Hello everyone!

If you didn’t know we announced our sweet baby girls name; Annabelle Jeanne.  Check out the video when we revealed the name!

I have gotten some questions on how we chose her name.  For starters for those of you that don’t know our son is named after his dad and grandad but his nickname is Tripp (because he is a third).  When we found out we were pregnant I actually went through my ancestry.com page and looked at all of the names in my family that were “A” names. I wanted to have at least one of the names be something from my family. Also, just an FYI I love names that can have nicknames!

The First Name

Through my research and once we knew we were having a girl I had found that my great grandmothers name was “Anabel” and immediately loved it! I mentioned the name to my husband and he loved it too.  However, we kind of felt like hey that was too easy… so we went through a ton of other names seeing if they fit…. but in the end we came back to the name Anabel.  We both however, wanted to spell it differently. After some talking we decided on Annabelle and I loved all the nickname possibilities!

The Middle Name

For a middle name we knew we would some how incorporate my mom’s name; she passed away about 6 years ago.  We went back and forth on using Jeanne or Marie but in the end thought it would be fun to use the name “Jeanne” pronounced “Jean” [FYI my mom pronounced her name “Jean-ie”].  Jean is actually my husbands mom’s middle name and was her mom’s middle name too.  So it worked out that it actually is a family name from both sides!

So there it is… how we chose the baby name.  I won’t lie it was really hard and it took us awhile before we finally had a name and we went back and forth for awhile.

PS Did you have a hard time with baby names?  Also, would y’all like to see a “top ten” names list video?

XOXO Gabbing Ginger