What's In a Name?

On July 30, 2013 we welcomed our beautiful sweet baby boy Ryker James into the world. He is a easy going, happy guy that helps balance the crazy from Hurricane Harper in our lives. People are always intrigued about his name and how we came up with it, so I thought I would share the story of his name.

Evan and I have always thrown around possible baby names for future use. Our list was always in abundance of boys names vs. girls. Yet, on the day we found out we were actually having a boy none of those names were good enough. We tossed around names to each other after that, both of us veto-ing each others choices. We had a small list of 4-5 names all of which we liked a lot, but none that we both LOVED.

Then one day Evan suggested the name Ryker! I immediately loved it, but told him I wanted to mull it over first. After researching the name I knew we had found our son's name! Ryker is the Danish form of the name Richard - (Evan's grandparents are Dutch and my grandfather's name is Richard). Also, the name means strong, powerful!

I am so happy we found the perfect name for our little man!