Out with the Old, In with the New...

So...I just noticed that when I changed my background, I lost the poll results. If you are interested, I think the results for AL's ear piercing reflected 13 for "yes" & 10 for "no". As for who AL looks like, I think majority was for "Brian", "Lauren" had 1 vote & a few votes for "Both".


Brian & I have always been quite annoyed with how popular both of our names are. Throughout high school, I was known as Campbell because in our little group of friends I was one of three Lauren's. Even in college, I had a roommate named Lauren. As for Brian, between the two of us, we know 8 or 9 Brian's. With his friends, Brian is known as Brooks.

When we got pregnant & started looking at names, we tried very hard to find a name that was extremely uncommon. We thought we had succeeded with Ansley until the day we decided for sure that Ansley was THE name. From that day on, I hear the name "Ansley" all over the place. As of a couple months ago, I started calling our daughter Lawson because I hear Ansley so often & as stupid as it may be, it irks me. She responds to both names because Brian still calls her Ansley and I have gone back & forth because I'm slightly embarrassed to tell people that I want to call her by her middle name now. But as of yesterday, I am sticking with Lawson. We were out shopping & on two separate occasions, I heard "Ansley".

This is part of the reason I have been using "AL" on all the blog entries. As for Lawson, we chose this name because it was my Nana's middle name & her mother's maiden/middle name. I have wanted to use Lawson as the name of my first born since the moment I heard it. I wanted to use it as AL's first name, but Brian liked it better for a boy's first name.

So after all that, I just wanted to get it out there, so in the future, when you hear me calling our daughter "Lawson", you know why. But, like I said, she does respond to both names, so feel free to call her what ever you'd like.



Much Love,
Brian, Lauren & Ansley