and the time has come...

that's right... the time has come to reveal the Burns Twins names.




Thanks to all that participated! It was fun for us getting to hear all the guesses...good and bad...and talking to some people that we haven't talked to in a while.

The winners are:

for Nora Grayce, we had quite a few people guess the right name in the end, just not all spelled correctly!
First Place--Michelle Little
Second Place--Jennifer Allen
for Holden Reece, although i saw the name guessed within a large list--no one ever settled on it, so we have decided to award the prize to the 2 people who considered it first.
First Place--Dad and Anne
Second Place--Jennifer Allen

I would also like to give out some honorable mentions/facts of everyone's guesses:

The most popular guessed boy name was by far Hayden...very close, but no cigar!
The most popular guessed girl name was Natalie.

The most creative and well-thought out guess award goes to both Katie Kirkpatrick and Michelle Little. They included explanations with their name guesses, like Noelle for its Christmas association.

The most energetic and funny participant award goes to our Aunt Lou Ann--she repeatedly cracked Mike and I up.

The worst name guesser award goes to Jake Sweatland...we love you, but really? Horatio Rasputin and Noah Gorbachov? we're glad you did a better job with your own son!

The quickest guesser award goes to Dad and Anne. Although, Nora was spelled instead with an H--they had ALL the correct names on their lists after the first week. We were thoroughly impressed!

Okay well, i guess the only thing left we have to keep you all waiting, besides seeing these lovely babies faces, is the nursery. And i get LOTS of requests for pics...i'm not holding out, i am just trying to finish it up. Curtains came in this week, so there are just a few more things to do, if my good friend Marybeth would just lay her busy life aside for awhile and come help a poor pregnant girl out i'd be done! Pics will be up soon, promise!

Hint #4

sorry i'm a day late.... i honestly forgot yesterday was friday!

okay, here's the last hint...results will come out on Monday...but that's Monday my time, so unless you are a VERY late-nighter, i can't promise it'll be out before you go to bed!

Both first names have a literary connection

--i would like to say that we didn't choose these names because of this hint, it just so happens to be true!

Happy Guessing! and Have a good weekend!

Hint #3

Origins are this weeks hints....this should definitely help narrow things down for some of you!

N (English) G (Latin)

H (English) R (Welsh)

The next hint will be given on Friday and then you will have the weekend to narrow down your answers. Monday we will announce the winners. Happy Guessing!

hint # 2

okay it's time for your next hint....this one focuses specifically on first names, most of you are finding the middle ones pretty easily.

... We do not personally know anyone with these names, nor are they on the top 100 lists of names from 2008. ....

happy guessing!

HINT #1

So, we've had some good guesses and then we have had some very "interesting" guesses! Thanks to everyone who was participated so far.

I would like to make an addendum to the official game rules....upon further thought, and after some complaining from our "pushy participants" we are going to lift the 3-guess limit. So your guesses are unlimited... just don't send me an email with a TON of names on it. You are much less likely to get feedback that way!

okay...for the hint---and i think this will make most people happy!

Baby Girl's initials are NGB

and

Baby Boy's initials are HRB

Happy Guessing and have a good week!

Well, we can't call them Baby Boy and Baby Girl forever!

Okay. So Mike and I gave ourselves a deadline to decide on baby names and that seems to have worked. We've also been debating on whether to reveal them or not--i mean it's nice to have a surprise once in a while!


But while having lunch with Mike's co-workers at Boston's Pizza they begged with no avail for us to tell them our chosen names. In an attempt to get them to leave us alone we agreed to at least share the initials so they could guess. Thus, the birth of our new blog game---

WHO CAN GUESS THE BURNS TWINS NAMES??

There will be a friends and family winner and a SPO office winner. Of course, as happened with the last blog game, there is a prize to be won--so please play!

Here are the Rules and Regulations:

1. You will have up to 3 guesses with each initial. If you want feedback in between each guess please email us your guesses at jessi.burns@gmail.com. If you do not care for feedback feel free to leave your guesses as a comment on the blog.

2. Spelling is not important unless more than one person has guessed the correct name. In that case, the one with the most correct spelling will win.

3. The first person to correctly guess the name will be the winner. So yes there could be two winners since there are two names.

4. A hint will be posted each week on our blog--so check back!

5. All guesses must be submitted by midnight HST on November 8th.

6. The winners and the baby names will be revealed soon after.

...and the initals are....

Good Luck!