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Turkey Holiday

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:50:00 -0400

We've been on our holidays and it was amazing. It was only for a week, but it was hot, relaxing and we were totally pampered in the hotel. The hotel we ended up in by accident after our flight was cancelled and we had to change airports and hotel. But boy was it a good change!

We went on the 6th and got home on 13th (after an 8 hour delay - which was awful!) and we're only now getting back to reality. There isn't really a whole lot to tell, we sat by the pool, we ate lots in the all inclusive restaurants, we drank. The kids went to mini-club by day and mini-disco by night and thouroughly enjoyed it. Kory got zig-zags cut into his hair and I had a manicure. Kory even cried when we left.

So I'll let the many many photos do the talking...Enjoy!

Wednesday - Day 1

Thursday - Day 2

Friday - Day 3

Saturday - Day 4

Sunday - Day 5

Monday - Day 6

Tuesday - Day 7

Sleepy kids in the airport and the broken plane!

Can't wait for our next holiday! (Bet you lot can though after that lot of photos!)

Julie.xx

Happy 5th Birthday

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:23:00 -0400

I started the blog 5 years ago today. I didn't ever imagine I'd still be doing it now. But I find the concept hard to stop. It's Kory & Krystal's whole lives from before they were even born.

Julie.xx

Happy 4th Birthday!

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:40:00 -0400

Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Blog
Happy Birthday to you!!

I honestly can't believe I've been doing this for 4 years now!

Julie.xx

We are not alone!!!

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:36:00 -0400

Well I'm not that's for sure!!

While surfing about yesterday lunchtime I decided to do the typical" type your name into Google and see what you get" search. In the top ten came this website www.jamesbuckingham.com - Yes it's a blog by a guy called James Buckingham in Wales.

So anyway while I was there I though I'd put a wee comment on one of the entries to say "Hello James, it's James Happy New Year" :-)

Now you might be thinking, yeah that's cool but so what? Well have a look at the design of the site as well?? It's the same as ours. How spooky is that??? It's not even that common.

Checking my emails tonight I got a message from James (that's the other one) who has put a comment on one of our entries here. He's also put an entry on his blog about all of this as well. How cool :-)

I now feel drawn to hitting the old search engines again to find more James Buckingham's around the world, as James says (not me the other one :-)) it feels very Dave Gorman. Maybe there are even more James Buckingham's reading this blog? Who knows!!!

James "thebuckinghamfamily.co.uk" Buckingham

Blog problems

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:51:00 -0400

Some of you might have noticed recently that the blog has been going online/offline like a yo-yo over the past few weeks. We've also been having problems in the admin area as well. Hence the lack of entry recently.

I've spent the past week bouncing emails back and forth to the new hosting company that we're using about the problems and without going into any great detail it looks like the server wasn't coping with the demand being put on it!

Anyway just last night we were moved to a new server so hopefully things should start settling down a bit now. Fingers crossed anyway but if anybody does happen to see problems with the site can you drop me an email and let me know? My address is Clakee21 <at> hotmail <dot> com.

James

Happy 3rd Birthday Blog!!!

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:19:00 -0400

We've been writting the blog now for three years. Can you believe it?!? Well I say we, it's mostly Julie's hard work which has kept it going for all this time actually .

Was just looking back at some of the old posts from when we first started posting. It's amazing how much of our lives are actually stored in these pages. In fact you can pretty much find information on every day of Kory and Krystal's lives from the very minute they were born.

Well here is to another year of blogging all the adventures and going on's of the Buckingham family.

James

New Wishlist

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:06:00 -0400

Finally got round to doing myself a wishlist, just in time for Xmas as well . You can find it in the Wishlist section at the side or right here

James

So why a new blog?

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:00:00 -0400

Ok so I've been told by Julie that I don't do enough blogging and I should get my finger out and help her a bit more.

So I'm currently on my lunch at work thinking "What the hell can I blog about?" Julie, Kory and Krystal have always been better at telling you all about our day-to-day news and to be honest who wants to know what I get up to during the day? It's too geeky/boring (delete where appropriate) for this blog.

So what I thought I'd try and do is give a bit more off-topic news and stuff. At least that way we give it a bit of variety.I don't know where this is going to lead but what the hell I'll give it a shot

So where better to start than the new blog and some of the new features?!?!

