When Senior Airman Nicholson Pennant was deployed on a short-notice, six-month tour of the Middle East during his wife’s second pregnancy, he was resigned to missing out on all the special family moments. So after his wife Taylor discovered the gender of their baby during a routine ultrasound, she set about putting together a surprise gender reveal for him overseas. Enlisting the help of his unit, she secretly sent a care package containing everything needed to stage a party - decorations, confetti, and games so Nicholson could discover the gender despite being thousands of miles from home Inside a small soccer ball was powder in the color of the baby’s gender – blue or pink.