Pink or Blue?

Earlier this summer, Jei had gotten a cake order from a coworker of mine whose wife was pregnant. They requested a pretty simple gender-neutral cake... so the outside was pretty basic and was no big deal (an Angel's baseball cake of all things), but the inside was what made it so special. The cake was for a big family party they were hosting, in which the guests were told that the gender of the expected newborn would be revealed at some point during the festivities. Well, little did the guests know that the gender of the baby would be revealed through the cake that they would soon be eating! I myself had never heard of such a cool & creative idea before, but apparently it is called a gender-reveal cake... where the colored filling inside reveals the gender of the baby (pink for girl and blue for boy).

According to my coworker, Jei's cake was beautiful, delicious, and it worked brilliantly at the party! Fast forward a couple of months... and when it finally came time for the technician to reveal our new baby's gender via Jei's first (and only?) ultrasound, we were blessed and so fortunate to have Michele and the kids still in town! Jei & I immediately thought about the gender-reveal cake she had made for my coworker, and thought what better way to tell the family what the gender is of our new baby than with cake!

Michele and the kids had just spent a week and a half up in L.A. with the girls when they arrived back at our house to stay for the remainder of their trip... which gave Jei plenty of time to make her very own gender-reveal cake. As you can see, the cake was nothing fancy or elaborate on the outside, but the inside most certainly held a very big secret!

Excited, anxious, and hysterical are three good words I would use to describe how the kids were feeling that night! I'm sure if the adults weren't as strict & cautious as we were, that cake would've been destroyed long before we were ready to cut into it. But they were good and had waited long enough, so we all gathered round the kitchen island for a group photo...

And then secretly started the video camera...

to record the big reveal!

Poor Allen had no idea what was going on... or that his family just learned that he was going to have a baby brother!

The reveal cake was such a great idea and it couldn't have worked out more perfectly! It was such a happy, memorable & special moment that we'll all probably never forget (thanks to the video!).

Of course the reveal wasn't even the best part...

for we got to eat the cake after the big celebration!!!

I can't imagine Allen or his little brother not liking cake!

A few days later, Allen put on his new shirt, grabbed his balloon, got up on the table and sat next to a cake that Sophia & Caty made... and as Momma Soch walked through the front door, this is how she found out she was going to have another grandson!

So a boy it is! Jei & I (along with most of the family) thought for sure it was going to be a girl, but we were pleasantly surprised and glad that Allen is going to have a little brother to play with, beat up, and annoy.

Not the best picture of the little guy... but wanted to put it up just in case there were any doubts about him being a boy! (Hee-hee!)

It was certainly nice (a relief) to get the gender reveal out of the way, and we are so happy and blessed to have another boy running around real soon, but now comes the hard part... coming up with another meaningful name! (Oh, and congrats to the one person who guessed right on the blog poll!)