What's in a Name?

It's always an important, yet difficult task. Naming your child. In all honesty, Landon and Reid were only picked because we liked the names. Not because they have special meaning or are family names. After all, if you look up Landon you will find that it means a long hill. If you look up Reid you find that it means Red. These meanings aren't all that special. I've always thought a name is a name and the meaning gives no significance to the person whom it will represent. Plus, how many people out there have your name as well...probably more than you think! While I still believe this and am not at all stuck on meanings, we have found it a little more challenging to come up with our third boy name. Probably because we feel that, most likely, this will be our last time to do this. That being said, we have narrowed down our list to 5 names. We feel that we already know which one will represent our third little man, but just for fun we wanted to add a poll on this blog and get your opinion! The outcome of this will not make any decisions for us as we will make the final call based on what we feel is the best fit. We also reserve the right to use none of these names should another one we like pop into our heads. :)  The middle name will most likely be Lanier (la-near), which is my middle name. Aaron's middle name (Aaron) was passed on to Reid so we felt it only fair to pass on something from my family. If you would like, please vote to the right of the blog. You can vote for more than one! Here is a list of the names, their meanings, and a reason we are considering it.

Jordan-means descending. We just like this name but we also like that it represents a country that has some special significance to our family. :)

Mason-means stone worker. We just liked this name!

Josiah-means fire of the Lord. We just liked this name!

Micah-means who is like God. We also just like this name but we thought it was kind of neat that it is part of Aaron's first name, Michael.

Jacob-means the supplanter. Just like this one as well. It was actually one considered for Landon but at the time it just didn't make the top of the list!