The big name reveal/David's birthday!

Both families met at Campisi's on Thursday to finally reveal the name and celebrate David's birthday! David had a great idea to make a game out of it, and he emailed it to both families on Wednesday. I think all 4 parents were driven absolutely nuts in their efforts to figure it out. At one point on Wednesday night, I talked to Cindy and she was randomly researching Kirby Puckett's father's name (What?!?!). Ryan told me that my parent's were acting as if a million dollars was at stake as they yelled back and forth on separate computers! My dad added up all of the roman numerals in question #10 (the answer was simply roman), to equate to 1066, which was the Battle of Hastings, whose winner was William. (Really, people?!?!)

 

The answers of 1 through 18 are in the word box. There are 3 additional clues at the bottom that read:

1) It is the 1st thing you see

2) Trace ancestry from; be passed or handed down

3) The answer is found in 1-18

With all of that nonsense, all parties came to Campisi's with wrong answers. The Elson's were set on Nathan with a middle name of either Allen or Arnold. The Biagini's pulled out 4 flashcards with various combinations of names including Nathan Arnold, Nathan David, Anthony Arnold, and Roman Anthony. 

We told them that they all overanalyzed it and that the answer was simply stated in the clues. If they could just figure out the definition of clue #2, it would all make sense! After 5-10 minutes of continuing to be mislead, they realized that word was "descending."

David kept repeating... the first thing that you see... descending... in 1 to 18... and they just weren't getting it. About that time, our waiter came over, and we asked him. Within 10 seconds, he read the first letter of each name down the list and got it. Too funny.

David then opened his presents, and look what his parents got him...

 

                                                           



 

We were SOOO surprised! Not only did they figure out the name, but they had remaining time to get an embroidered jersey! It was a very fun night and we were so happy to announce our little boy's name...

NICHOLAS "NICO" ARNOLD BIAGINI!