The couple have two older children, Brayson, 6, and Brelann, 18 months. And originally, the couple wasn’t thinking about doing something so extreme. “We weren’t going to do a gender reveal because we’re busy with work and everything, but our family was so disappointed because we had a Mexican fiesta themed one for Brexlann.” But once they made up their minds to go big or go home, Brad and his friend David Sykes came up with a plan that truly had some lift.
David, an aerial crop duster, would use his crop plane to release either pink or blue dye as he flew in front of Sunray Airport. The couple could invite friends and family to the airport runway, where they could watch the big reveal as a group.
In the video of their big reveal, both Rachel and Brad seem excited that they’re about to learn the gender of their baby. When a friend who was taking footage of the event asked Brad what he guessed the baby would be, Brad answered, “don’t have a clue.”
Mom Rachel was a little bit more willing to venture a guess. “I think girl, but I don’t know,” she said.
“My son wasn’t so excited at the prospect of another sister. He had been praying for a brother I’m sure," Rachel told Fox News.
And Brad added that his grandmother, Margaret Reed, was disappointed too, but only because she wanted more boys to carry on the family name. “Brayson is the only one,” Brad said.
“All of our babies have been born in January too. Everyone jokes that our breeding season is in April and our calving season is January," Rachel joked.
The couple’s friend Greg Wright remarked that though he never understood before why gender reveals have become so elaborate, he admits that watching his friends have their own big reveal changed his mind. “It was a really fun day.”
However, Greg said a big gender reveal would not have been his choice for his own children.“I don’t think I could have handled the suspense.”
