Per request I thought I would give a little background on how we came up with the name Abram Tim.

He is actually named after an old boyfriend of mine. Just kidding although I did date an Abram, nice kid, but we only went out once. No seriously, that is not how we got the name though. As alot of you know we like to name our kids after members of our family history. So after finding out we were pregnant I like to go on familysearch.org and look at our different options, and let me tell you we have a ton of Williams in the family. Ty and I could never agree on a name so I decided to go to the social security website and wrote down a ton of names and IM-ed them to Ty who wrote back and said he felt something special when he read the name Abram. Of course I did warn him I dated someone by that name and since he didn’t care… it stuck with us. And technically it is a family name since Father Abraham was Abram before the Lord changed his name. (see Genesis 17:5)  So see we did stick with a family name.

Now as for the middle name…. Tim is my dad’s nickname. When he was a kid he would fall over a lot (maybe that is where I get it from) and they would yell “Timber” when he was around; over time it got shortened to Tim.  True story. My mom always called him Tim and so forever I thought that was his real name not Brent so since that is all I have ever known him by- besides dad.  Therefore,Tim is thename our son will be given to be named after one of my heroes-my dear, sweet, amazing, loving father. I only hope that our son will grow up to be a lot like him.

My dad, Brent "Tim" Stout holding Marriah less than an hour old.

We woke up at 7:00 this morning to make it to our early appointment in Idaho Falls. Two months ago they told me to schedule my appointment for this day so I did and even reconfirmed it at last month’s appointment. However, when I showed up this morning they didn’t have me on the schedule as an ultrasound  but rather as a check up and said they were too booked to do it today. I haven’t been too thrilled with this new office as it is and now this was nearly sending me over the edge into a fit. Luckily the doctor came in and promised that I could at least check the gender today but would have to come back in for the rest of the ultrasound in two weeks. Ugh. That at least calmed me enough not to start hollering at everyone that worked there. But I must say they better not send me a bill for their screw up dang it. Okay now that that is out of my system I will share what we were lucky to find out this morning…

Introducing Abram Tim Ashcraft, our son! We are happy. Of course we would have been happy either way so…I guess this evens us up.  Jacob seems to think its cool that he willhave a brother to race monster trucks with. Elizza still doesn’t understand the difference between girls and boys and Marriah…well we will just say I hope she gets over not being the baby anymore.

This week Tyler and I are going in to see what the gender of our baby is. I am so excited! Oh, for those of you that don’t know we are expecting in October. Three in three years I know I have heard all sorts of comments about it. Some I don’t care to repeat. But oh well, even though it was a surprise we love our kids and happily welcome one more. So here’s your chance to guess what you think it will be. Sorry there is no prize, I am just interested in what everyone will say. So go ahead take a guess…boy or girl?