I Have the Answers!

So after taking forever to get around to doing this I finally finished. Thanks for asking such great questions!

What did you want to grow up and be as a child?
I was ALWAYS changing my mind. Pretty much if you name a job I had thought about it. I started out as an elementary education major in college. I spent some time in the classroom and realized that teaching was not for me. I changed my major to marketing and corporate communications, a field that much better suited me!

I'd like to hear the story about how you and your husband met at the zoo.
If you missed my post, I did not meet my husband at the zoo where you see animals. It was a zoo where they served beer...our college town bar!  I wish I had some big romantic story but I don't. It was a Thursday night and we were both there with friends. I was dancing and he came up and danced with me. I knew who he was and he knew who I was, but we had never talked before. We started dating a few weeks after we met and the rest is history!
What names other than Drake did you consider before he arrived?
For a long time we had a list of three names: Drake, Charlie, and Finn.
I really loved Charlie, but it seemed like everywhere I went I was hearing a girl with that name and I started not to like it as much. I also love Finn, but I never sold Ben on that name. When I was about 6 months pregnant we decided that we both loved the name Drake since it was easy to spell, a definite boys name, not too common, and went well with our last name. The second we saw our son we knew we picked the right name as he just seemed like a Drake!

How did you tell Ben you were pregnant?
This is kinda a weird story. We had been trying to get pregnant for 14 months before it finally happened. During this time I was also loosing a lot of weight by eating healthy and working out. One night we were watching TV and a Pizza Hut commercial came on, I turned to Ben and said "When we find out I'm pregnant we are ordering Pizza Hut, because it looks so good but really does not fit on my new healthy eating plan."

Fast forward to December 4, 2008. I was home alone, took a pregnancy test, saw it was positive and called Ben at work and said "Looks like we are ordering Pizza Hut tonight." It took him a second to put it together but he was SO excited once he got it! Told you it was weird!!!

What is your number one hope/dream for Drake in his adult life?
This is actually a really tough question because I have so many hopes and dreams for him. So I'm going to cheat and name a few!!  I hope he lives life to the fullest and lives in the moment. I hope that he values education. I hope that he knows the importance of family. I hope that he loves and loves deeply. I hope that he has respect for himself and others. I could go on and on but those are my tops!!

Hopefully you feel like you know me just a little bit better now. I like to mix things up on the blog so look for some other fun and different things soon!