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.