how our girls got their names

Avery Louise
Avery was a name John and I both loved as soon as we heard it. Matt’s (John’s best friend) ex-girlfriend is named Avery. That is where we had both first heard it. We agreed on it right away. We didn’t know if Av was a boy or a girl until she was born and right up until the end we didn’t have a boy’s name. Even in the hospital when I was being induced at 41 weeks we still had nothing. I was panicking. We were just meant to have our little Avery. Both grandmothers have the middle name Louise. How lucky did we get on that????

Camille Anne
We took a family vacation in the middle of my pregnancy. We had a lot of names we liked but had not decided on anything. My sister and I were in this big huge bathroom of the house we rented getting ready. She said “what about Camille?” I loved it instantly. John not so much. He kept telling me no. Until one day I got a phone call from him saying he had changed his mind and he was ready to name our second little girl Camille. He happened to be in Europe when he made that call. He was staying at a house his company rented out for their employees when they were there. The owners of the house lived attached to it and had a little girl named Camille. He said she was so cute and she reminded him a lot of Avery. Until then he just didn’t think it fit for a little girl. Anne is my middle name. My mom’s name and her mom’s name both have Anne in it.