Baby Boy Has A Name!!

After lots of deliberation, we FINALLY have a name picked out for our little boy!! I'll tell you the story about how it came to be, but for those that aren't interested in that, I'll go ahead and give you his name first. :)

Zane Elliott Magan

Wow, it actually feels kind of weird to write it and realize that yes, this will be our son's name forever! :) I found the name "Zane" in a baby names book that was passed down to me by my sister-in-law, Misty. In the book it said that it was an English variation of the name "John" so it means the same thing, which is, "God is gracious." Elliott is also Biblical and means "The Lord is my God." Love both of those meanings!!

As most of you know, we've been going back and forth about names for months now. I'd make a list of names I liked; Ryan would look at the list and then tell me to keep searching for names; I'd search for more names and add a couple at a time to the list; they'd get shot down again by Ryan. ;) And so on and so on. Eventually we had it narrowed down to either Zane Elliott or Reid Elliott. (Although Ryan liked to spell it "Reed.") Then it dawned on me one day last week that if we went with Reid, I'd be saying this sentence a lot: "I've got to go feed Reid." And the thought of rhyming like that multiple times a day turned me off of that name!! But I still didn't feel quite sure about Zane. Then the name "Evan" came to me and I REALLY liked that one. But Ryan told me he knew someone growing up named Evan and the guy was weird so Ryan totally didn't want that at all.

All along, I've been waiting for a name to feel "right" to me and felt that God had led us to Karys's name and I knew He had the perfect name for this little guy as well. I was just waiting for that "this is it" feeling. Yesterday I was watching an episode of "The Little Couple" (a show on TLC). The couple in that show is in the process of building a house and this episode involved them trying to pick a color for the exterior of the house. They got it narrowed down to two choices. He liked a greenish color, and she liked a blueish color. So they're back at the house they live in now trying to hammer it out and decide which color to go with. And finally she says, "Let's paint the house green." Her reason? Because she loves her husband and he wants green so she wants to do something he'd love. All of a sudden I got my "this is it" feeling because I realized that we were in a similar situation. We both had a name that we felt drawn to...I actually liked both names, but was favoring Evan (Ryan, hated Evan, but still...similar scenarios. ;). I started thinking about how Karys's name was my idea and it just happened that Ryan liked it so that's what we went with. This time around, we're having a boy and I just felt like I wanted to let our little boy's name be the one his daddy wanted him to have. So now it's set...he has a name! :) (If you hate it, try to get used to it...maybe you'll like it. ;) If you love it, feel free to say so. :)

**Disclaimer: For those of you who know Jaime, I promise I found the name "Zane" in a book before I knew that's what they would be using as a middle name. I promise I didn't just rip it out of the name they chose!!