How did we pick our kids names!?

Picking your child’s name is SO hard. I mean they are going to live with this forever… so don’t mess up folks. Haha. I am so happy with my boys names and couldn’t have imagined picking anything else.

When I found out I was pregnant with Dekker I had never thought about names before really. I know people who have them picked out before they are even pregnant and I am so not that person. I am the most indecisive person, so this was going to be tough for more.  I always knew I didn’t want my children’s names to be something of ordinary, but it’s hard to keep up with it all I feel like. Right before we were about to do a gender reveal we had a name we both loved, Jax. & we had a girl name( but not sharing 🤦🏼‍♀️) We had planned that we would not be sharing any names but right when we found out it was a boy my husband told everyone we kind of had a set name, Jax. Instantly I was like the x and the s in our last name Smith clash and we quickly cut that out. So fast forward a few weeks, my husband and I laid in bed  while I was pregnant with Dekker trying so hard to come up with some names. I wanted options because I knew that if I picked one name it would bug me the whole time, and in the back of my head I would be asking myself a million times if I was sure. To avoid my head from running a million miles an hour we picked a few. I would ramble off lists that I found on line on Pinterest after searching “ original baby names” , “ modern Baby names” you name it… I searched it. From the get go we had the name Brody on the list but never a top contender( & I am SO glad that didn’t make the cut). I saw a picture on Pinterest of a Baby named Cannon and we LOVED it, so that quickly popped on our list. As I was rambling off names from bob to Maddox.. Decker came up on ONE list. Most of the list I had found were all so similar, but Decker was on one list! My husband instantly said “wait I kind of like that!” And I was like “ really… okay” After that he wouldn’t stop talking to me about this name, and it quickly became a name I loved too but was not willing to make the decision yet. Up to the point we went into the hospital we had three names and a for sure middle name of, Drew( after my father that passed away). I laid on the hospital bed getting ready to have my baby Boy and I was like Cody we need to decide on a name!! And we both knew what it was we wanted without even further discussing it,  Dekker Drew❤

Kanon was a little easier. Since it was on our list with Dekker we still LOVED it. We both felt it just went so well with Dekker and we never even thought about another name. Although my mind did wander…wondering if I was sure every single day! Haha. Kanon’s middle name was more of a challenge because we wanted it from my husbands side but there wasn’t much to choose from that we loved. We ended up going with Gane after my husbands dad, Gary Wayne and I am SO glad we did.

As I mentioned before we didn’t tell anyone Dekkers name before he was born and it was SO special when we did. As every person or group of people came into the room to meet him we told them his  sweet name❤ When Kanon was born  everyone pretty much knew besides his middle name and we told my in laws when they came into meet him that he was going to be named after my father in law.