The Buckingham Blog

I seem to have take to flowers this week! 

Groynes

Crane

Flowers

 

 

Bridge

 

 

 Life

 

Julie.xx

On Friday before we went to Jenni's wedding we went to a place called Dynamic Earth.  It was a huge science place that explains how plant earth got here, and how volcanoes work and glaciers and other good things like that.  There were wee ride things that you go on to find out some stuff.  I enjoyed it apart from the volcano bit, it was a bit scary!

When we were in the dinosaur bit, we got a nice surprise - Grandpa appeared!  He came the rest of the way round with us and I think he enjoyed it too.

Krystal and I went outside at the end, and Mummy explained to us about the building behind us in this photo being where Scottish leaders all meet up to have big chats about how to run our country.  It's a very funny looking place.  Daddy said it cost a very lot of money too. 

Kory
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P.S.  Photo's Mummy took of the Forth Bridges on the way there and way home...

A couple of recent shots I really like.

it's been a while since I popped some of my photos on, and I need to clear the camera card, so here they are!

Daffodil

Grampian Eye

Aberdeen Harbour

Edinburgh Castle

Today was Krystal's 3rd birthday.  She was up again in the night last night so didn't get up until 8:10am.  She was so excited to see this pile of presents waiting for her. 

I think her face says it all in this photo when she opened her pink iPod.  She might only be turning 3, but she really wasn't needing anything, Kory has one and they both love music.  Getting one of the old style ones like his but in pink wasn't the easiest thing! 

We got all ready and headed to the cinema for 10am (yawn) to see a film about mermaids.  The write up made it sound like a rewrite of "The Little Mermaid" but it wasn't what we expected at all.  It was japanese cartoon.  They enjoyed it though, and I got into it as it went on!

We then headed to Pizza Hut for lunch.  We met a couple of the kids friends there which they loved and the food went down well too! 

We came home for a while after that, to make phonecalls to people who'd been trying to get us all morning and to chill for a bit.  Krystal was a bit huffy and tired, so we scrapped any plans we had for the afternoon and decided just to head to Johnstone Gardens for a walk and then to a playpark. 

Though this ended in disaster when Kory was on one of the wobbly things (you know like a horse on a big coiled spring) and made it go so fast it came back and smacked him in the eye!  

We came home, fed the troops (again!) and sang Happy Birthday and blew out the candles.   The cake was very yummy even if I do say so myself!

When we went upstairs to get ready for bed, Krystal wanted to try on one of her presents from Nana.  She got it last year in China and kept for her birthday.  I think it was meant to be for dressing up, but I love it!  Only not sure when I'd ever put it on her.  Only time I can think is on a holiday in the evening for eating out.  It's so pretty.  She was so funny bowing in it too. 

I think a good day was had by her, she's come so far from this...

Happy Birthday Princess Krystal

Julie.xx

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

Have a collection on the camera card again, so here they are...

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