Seren Haf

So the third Jones/Wilson baby was born on Monday July 21st 2008 at 9:32pm. She weighed 8lbs 12 and 1/2oz and has baout an inch and a half long hair! There is absolutely no mistaking who her father or her brother and sister are!

Lowri has been funny as she's attempted to comprehend how Seren has gone from being in Amanda's tummy to suddenly being in the Moses basket! But she's getting there!! Osian on the other hand takes it all in his stride.......you can almost see the "I've been through this once already" going through his mind as he gets on with playing and generally being a boy. He is very affectionate with me at the moment and constantly tells me that he loves me........a very very cute boy. Lowri is just beautiful and such a proud big sister.......she loves to take you over to where Seren is to intorduce her to you or to sit on the couch with her on her knee!

Anyway here are some pics......I'll take more soon!

How much like their Dad do the of them look!!

And more.......

And then there was the great blessing of being able to see people that I hadn't seen for so long, 7 years some people! It was great to catch up!!

Amy and I - apparently someone from Liverpool Hope University where I studied wanted a copy of this to strengthen the advertisement of relations between Hope Liverpool and Hope Holland, MI.........Amy and I had many a giggle over that!!

I love this Picture!! First it's Becky from the Isle of Man whom I travel with, the Becky who I know from Hope with her son Emmanuel whom I got to meet for the first time (he's so precious!), then it's Ana from Mexico who I hadn't seenin 7 years!, behind her is Kendra, a dear dear friend how has been with me through good times and bad, then me and then Ramona from Romania who I saw last summer and hopefully her and her hsband are moving to France in the autumn/fall so they'll be a little closer!! Such a good time ladies! You're all such a blessings!!!

I also got to meet up with Mariana (from Mexico) on the left and Cherry (originally from Hong Kong, now married to an American and living in Detroit) a few days before the wedding. I hadn't seen these lovely ladies in 7 years and we just picked up where we left off, it was great!

Melanie- who went to bible school with Amy and we've become good friends. I only met her for the first time 4 days before the wedding, but know that we're going to be firm friends. I look forward to much more laughter and giggles in the future!

OK, my first memory of these 2 is when they were 8 years old and I couldn't tell the difference between them!! They're now going to be 17 in December and are about a foot taller than me as this photo shows!! I am now "shortie" according to them and Zack loves to call me this name!! Thanks for keeping me humble guys!!

Otis-DeGrau wedding

So I said I'd post about the wedding and here it is.......now keep in mind that come this Friday I'll have been to 6 weddings in 16 months!! All a bit mad but know that I'm at that stage in life. I think being involved in this one and knowing that Amy and Rodrigo's faith is central to their lives made such a massive difference to the other weddings I'd been too. They probably spent the least out of all of them, but I had the most fun as I was involved in the set up, there were games during the party and a photo booth that you could get involved with and it was just all such an awesome blessing. It was held at Elme Point in East Jordan and we were praying for good weather all the way up to the wedding day as we'd encountered rain, wind and lightning storms!! I was blessed to see old friends, re-meet old friends and make new friends.........it truly was such a blessing in my life!

Well, I'll let the photos speak for themselves!! They don't do the day justice but I have many good memories so that's awesome!

Amy and her ladies; Yvonne from Germany, me from Wales, Pam from Mexico, Amy from the US and Bonita from Canada

Rodrigo and his men, Zak, Noe, Andrew, Matt and Aaron

Picture time was before the wedding, which was so much better as it meant we weren't hanging around for 2 hours after the ceremony while the pictures were being taken

There was also a cute bridge not far from the park that photos were also taken on, I can't wait to see the professional ones of these

It was such a special ceremony as you knew the commitment they were making to one another and to God was heartfelt and true