baby name.

{We sent out a letter each day to our families to see if they could guess your name.  On Mother's Day, we gave this letter to my Grandma Walter, Nana Johnson, and my Mom.}

The name we have chosen for our baby girl is to represent three wonderful women in my life.  Their examples, faith, and role model has shaped who I am today and I hope to teach my daughter how to be an amazing woman, as they have shown me.

Nana Johnson has taught me so much about our family and instilled in me a love of family history.  I have loved getting to know my ancestors and hearing their stories.  For this reason weve decided that we want all of our children and their names to represent our strong family ties in some way.

Grandma Walter has been a woman of great strength and faith in my life.  She is a woman that Ive always admired with her kindness, testimony, and love towards everyone.  She spent part of her childhood in Emery County, Utah.  It is for this reason we have selected the name Emery.

Mom (future grandma) has been the best mom.  Everyone says that about their mom, but I really mean it.  She has taught me everything I know and I hope to be just as good of a mother to my children as she has been to me.  Her example of fortitude, courage, and knowing how to have fun will be so important to me as I raise my children.  She wanted our baby to be Gracie, so her middle name is Grace.  That way Grammy can still call her little Gracie.

Thank you for all that you are to us!
Love, Derek and Ashley