Jen laboured hard for 29 hours and although extremely tiring and frustrating at times it was all worth the effort when he arrived safely with us.

More to follow…

We’ve been away to the Alveston Manor in Stratford-Upon-Avon courtesy of Mum and Dad for the weekend.

On Friday we sampled the delights of the area on a break-neck open top bus tour. I’m not the most cultured person in the world so I don’t really get the whole Shakespeare thing but there are lots of nice houses that I noticed!

On Saturday we wandered the streets of Stratford and they felt a little different to your usual British city centre. Then in the afternoon we enjoyed a couple of hours looking at cars that Dad may or may not purchase in 3 years time!

Last night we enjoyed an excellent meal at La Bistro Pierre and I had the most excellent chicken I have ever eaten. Half a chicken as well! Mmm mmm…

Then this morning you would have seen us making our way down the river enjoying the morning sunshine.

All in all, a very enjoyable birthday weekend!

We can’t wait to have our own children to shoot on a sunny Saturday afternoon!

Here are some scans of our little baby! Everything is going ok so far and we are 13 weeks. The due date is 3rd November 2009.

UPDATE: There are now more scan photos of our little BOY in the Photo Albums section of our site.

Well last year I thought I was old! This year I look old and feel old! I still don’t have (m)any gray hairs but the eyes are telling a story. This years attempt to regain my youth comes from Jen in the form of a Nintendo Wii! I’ve been naughty and had it early though which we have enjoyed the last few weeks.

Thank you all for your gifts and to those of you who I know have cards and gifts waiting for me. It’s been a really nice day at work where people are genuinely nice about it being my birthday. Jen and I will go out this evening and do something depending on the weather. Not sure what I fancy yet though. Of course, that all depends on if there are any Wii games in any of these boxes!

I have to say that so far I have really enjoyed my day. Birthdays come around and go by some years and they are just another day, so thank you to all those people who have helped me to enjoy it.

We’ve been working on the garden the last few weeks as to be honest it was left in a bit of a mess by Persimmon our builders. There are some pictures available which show the work from start to finish. A big thanks to Mum, Dad and Jonathan for all the help. They never just visit!

We haven’t seen Mar and Magnus for quite some time so it was really nice when they visited us twice over Easter. We didn’t get any of Magnus’s fried fish but a trip to Beales was almost as good!

This year was our first Christmas in the new house and was an opportunity to have the family over and do the cooking! Dan was away but we had David, Eira, Gran Dodge, Shar, Ben and Emily. We cooked roast beef (which took hours) and there was nearly half left at the end!

It was also Emily’s 4th birthday and we had cake to spare as she rolled around on her new roller skates!

David and Eira almost didn’t make it as they locked the house keys inside by mistake. David says it was Shar but we all know the real truth! Any way, David managed to break in in an all to easy way for my liking. There are always rumours about his previous life going round, perhaps there is more to him than meets the eye.

We then went up north to Mum and Dad’s where we saw Mum, Dad, Jon, Nan, Grandad, John, Sian, David, Linda, Gav, Charlotte, Matthew and baby Seren. We didn’t know at the time but Charlotte was plus one!

It was really nice to see everyone again. Happy new year to all!

It’s unusual for us this summer to have seen more or less all of the immediate family. With the exception of those up in Scotland that is. This last weekend we saw my side of the family including my Grandparents which was really nice. I was glad they were able to visit us as they don’t get chance to come down very often. Hopefully we’ll get to visit everybody else soon as well as we don’t really meet up enough and I enjoy it a lot now I live away from them.

Any way, at the risk of making my Mother cry I’ll stop there…

We also were able to feed them from the garden which was cool. Most of my family aren’t really that bothered by it to be honest but Dad enjoyed it!