The Miskin Family

My friend Sarah blogged about this last week, and I thought it was an awesome idea! This site gives you a topic every Friday to blog about for “Tuesday Tell All”. It is really cool because it is a great way to document things for posterity, and for people to get to know you better. So, from now on I will try to blog my “Tuesday Tell All” every week, and I think you should too!
This weeks topic: Whats in a Name.

My first and middle name both have a story. Before I was born my Mom was reading a book and she read that there was a city in England named Brittany. She really liked the name a lot, but wanted it to be pronounced Britt-NEY instead of Britt-ANY. However, the doctor told my Mom she was having another boy when she was pregnant with me (it was just a guess though, no gender ultrasounds back then). So, my name was supposed to be Evan, which is the name of my Nephew! My middle name is Joyce. This came from my grandma (my Dad’s Mom). I was her only grand daughter, and have inherited many things from her since her death 5 1/2 years ago. I was also able to do her temple work, and have her sealed to my Grandpa (who is still alive) and also stand her in place to have my father sealed to her and my grandpa. It was a really neat experience for me to do that.

Tanner’s name story is kind of funny. When I was pregnant with Tanner, and we knew we were having a boy, we had a hard time picking out a name. One day we were sitting in church and Trent leans over and says, “What about Tanner?” I instantly loved it. The funny part is that we had a little boy in our Primary class named Branson Tanner, so we joke that his name came from that. It is partly true though, because we probably would have never thought of that name if he hadn’t been in our primary class! Tanner’s middle name is Dee. Trent’s brother Kory’s middle name is Dee, and so it Trent’s Dad’s middle name. Dee was a friend of Trent’s Grandpa in grade school. There is a story about how they become friends, and it is really cool, but now I can’t remember it. But we met Dee at Grandpa’s funeral last year, and we got the story then, I should’ve written it down.

Trent and I picked Natalya’s name out after we were engaged. Trent served his mission in Ukraine and wanted to name our future daughter a Ukrainian name. I think at the time we threw around a couple names and decided we liked Natalya. Back then we were going to name her Natalya Alexandria. Then, fast forward 3 years we, found out were were having a girl and decided that we didn’t want her sounding too Ukrainian (or Russian) especially with a Russian sounding last name. Then it was an easy choice: Joyce! Named after me, her maternal great grandma, and her paternal grandma! Yes, her grandma Miskin’s name is Joyce too! Can’t go wrong with that one! Oh, and once I looked up the meaning of Natalya: Little Gymnast! Perfect!

This may be too much for everyone, but I have future kids names picked out too. If our next baby is a boy, he will be Logan Kenneth (I just have to finish convincing Trent on this one, I wanted to name Tanner Logan, but I have been patient). Kenneth comes from my Grandpa (it is also my Dad, brother and Nephew Evans middle names)

For a girl either Haley Marie or Bella Marie. Haley comes from a girl Trent liked at some point of his life ( we both really like the name though, it isn’t because of the person) and I think everyone knows where Bella comes from… and Marie is my Mom’s middle name.