Archive for the 'Family' Category

As you will no doubt know from my previous post - Our Wedding: The Big Day - Claire and I got married at The New Mill restaurant and you may be wondering “Why get married at a restaurant?”.
Well, I hope to explain our reasons here.
First off, neither of us is particularly religious, so a church [...]

Claire and I have now been married for 11 days, and whilst we don’t have our official photos yet, I thought I’d detail our big day for those that couldn’t attend.
This is actually the first of a series of posts that I’ll post over the next few days as there’s so much to write about [...]

This is just a quick post to let all those that couldn’t attend out wedding know all went brilliantly well. Everything fell into place and we had a fantastic day with no problems at all.
For those who did attend: thank-you very much for joining us and for your generosity. If you’ve got [...]

This time next week, Claire and I would have been happily married for a whole 2 ½ hours (assuming things finish at 14:30 on the dot). I can say pretty much everything is in place now. We’ve got a couple of things to finish off, like place cards and the music, but nothing [...]

We had a special guest come to visit us for Claire’s birthday, just short of two weeks ago…

As can be expected, I was a little trigger happy and ended up taking a lot of photos. Check ‘em out in my gallery, oh and get ready for lots of “ooooo’s” and “aaaaah’s” - she’s very [...]

I’m happy to announce, exactly one year after I proposed to Claire, we have decided on a venue and set a date to get married.
We’ll be getting married on 4 July 2008 at a gorgeous little venue in Hampshire. I don’t want to give away too many details as it’ll spoil the surprise for everyone [...]

If you’ve followed the comments in the “Happy Zeroth Birthday Elizabeth Claire Brooks” post, you’ll know we have 2 family birthdays today.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STEPHEN
Take it easy you two, have lots of tea breaks, sneak out 10 mins early and generally have a great day.

I finally got the chance to meet my future niece (in-law?) on the weekend and she’s gorgeous. She’s also ever so teeny weeny - yes I’m aware babies only come in small sizes, but I don’t remember Emma and Sarah being this small when they were born. Come to think of it, I [...]