When it came time to find out the sex of their unborn baby, parents-to-be Monique Tello and Steven Statter channeled their love of baseball into a big gender reveal .

The couple wanted to be surprised along with their friends and family, so Tello's sister Marissa was the only person to learn the baby's sex after their ultrasound. Marissa filled a clear plastic Christmas ornament with powdered chalk -- choosing between pink powder for a girl or blue for a boy. She then painted it to look like a baseball.

On a sunny afternoon in November, friends and family gathered at a baseball diamond. Tello pitched the ornament baseball to Statter, who hit it with his bat and released a storm of pink powder.