Monday, April 20, 2009

.Hello World.

Hello world. I am Silas Jackson Andrus. I was born on April 18, 2009 at 8:42 AM. I weighed 6 lbs 14 oz and was 19 inches long.

What a cute name, you say!? Well, thank you. Would you like to know more about it? Ok, here we go.

Silas? Pronounced, Si-Lus. Where did my parents come up with that name? Well, my mom was looking through names and ran across this and after doing some research to see where it originated from decided this was a perfect, strong name for me! Silas is a biblical character who was thrown in jail with Peter in the book of Acts for preaching the word of God. Shortly after being in jail an earthquake shook the land and the jail crumbled to the ground. To the guards surprise neither man ran with the rest of the inmates and so the guard asked what he had to do to be saved and the two men simply told him to believe in God. The guard then the prisoners to his own house where he gave them clean clothes to wear and cleaned up their wounds from being beat and thrown into the jail. Paul and Silas were very brave men and so that is how I came to be named Silas. And my middle name, Jackson, is in honor of my Great-Great-Uncle Jack Scanlan who was recently awarded the POW Medal from WWII. Mom was not a big fan of the name "Jack" so she proposed the name "Jackson" and that was that.

Below is a video that my daddy made! Check it out and keep checkin back for posts about...me :)

2 comments:

Kaitlyn Alley said...

This is the cutest blog and video EVER. That was very sweet of him to make that and you guys did a great job. Silas is so handsome!!!! :)

ALC Wedding Photography said...

oh my gosh how proud is he to be a daddy and your man!!! i just LOVED this video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO CUTE!