowly and surely convinced me too. We had given in to the old wives tales and we both thought that we would welcome a baby girl in April.

Well in fact, his expression of shock at the card told me that we are in fact having a BOY!

We waited until 4PM EST/3PM CST to tell the rest of our family the great news. Here is a video of us sharing the joy of our future son, their future grandson, great-grandson and nephew.