And the winner is....

Patricia WaitForIt Snow
see near the bottom for the story on the bunny

For a couple years now, we have watched American Idol with some of our friends. The main idea is that we eat dinner and watch the show. Every week, we take a vote to see who is going home. Last year, the competition got serious since Cody and Jessica were pregnant during the season. The winner was supposed to get to name their child. I won but did not choose Caroline. I feel robbed! 

This year, our child's name was up for grabs. From the beginning, I said that I should get to name this one since they didn't follow the rules last year. Kind of like a courtesy for being cheated out of the glory last year. We continued to vote each week. There were many good submissions...

Travis'- Catniss WaitForIt Snow,

Kristin's- Yellow Winter Snow,

Andy's- well, he got too distracted by seeing the Dreamgirl's (i don't know who the lady was, other than she was an original Dreamgirl, Jennifer Holiday maybe?) hair move separately from the rest of her body and her facial expressions in slow motion as we watched

Robin's- Bonnie O. Snow (she chose Bonnie so that our little family would be PB&J. she couldn't decide on an O middle name but knew that it had to start with one so she would be BOS. )

Jessica's- Baracka Obamaniqua 

Preston and I did not make a submission. We felt that we were too close to the matter. HOWEVER... we had already chosen a name! For the longest time, we were just tossing some around and really hadn't made a decision.

One evening we set out to Michael's to buy letters. Then we painted them. Then I covered them with scrapbook paper and we poured them. Next, Hubby worked on the 'frame'. Lastly, you will see the finished product.

Pink paint time!

Green paint time!

Pour time!

Getting those bubbles out with the blow torch!

Measure twice, drill and cut once!

Drum Roll Please......

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Our little Snowflake has a name!!!!

From now until forever she will be Kinley Elise! 

How did we decide? We just made a little list of names and would occasionally rule one out for one reason or another. 

Many of you know that Marie is a big name in my family. I am named after my Nandy, my Mom's middle name was also Marie, my cousin's middle name is Marie and her daughter's middle name is Marie. While it is a nice name... I was kind of over it. I was glad to hear at my school shower that my Pa was over it too. Since we had not chosen a name, they went around the room in ABC order giving suggestions. When it got to Pa, he said, "It's not my place to name that baby. That is for her Mom and Dad. I just hope it isn't Marie." His thinking was along the same lines as mine. While it's nice, it needs a break.

Now back to American Idol. Robin brought dessert and a can of frosting to write the winning baby name on the cake. (if you remember back about 12 weeks, she brought a cake and frosting to celebrate our Snowflake being a girl. you can see it here...) Unless we happened to have already named her and willing to share. How sweet.

I am not destined to be a cake decorator seeing that I can't even write a name nicely.

Robin was so excited/nervous to look!

Our little family

Bunny story... Since Cody, Travis and Preston tied for the most points, they were in charge of naming the bunny that was gift from Robin. Preston didn't submit a name so Travis and Cody split the naming victory. Now the bunny will be Patty or Pat the Bunny. We just need to go buy the book to go with it.

And now, for the finished product of my $2 project!

It's holds her diaper stacker up!

I ripped the other paper off, painted it, and added her name and a butterfly to match her bedding. :)