What's In A Name?

Ryan and I knew long before we were even pregnant with "Walnut" what our baby names were going to be. We had narrowed down the first names on both the boy and girl sides and then once we were pregnant we picked out our middle names (which was also pretty easy task for us).

We both really liked the name Kate. We thought it was a nice, strong name that went well with Michel. Kate's middle names are Inez Elizabeth and we get asked often where we got these names from. Kate is named after my Grandma Enion, who passed away in 2001. Although Kate will never get to meet her Great Grandma, she will know what a special lady she was named after.

My Grandma Enion was an absolutely amazing woman. She was loving, caring, intelligent, classy and family oriented. She was the only girl in a family with 10 children. Being the only girl with 9 brothers, she played an integral role in keeping that family running. She was a historian, who loved to keep track of our family history. She kept and dated old photos with names and stories and I always joke that Grandma was a "scrapbooker" before they came out with the fancy punches and stickers. People enjoyed spending time with my Grandma and I will never forget her funeral when the entire town of Maryfield was there and spilling out of the church to pay their respects and to say goodbye to her. She had a warmth and a presence that made people love to be around her and she was also a very strong, independent woman. Inez Elizabeth was the kind of woman that I can only hope that our little girl grows up to be just like!