Saturday, January 12, 2008

What's in a name?

When talking about what to name the baby we knew that we liked the idea of using family names. We asked both parents for a list of names from both sides and while some names were funny, like Mercy Mae, we liked what we had to work with. We decided to use the name Emory for either the first or middle name whether it was a boy or girl. Emory is named after Chelle's grandpa, Emory "Mick" Bensen (pictured below). We also decided to use the name Jane because we both had grandma's with Jane as their middle name: Betty Jane Zimmerman and Lela Jane Dess.


3 comments:

Sharee Forman said...

Hey Chelle, I just found your blog and your sweet Emory is just the cutest little thing!! CONGRATULATIONS!!

The Davies said...

i love the name!!!

Anonymous said...

Hi Grant and Chelle
I am so glad that you consider-ed naming Emory after my father, he
would have been so excited to have
a child named after him. We also
think it was great to include the
Zimmerman-Dess side also with the
middle name. ( I am getting to like Lucy hint hint) ha!
love, grandma& grandpa z