Evie's "Real" Name

I'd like to introduce Miss Genevieve Rose!  

For anyone who reads regularly, this 14 month old probably looks pretty familiar.  You might also know her as "Evie."

Before M and I even started trying to conceive we had already discussed names that we liked.  I mentioned that I had always loved my great-grandmother's name, Genevieve.  M said that he always liked his great-grandmother's name, Rose.  The two names worked well together, and we decided that the "hand me down name" Genevieve Rose would be the name if we ever had a baby girl.  

When I got pregnant, we hesitated with our name choices.  We had some pretty big disagreements over it all.  No matter what other names came up, we kept coming back to Genevieve Rose.  My biggest hesitation was a nickname for it.  My great-grandma went by Gen (pronounced "Jen"), and I didn't really care for that.  Our baby name book listed "Eve" and "Evie" as possible nicknames Genevieve, so that's how she got the name Evie!

Did you have a hard time deciding on your child's name?  Is he/she named after someone?

Introducing...

The V family!

This pictures is a little outdated (from Thanksgiving).  I'll get some new ones up soon!

 We are a family of three: Mama V (me), Daddy V (aka M), and adorable Baby V (aka Evie).  We also have a dachshund mix named Keeka.

Keeka

 I have been thinking about jumping on the blogging bandwagon for quite a while, and decided it was finally time to take the leap.

Our backgroud (in a nutshell):
M and I, both raised in Wisconsin, have been together for almost ten years.  We met in college through friends, and have been together ever since.  We got married on October 1, 2005.  I'm a middle/high school teacher, and M works in sales for a brewing distributor. We added Evie to the mix on July 24, 2010. 

My blog name comes from a line in the song that M and I had as our first dance at our wedding.  We are both shameless country music fans, and our first dance was "My Best Friend" by Tim McGraw.  The line goes "Life with you makes perfect sense/You're my best friend."

I plan to blog about the trials and tribulations of every day life as a beginning family.  I know that I'm one of many to do this, but our story is special because it's ours.  I hope you enjoy reading it, as much I enjoy writing about it!