More Names

I didn't even have to tell you my reasons and you guys have picked up on the presidential concern I have :) Reagan is Jeremy's top name. He is in love with this name :) He has loved it for months now. Now, I like Reagan ... I really do like the name. However, I have a Kennedy and I just don't want both of my girls to have presidential first names. I figure they will get made fun of ... am I over thinking this? Kennedy is named after my uncle Kenny who passed away in 2006 from cancer. So, I can explain her presidential sounding name. I can't do that with a Reagan. It's not a family name.

I will tell you now that most of you have chimed in already. (THANKS SO MUCH!) The top name on my list is Keegan. I'm not sure why but I have fallen in love with it already. However, Jeremy is not 100% sold. He likes it but he's not sold .... So we are still on the hunt for another name or for Jeremy to move over to my side :)

I also really like Lane but I can't think of a middle name to go with it. Joy is what we were thinking of putting with Keegan. My dad's mom is Joyce and so we were thinking of Joy after her. Don't you just love Keegan Joy?

Again, everything at this point is up in the air and it may all change 100 times before we go to the hospital. Maybe another 100 once we are in the hospital. It's driving me insane to not know already. I have letters to paint other stuff to do .. I need a name :) I'm just a little bit of a planner and well, I need a name :)

Here are a few others we have thought of ...

Shae
Shiloh
Ainsley
Tory (Tori)
Sage

Do you have any other names for me?

Baby Names?!?!?!?!?

OK so I need your help. We have been thinking of names for a while now. The only ones that we really could agree on and the ones that came to us easily were BOY names. Since the cake was pink .... I think we might need a girl name :)

So I'll throw out some of the ones we are thinking of ... You can chime in if you want to! :) PLEASE do! :)

Esmeralda
Esperanza
Eudocia
Cinderella
Calliope
Cantara
Lieselotte

OK I kid, I kid! :) Here are some real choices we are thinking about ... I will not tell you our favorites because I don't want to sway you ... Not that you will ultimately name our baby but it's fun to hear your reasons and see if they match any of ours ...

Reagan
Keegan
Lily
Eden
Harper
Kharis
Nora
Teegan
Lane
Karsyn
Stori
Keaton

Tell me your thoughts in the comments below ... and if you have any names you like tell me those too ... we are trying to come up with something not so common. I know some of the names on the list are common but they are names we like so they are on the list.

Oh what a night!

So I couldn't sleep last night! From like 2 AM on I was tossing and turning. I think I finally went back to sleep around 5:45 AM ... Just in time to get up at 6ish. Perfect! :)

You would think that I was going into labor tomorrow or next month not 4ish months from now, give or take. I was going through names in my head, trying to figure out what color to paint the nursery, pining over peoples reaction and thinking about Jeremy's new project in our garage. :) Oy vey, those of you that know me really well will just smile and laugh at me because you know this is me. Others will want to have me locked up in a padded room or something - don't worry this is just me. I'm a planner and that switch is so hard to turn off! So hard!

Naming this baby has been something we have talked about for a while. We had names already picked out with the boys if they were boys before the ultrasound so it was so easy. Kennedy was harder even though Kennedy was our girl name had Ryan been a girl. For some reason we didn't just LOVE it when we heard the tech tell us we were having a girl. Now, we had a boy name picked out going into our ultrasound but we are miles away from a girl name. There is a name we both love BUT I'm afraid of what may come for my girls if we name this one that name. So we are both still tossing it around. Maybe one day we will throw it on the blog for a poll and get your thoughts - all 5 of your thoughts :)

Oh well, I must get my munchkins up and ready for church. Tomorrow school starts so we have a ton of things to do today to get ready for tomorrow. I can't believe I'll have a first grader and a kindergartner in my house. Teary just typing that .....

It's a .....

GIRL!! It was so exciting to find out today what we are having! Yesterday was our ultrasound and we asked our tech to call a friend of ours instead of telling us the gender. So for the past 24 hours we have all been wondering what was inside my belly :)

My parents were in town, and Jeremy's parents were here also. We all went to lunch together and after lunch they brought out the cake that my friend had made for us.

The knife went in clean and came out with a touch of pink on it. We all squealed with delight and the kids went nuts. Pace ran around the table, Kennedy screamed and Ryan just smiled really big. Afterward, all they could say is "I can't believe it's a girl, God answered our prayers!"

It was quite surreal ... I'm so glad we didn't find out yesterday and we waited until today. I got choked up and almost cried. It was just such a fun way to find out and have our parents there with us made this last one even more special. I could have never made it to the end not knowing but it would have been a fun surprise if I was the type of person who could wait 4 more months. But, I'm such a planner that I cannot do that. So today was just perfect for our family.

Now the fun of planning a nursery begins ..... what am I going to do with 2 girls???? We are all so excited. We also have to pick a name which is going to be incredibly difficult to do .... Maybe by the birth we will have one picked out :)

We have a name!

I'm excited to report that we have a name! We are both very excited to announce that our baby girl will be named .... Kennedy Nicole.

Kennedy is a name we have liked since 2004 when we were preggers with Ryan. Once we found out she was a girl we had a hard time, for some reason deciding to actually use it. Part of it had to do with a meaning I found and part of it had to do with wanting to see what other names we could find that we might like better. We spent an afternoon in a bookstore pouring through baby name books and one of the books had other forms for Kennedy and one of those was Kenneth. The deal was sealed for me right then and there. You see, I have this fantastic uncle Kenny. He was the one that we all were excited to see b/c he was a big kid at heart. He loved us and he showed it to us. My grandparents always went camping during the summer when I was a kid and Kenny and my aunt Susan would always come down at some point during our time there. He would bring all his toys ... boat, skis, etc. As you can imagine we had a ball. He was always going out of his way to make sure we all had a great time.

