What's in a name?

Most people find a family name to give their child. Some look for baby name books and go with whatever is popular on the list for the season. Others find names from movies or books or just whatever seems to grab their attention over the years. For Jeff and I, we've had a girl name picked out since we were dating back in . . . 1990? The name was Evie. We heard the name on a Charmin toilet paper commercial and fell in love with it. In the commercial, this little girl was going to the bathroom when she decides to pull the entire roll off the bolt. Her mom comes in the room and finds her with oodles of toilet paper everywhere and says 'Oh - Evie!' For some reason that name has stuck with us over all these years and we always thought (if we ever did have kids) that we would have a girl. That name, Evie, didn't necessarily have special meaning other than we've just always liked the name. Nothing wrong with that. Throughout the pregnancy Jeff and I became much more aware of how popular the 'E' names were and started second guessing that name . . . thinking we'd really like something more unique and more . . . 'us'. Well, as everyone now knows, we have a boy and we were able to come up with a perfect name that fit us perfectly.

During my first trimester of pregnancy it dawned on us one day that we may not be having a girl. It very well could be a boy and we had zero names for that. Jeff and I rarely agree on names when it ever would come up so we decided we'd better start thinking of some names for the just in case. I guess it was within a few weeks that we were in the car and Jeff says to me, 'So I've been thinking about the boy name...Serif'. Now at first I thought hmmm...not sure. He then began explaining to me how he came up with the name. After hearing his explanation I thought it was genius and the more I thought about it the more I grew to absolutely LOVE it and thought, 'It's perfect!'.

So . . . here's the explanation:
As you all know, Jeff is a graphic designer. He loves type and it plays a major role in what he creates. In typography there are 2 basic classifications of letterforms, Serif and Sans Serif. a sans serif is when a letter is in it's simplest form with not a lot of fuss or additional features. A Serif is a creative little mark added to the letterforms. Notice the little details on the top and bottom of the "S" and the bottom of "rif"? Those are serifs.

In our relationship of 18 years (4 dating & 14 married) we have always been Sans Serif. This little guy, Serif, is now our little addition. He's the addition that adds that creative little flare to our family just as it does with letterforms. So that's the concept behind his name and why we enjoy it so much. It's just . . . us.