Utah Jazz families grow during the summer


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SALT LAKE CITY — Sure, in terms of basketball, it's been a pretty slow offseason for the Utah Jazz: 12 of the 15 roster spots figure to be filled by players who were already on the roster by the end of last season.

But for some Jazz players, their summers have brought tremendous life changes off the court. Here's a roundup of the biggest additions to the Jazz famiy roster.

Gordon Hayward becomes a dad

Hayward's wife Robyn gave birth to Bernadette Marie Hayward on June 6, 2015.

[Baby Bernie! #Captionthis](https://instagram.com/p/4FveUVvvLK/) A photo posted by @gdhayward on

Hayward wrote this blog post on his personal site talking about the birth and his experience with being a father. In the post, Hayward explains the name choice:

If we'd had a boy, it was going to be Gordon. (I'm actually the fourth Gordon, and it's a matter of carrying on a family legacy.) So Robyn got to choose the girl's name. Bernadette comes from her grandfather Bernard, and Robyn's confirmation name is Bernadette, so that's pretty neat … the second we knew we were having a girl, I really had no choice in the name. I actually like the name a lot, and contrary to popular belief, Bernadette did not come from the Big Bang Theory character.

Don't worry, though, Hayward still gets to game, though maybe not quite as often:

Derrick Favors becomes a dad... times 2

Derrick's longtime girlfriend and partner-in-charity Shivolli DaSilva gave birth to twin girls this August.

[Daddy's GT Babies.. #DaddysLittleGirl #TwinGirls #SisterLove 👶🏽👶🏽 @shiv0lli23](https://instagram.com/p/7L6aiVuIsZ/) A photo posted by Derrick Favors (@dfavors14) on

Favors doesn't have a personal blog like Hayward, so we haven't been able to hear from him much on how his life has changed. But just like Hayward, it looks like Favors is finding creative ways to keep up the gaming:

[(#RepostWhiz app)](https://instagram.com/p/7EiOIvOIl3/) A photo posted by Derrick Favors (@dfavors14) on

Trevor Booker gets married

Jazz power forward Trevor Booker got married to longtime girlfriend April Dixon on Aug. 23 in a ceremony in North Carolina. Here's one of their engagement photos:

The best part about their wedding, though, is that two stories came to light: how Booker proposed and how Trevor and April met. While the full stories are too long to include in their entirety here, see this on how Trevor proposed:

"So I cracked the door to see how bad the smell was and it was a different smell than I expected. It smelled like FINGERNAIL POLISH. So I was like "why does it smell like fingernail polish in here" so I threw open the door and flipped on the light and boy did I get the surprise of my life. He had wrote WILL U MARRY ME? on the mirror with some red fingernail polish (because that was all he could find lol) with the ring sitting on the counter. For a minute, all I did was just stand there and look at what was really in front of me. By the time I realized what was going on, he had walked up the stairs and was standing behind me. I turned around and all I remember saying over and over was "FOR REAL BOOKIE? FOR REAL?" He cracked a smile and I just gave him the biggest hug ever."

Jingles got married too

Joe Ingles, or "Jingles" as he is more properly known, got married to Renae Hallinan, an Australian national team netballer on Aug. 29. They've been traveling on their honeymoon since then, until Joe heads back to Utah for workouts and training camp. They've also been taking photos like this:

[In a weeks time I can call this stud muffin my husband 🙈🙊 @joeingles7](https://instagram.com/p/6t5WF7EmuT/) A photo posted by Renae Ingles (Hallinan) (@renaeingles) on

And I'll take this as absolute confirmation of the "Jingles" nickname:

[Thank-you so much to everyone who helped celebrate our wedding weekend- what a weekend it was!!! So much love for you all xx @joeingles7 Thanks for the new wheels @meginglesmurray! #jingles #ringles](https://instagram.com/p/7AbSrBkmlT/) A photo posted by Renae Ingles (Hallinan) (@renaeingles) on

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