Sunday 18th May was a busy day for us as we were invited to two christenings! The first christening was Jordan's best friend Hallie's little sister, Evie. Evie was born the day after Annie Joy! (Actually Annie Joy was born on Hallie's birthday!). The service was held at Our Lady & St Nicholas church in the centre of Liverpool. St Nicholas is the oldest church in Liverpool with the original church dating from the 1200s (
click here if you'd like to know more about the history!)
The font was a gorgeous ceramic bowl with a pearly shell water scoop. The vicar left the water in the font after the service for people to use to renew their baptism/confirmation vows. Luke loved that idea! Although we haven't christened our children they have been dedicated to God & it was great to talk to the boys about what that meant. After we'd talked about it, Luke really enjoyed 'baptising' himself with the water! ;0)
As soon as Evie's christening had finished we dashed back to the car & drove over to Warrington for Julie & Alan's daughter Jessica Rose's christening. Julie is a colleague of Lee's so it was great to spend the day with them & their family. The service was held at St Elphin's church. It has the tallest spire I have ever seen on a church (it's the 3rd tallest in Britain!
Click here for more of its history). In fact, we saw the spire in the distance as soon as we came off the motorway &, as we sailed past it following dodgy directions (from a nameless source!) I said jokingly, 'Look! There it is!' Twenty five minutes later, after a brief tour of the roundabouts of Warrington, we arrived at the church only to discover the service had only lasted twenty minutes & we'd missed it!!!
I made sure that I got a photo of the lovely Parry family before we piled back into the car to go to the 'do' afterwards though! (What do you call a christening meal? Anyone know?)
We had a lovely afternoon at the hotel. The food was delicious & it was great to chat with Julie, Alan & their family. The boys thoroughly enjoyed themselves especially receiving the bags of goodies that Julie so generously gave them! Thankyou!
Even Annie got one with a little rubber duck & board book in it!
Annie enjoyed sitting on the floor playing with the balloons & as the saying goes, was as happy as Larry!
Timmy & Jordan also enjoyed playing with the balloons. Jordan got a big yellow punch balloon which he absolutely loved! (He cried when it burst later on in the week which is something he has never done before when a balloon pops!)
The christening cake was beautiful. the boys loved all the pink feet on it!
Julie cut huge pieces of the sponge cake for the boys to take home & eat for their tea. Lee brought some of the fruit cake home later on in the week too which was also delicious! It was a real privilege to share in Evie & Jessica's special day. (Sorry we missed the actual service for Jessica though!). We were very proud of our boys & how well they behaved too. It was such a lovely day!
Sunday 18th May was a busy day for us as we were invited to two christenings! The first christening was Jordan's best friend Hallie's little sister, Evie. Evie was born the day after Annie Joy! (Actually Annie Joy was born on Hallie's birthday!). The service was held at Our Lady & St Nicholas church in the centre of Liverpool. St Nicholas is the oldest church in Liverpool with the original church dating from the 1200s (click here if you'd like to know more about the history!)
The font was a gorgeous ceramic bowl with a pearly shell water scoop. The vicar left the water in the font after the service for people to use to renew their baptism/confirmation vows. Luke loved that idea! Although we haven't christened our children they have been dedicated to God & it was great to talk to the boys about what that meant. After we'd talked about it, Luke really enjoyed 'baptising' himself with the water! ;0)
As soon as Evie's christening had finished we dashed back to the car & drove over to Warrington for Julie & Alan's daughter Jessica Rose's christening. Julie is a colleague of Lee's so it was great to spend the day with them & their family. The service was held at St Elphin's church. It has the tallest spire I have ever seen on a church (it's the 3rd tallest in Britain! Click here for more of its history). In fact, we saw the spire in the distance as soon as we came off the motorway &, as we sailed past it following dodgy directions (from a nameless source!) I said jokingly, 'Look! There it is!' Twenty five minutes later, after a brief tour of the roundabouts of Warrington, we arrived at the church only to discover the service had only lasted twenty minutes & we'd missed it!!!
I made sure that I got a photo of the lovely Parry family before we piled back into the car to go to the 'do' afterwards though! (What do you call a christening meal? Anyone know?)
We had a lovely afternoon at the hotel. The food was delicious & it was great to chat with Julie, Alan & their family. The boys thoroughly enjoyed themselves especially receiving the bags of goodies that Julie so generously gave them! Thankyou!
Even Annie got one with a little rubber duck & board book in it!
Annie enjoyed sitting on the floor playing with the balloons & as the saying goes, was as happy as Larry!
Timmy & Jordan also enjoyed playing with the balloons. Jordan got a big yellow punch balloon which he absolutely loved! (He cried when it burst later on in the week which is something he has never done before when a balloon pops!)
The christening cake was beautiful. the boys loved all the pink feet on it!
Julie cut huge pieces of the sponge cake for the boys to take home & eat for their tea. Lee brought some of the fruit cake home later on in the week too which was also delicious! It was a real privilege to share in Evie & Jessica's special day. (Sorry we missed the actual service for Jessica though!). We were very proud of our boys & how well they behaved too. It was such a lovely day!
6 comments:
What a beautiful church! I love all of your photos. That cakes is absolutely gorgeous!
Aww, great photos! Your kids are so adorable! I love that photo you have as your header for your blog :-) BTW, too funny about the cookies from maryland!
that cake is gorgeous! i'm anxious to find a cake for Maica's christening next month but i've not seen one anywhere that might make them here :S
xx
Encore!No 2 comment! It was lovely to see the two celebrations.We pray God will bless the babes and their families greatly. Do hope they'll all be able to go to Annie's dedication. The boys look good in their shirts and Annie always looks very 'all together!'
Fashions in cakes are very 'ornate' at the moment eh? Reminds me of 1980s wedding dresses!
Love Mum xx
The church is beautiful! And the cake? OMG goodness! Stunning!
Wow what a cake!! What a shame about missing the second service tho eh? Looked like you still all enjoyed the day tho. And Annie does look as happy as Larry! (whoever he was!!) Is she always smiling!!!!??? xxx
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