In 2004 he was diagnosed with cancer. He battled bravely for over 2 years with this ugly disease and went home to be with the Lord in December of 2006. I look forward to telling Kennedy all about her great Uncle Kenny and what a great guy he was. He was always looking out for everyone else ahead of himself.

I can't wait to be able to show you all pictures of our little one come August when she makes her arrival. For now she is causing pain already as my sciatica is already acting up. I had problems with it during my pregnancy with Pace as well. Here's hoping it will subside some so that I can enjoy this time with my family and not be in constant pain.

So there you have it ... her name is chosen!

Monday Accomplishments

I got SOOO much done yesterday! However, it was so weird to not change Pace's diapers or play cars with my boys.

Here's what I did ...

• Ryan's monthly album - I took pictures of him monthly from birth until 12 months then I took 15 and 18 month before moving to yearly shots on his birthday. So yesterday I took all the 5x7's and put them in an album my mom gave me over a year ago.
• Pace's monthly album - same as Ryan's only with pictures of Pace :)
• Our wedding album - yes we were married almost 5 years ago and I just got around to putting our pictures in an album. My mom does creative memories and in order to save money and get more pictures, I opted to just buy prints from my photographer and not get the fancy album. My mom gave me a black album with black pages and I figured I would just do it myself. Here we are almost 5 years later and they were still in the envelope and I had done nothing with them. So yesterday I pulled out the prints I bought plus the proof book and went to town. I showed the finish product to my husband last night. It was fun to relive the memories!
• We picked a name - but that's a whole other post that I'll save for another day. But she does have a name! YEAH!

So today my plan is to work on Ryan & Pace's baby album. I have only done Ryan's album up until he was 5 months old. So I have some work ahead of me. I think I have over 1000 pictures combined of both boys. Poor Pace's book has not even been started. My goal by the end of the week is to have made a huge dent in both boys books and maybe even start a book of them together! Hopefully, by the time this little girl is born I'll have the boys finished so I can begin to get behind from that point forward and not have all the past pictures looming over my head as well :) Wish me luck!

It's quiet

It is quiet around here! No pitter, patter of feet. No laughing from little voices. No screaming or fighting between two little ones. It's odd! However, I know all these things are happening from the time I spent on the phone with them yesterday.

Ryan is pushing my mom's buttons thinking she fell off the cabbage truck yesterday. My how early they learn ... "When mom's away the Mice will play". Mom has told me some of the things he has told her and I just shake my head and laugh! He's a funny kid!

Jeremy and I had a wonderful day yesterday. We got up late *7 AM* .. late for us anyway. We went to breakfast and then were able to casually stroll through target. Looking and dreaming of the little girl that is to come in August. It was fun. We also went to the mall and took a stroll through a few baby stores. We sat in a book store and looked through baby name books ... we are still no closer to a name than we were before we walked in the room.

I have plans this week to work on my scrap booking. I have lots to do as I am so far behind on both boys books. Hopefully this week I will be able to accomplish some of what I have been longing to do for a while but find hard to do with little hands around :)

Back in the running

Yesterday I got the following e-mail from a friend. Acutally, her husband was the music minister at our church when I was in Jr. High and High School. They moved on and so did I but we still keep in touch. Her e-mail said the following ...

Actually what the meaning of Kennedy is referring to is a helmeted head--like a soldier. If you think of it like wearing the helmet of salvation, it isn't bad at all. The other names are pretty, too, but you don't have to rule out Kennedy. Her verse can be Ephesians 6:17: "Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."

I'm back in love with it again ... Thanks Jada! But I've also fallen for a few other ones as well ... oh it's so hard to pick a name!

Baby Names

Well, once we found out the baby was a girl the whole name issue came up. I found out that the meaning of Kennedy is ugly head. Not too sure I want to give my child a name with that meaning. However, we both still really like the name. So we are throwing around other names and well, nothing has really hit us like it did with Ryan & Pace.

So here are a few of our choices ... Keep in mind the middle name will either be Carol or Nicole. Let us know your thoughts ...

Ashlyn
Autumn
Brook
Brooklyn
Caitlin, Kaitlyn
Eden
Kennedy - name means ugly head though?
Lily
Mackenzie
Mikayla
Skylar, Skyler

Names?

OK so we have been thinking of names lately and would love you to leave us a comment on your thoughts.

We had a girl name picked out when we were pregnant with Ryan and are pretty sure we will stick with it ... though it could change.

Our girl name is Kennedy Carol - Carol was my aunt's name and she passed in the summer of 04 after a long battle with Cancer. Kennedy is a name we fell in love with before we ever got pregnant with Ryan.

Now, the boy names are what we are having a hard time with ... Both of our boys have family names for both first and middle. We are trying to decide whether to have this baby (because it will be a boy!) have family names for first and middle or just middle. The middle name will most likely be James (after my grandfather and also Jeremy's dad)

So here are some names we are throwing around for boys .... you can leave your input in the comments ... This list has been forming since we found out we were pregnant so it is a little long ... It's just a first list ... our first thoughts ...

• Logan (Ryan wants to name him this)
• Kieran (scottish name we loved from our mission trip to Scotland)
• Keegan
• Peyton (no we are not colt fans nor manning fans)
• Asher
• Brooks
• Nicholas (call him Cole - my middle name is Nicole)
• Davis
• Liam
• Hayden
• Jarrett
• Kale
• Owen
• Lane
• Micah
• Noah
• Zane
• Lance

There are a few others but this is enough! There are so many to choose from. So give us your thoughts ... if there is another name you like ... tell us that too. We will find out the first of April what we are having. (boy)