When my Dad was up last week, he bought me a bunch of flowers. After reading an article on taking shots in low like without a flash, I decided to try it out. Here is the result....
On a site I use for my photos, this one made it to the "spotlight" page very quickly, so I'm rather impressed with it!
Julie.xx
As I said there's been snow here in Aberdeen again, so here's some of my shots this past week....
Sunday - the ice beginning to form on the River Dee
Monday - the ice thickens resembling Antarctica
Tuesday - Old bloke being daft going over to take photos. He turned back, realised it was just too dangerous thankfully before it was too late!
Tuesday - Dad taking photos of the River Dee
Thursday - the snow/ice is melting letting some water go downstream leaving massive icebergs at the sides. They must be 3 or 4 ft high.
And a handful from last week...
This was from our park trip
Yeah yeah it's been a while. I just didn't have much to say, so didn't bother. I can't remember what we've done other than what's in the photos. So here you go!
Trip to Duthie Park
We let Kory have our old camera one day last week, and Krystal got a camera for Christmas from Grandpa & Tricia, so in order to use them, we headed to the Winter Gardens as it was so cold yet we needed out the house. They had great fun taking pics.
A strange plant above a door that looked like a moose!
Krystal's First Bike Ride
Last Sunday was the first day there was nothing on the ground and nothing falling from the sky since Christmas. So James took the kids out on their bikes, Krystal for the first time. From what I gather it was an *interesting* outing ending in tears over cold hands!
Dressing Up
With all the being in the house recently, the kids have taken to dressing up loads. With talk of the upcoming swine flu jabs, the favourite is doctors and nurses where they inject one another!
Burns Supper
Today being Burns Day, I made the kids a burns Supper tonight. James and I are both on a diet so we had something else. Kory wanted to know if it could be Burns Day every week because he loved the haggis!
Other Stuff!
The face krystal pulls when she is angry! it does nothing but make me laugh!!
Photo's I took of the kids for part of a project, but I like them.
Julie.xx
Posted By: Julie 
After the temperature dropping to -8C last night, we got up to find the snow still there. No surprises there then! The surprise came when driving down to Brechin when the car thermometer was at -5.5C. Eeeek! While that's not unusual in Aberdeen, it's normally at night, not just after 10am!
Anyway, we were all frozen by the time we walked from the car to the train. But as usual I made everyone pose for some official blog photos (ha ha!) I even managed to be in one for a change to prove I do actually go on outings.
We found our seats and the journey began. Kory and Krystal were very excited when Santa entered the coach we were in. He seemed to take forever to get from the other end to where we were as well.
He was actually very authentic - naturally fat, and his beard/hair certainly couldn't be pulled off! Must have taken him ages to grow that lot. He might have washed his breakfast off his coat though!
He chatted to the kids for ages too.
His Mrs Clause was very funny. I think he was being specific about which gifts he wanted to give each child, and she was getting annoyed at him. I thought she was going to ram a croquet set up his bum at one point!!
The journey back seemed to take forever, once they had seen Santa, we all just wanted a heat, we couldn't feel our feet at all.
We came home and had some warm soup for lunch. Then Kory was desperate to go outside and have a snowball fight. Of course Krystal wanted to join in and then Coral was in on it too. I know i'll have plenty chances when snow falls on weekdays further into winter, so I stayed inside!
We had an early dinner, then James and Kory took Coral back to the airport. Aside from the sub-zero temperatures, it was a nice weekend, just a shame Chad couldn't join us. Which is the reason for quite this many photos today, so he can see what we did.
Julie.xx
P.S. This morning's sunrise over the snowy rooftops....
It's been a busy time and I can't remember everything we've done. One day last week we got to decorate some gingerbread snowmen with some icing. Krystal did hers all white and I used the blue icing for mine. We were allowed to eat them after dinner and they were very yummy.
I went to the usual boxing and nursery where we are learning lots of Christmas songs for our concert. I've been teaching Krystal the songs too and she really likes them.
We also started opening our advent calendars last week. Krystal had a Princess one and I had a Transformers one that Grandpa got us.
We also have a new wooden one this year that Mummy & Daddy got us. We take turns of opening it. Each door has a little wooden decoration in it which we hang on one of the hooks round the outside.
On Saturday we had tickets to go to the cinema to see Planet 51 - it was Krystal's first time going to the cinema, so we got some sweeties. While we waited to go in we found this board with Alvin and the Chipmunks on it. We love the first film, so can't wait to see the next one.
This is a photo of us in the cinema, it's a bit rubbish, because Mummy didn't want to put the flash on inside the cinema. I had really wanted to see the film, but I didn't like it much, it was a bit scary with the soldiers and the one eyed aliens. Krystal liked it though. She's a girl and that makes her tough!
Then on Sunday we went to Union Square to look in the new Marks & Spencers. It was huge and Mummy loved all the house stuff. We walked past the new cinema in there too and look what we found, big models of the Chipmunks! Lots better than the cardboard ones.
And here are a few of Mummy's photo's that we sometimes stop to get!
On Wednesday, I decided to have "make your own pizza" for dinner. I had shop bought bases for easiness and the kids had great fun decorating them.
Of course there was grated cheese absolutely everywhere - but that was ok, I have 2 keen volunteers where brushes are involved!
Today, we went to Katy's in the morning and Krystal played with Matthew. This afternoon Leanne came round with Jess and Sophie. We decided to make some Christmas paper chains. The kids had fun doing them, so we'll put them up somewhere this weekend.
Kory's nursery have a "only 1 Christmas card" policy - they think it's a waste of paper and time giving cards to all, and they ask that each child makes one card at home and takes it in. They then use them to decorate the nursery.
I decided tonight to do a trial run to see if the idea would work before letting Kory loose on it! This is the result and Kory can't wait to get going on it tomorrow!
Julie.xx
P.S. Here is today's scenic photo! Looks like sunrise, but it was about 9:30am!
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