And her name will be.....

Hallie Ray Hembree

When deciding on our little girl's name we didn't agree for the first 20 weeks.  Ben had names he liked, I had names that I really liked as well.  SO... we agreed not to discuss it until we found out what we were having! So the day or two after we found out we turned to the good ole internet for suggestions.  It went back and forth for awhile with no consensus.  Out of the blue I mentioned the name Hallie and we both really liked it.  Then of course I turned once again to the internet and found out that her name is really short for Hallelujah and means Praise the Lord!  With having such a difficult time getting pregnant with Chance, God really blessed our family quickly with our little girl and what else could we say but PRAISE THE LORD!  Her middle was very easy to choose!  My middle is Ray, my sweet GeeGee's middle name was Ray as well as her mother.  It always bothered me growing up that it was a boy name, but as I have grown up I would not change it for the world!  It has such a special meaning to me and my family being named for my GeeGee Dorothy Ray (those who knew her can attest to what an amazing woman she really was!) I always joke that Ray really stands for Ray of Sunshine when discussing my own name.  So there we go our little girl has such a special name and means so much, and we cannot wait to meet her!  Praise the Lord for our little Ray of sunshine:)) Chance Russell's name by the way does not have such a story, but no less meaning to us.  He is named after Ben's granddaddy Howard Russell, and we really just liked the name Chance.  Chance by the way really has no idea that I am pregnant and what that means, but can point to my belly when asked about the baby!  Last night he said Hallie for the first time and I just about cried!  He is such a sweet little guy that is going to make such a great big brother!