Show & Tell Tuesday: Names

Linking up with Andrea for another edition of Show and Tell Tuesday and today I'm sharing all about how we named Riley & how we got our names. This is such a fun topic! I'm so excited to share & read all about your name stories! 

Let's start with Riley.

Riley Olivia.

We found out we were having a girl at an ultrasound appointment the morning we left to go up to Virginia to visit my sister and her family. At the time we were living in Georgia and the trip was roughly 9 hours so it gave us a ton of time to really discuss names for our baby girl. Growing up I had all these ideas about what I would name my children & not one of them made the list haha. Mike and I both really like uni-sex names for girls; Taylor, Dylan, Logan, etc. While we were driving in the car, I was on Instagram on my phone. I follow Molly Mesnick, Jason Mesnick's wife from the Bachelor, and she had posted a picture of their daughter, Riley, to their Instagram. I turned to Mike and said "What about Riley?" and immediately he said yes. Her name was decided the same day we found out we were having a girl. Our family and friends all knew we were having a girl, but we only told a select few what her name was going to be. We posted this picture in October and we got a whole bunch of guesses on her name (a few actually got it right!).

Her middle name, Olivia, was a bit more difficult to decide on. We pretty much  decided the night before I went into labor. I was falling asleep and all of a sudden the name just popped into my head. I rolled over, told Mike, and he agreed that is was perfect. We liked when names sort of roll off the tongue and Riley Olivia Lindquist flows really well. I'm not sure why Olivia popped into my head, but I will say that I was watching Scandal and Olivia Pope is the main character so maybe that's where I got her name.

Now onto how Mike and I were named.

Michael John.

I asked my hubby if he knew how his parents named him and all he could tell me was that he knew but couldn't remember other than that his middle name is after his grandfather. 

Alyssa Marie.

My older sister named me. She was a teenager and my parents wanted her to feel included in the whole "new baby" aspect of things. Growing up she loved the show "Who's the Boss", which stars Alyssa Milano, and that is how I got my name. Not sure where Marie comes from though. And funny story, one of my closest friends in High School was named after her cast name Samantha! We realized one day when we were discussing how we were named, at lunch.

So that's how we were named!

Here are some topics we'll be discussing in coming weeks. In two weeks, I'll be sharing all about my favorite party that I've hosted!

Hope you all have a great day!