You might, or might not, have noticed a few changes. I've got more in the pipeline but here's a quick rundown of some of the less obvious ones and what they're for:

Archive by Subject: You can now look up posts by category. So if you're looking for all the news from Julie it's in the "Julie" section, if you want to watch the videos we've posted in the past then they're in the "Video" section.

Subscribe: Some of you have spotted this already but for the lazy people out there you can now subscribe to our blog using the little "Subscribe" option at the side or by ticking the option when you add a comment. This means that when we publish something new then you'll get a copy of the entry in your Inbox straight away. It doesn't look as nice as it does on the Blog but it saves you coming back to check constantly.

(small print: no email address is sold to third ~~company parties~~ party companies or spotty teenage spammers to try and sell you cheap viagra. That is unless this blog becomes a world wide hit in which case I'll need the cash to feed my new expensive habits!!!)

Moveable Menus: A bit of a story here . Julie wanted the menus in one order and I wanted mine in another. So to make everyone happy I've made the menus moveable. Not only that it will remember the order you select for the next time you visit the site. Cool eh?!?! Well I thought so!!!. Just grab the bar at the top of each panel and move them around. You can also open and close them with the little coloured icons in the corner.

Tags: Julie didn't see the point in this one but I think it's cool. You'll see there is a section called Tags. This is a list of the most popular subjects on the site. The blog will change these and increase / decrease the size of the text depending on how many entries go into that category. Practical? I don't know but I thought it look nice on the screen

Right enough from me, my lunch is getting cold
James

James' Secret Project!

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:40:00 -0400

Hello & welcome to our new blog - woohoo!

James has spent ages working on this until it was to my satisfaction (as much the bit I write blogs in as the look of it and getting all the old blogs over here!) He's very excited about it - so please humour/congratulate him!!

As you can probably already tell, I can now easily make text look different, where before it took me a lot of messing about and writing HTML code by hand, so mostly I didn't bother.

Hopefully now I don't get so annoyed doing blogs! Remember to bookmark this new address and keep coming back!!

Julie.xx

Anybody out there?

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:28:00 -0400

Just wondering if anyone is out there reading this or am I randomly chattering away to myself? Jill, I know you are there...ever faithful! And Laura I saw pop up this week too. Dad? Chad? Anyone?

Julie.xx

Happy 2nd Birthday Blog!!

Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:39:00 -0400

Two years ago today this blog started, and one year ago we said Happy 1st Birthday, so it seems right to do so again!!

The first post is here and last years is here. Blimey hasn't a lot happened again this year, I didn't think for one minute I'd be sitting in a new house posting this one!

Julie.xx

Happy Birthday Blog!!

Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:08:00 -0400

As the title suggests, we're wishing the blog a Happy Birthday!! It was one year ago today that the first article was posted (read here).

I can't believe all that's happened in the past year, busy time! But not going to do an awards ceremony speech, as you have read it all here!!

Here's to another year, and posts becoming less frequent!!

Julie, James & Kory.xx

No Comments

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 23:40:00 -0400

I know folk read this blog, but no-one ever leaves comments. All other blogs you go on have comments!! I know (coz my techy hubby has web stats!) that folk read it, and I get complaints if I don't do it, but some feedback would be nice! I feel like I'm wasting my time!!

Will post some more pics and tell you what we've been doing tomorrow!

Julie.xx

First Post

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 22:36:00 -0400

Well it's taken me a few years to get round to doing this but I've finally set up our first website.

Over the years I've come up with design after design for our 'perfect' site but at the end of the day the only thing I've really only been good at (and enjoyed) is developing them. So I've decided to get someone else to make it look nice for me. Thanks Google!!!

I'm hoping that this site will evolve over time but the main aim is really to provide our family, friends and the rest of the online community (if you're listening) with our latest news and gossip.

Things are extremely busy for us just now. Julie, is pregnant and due in March and with Christmas just seven weeks away now the pressure is on to get the nursery sorted and all the christmas presents bought and sent away.

Anyway, I have loads of news I could post but it only makes sense to put it online a bit at a time. After all, you need to keep people coming back ;)

Let us know what you think about the site, give us your comments on our news and, for any family and friends out there, let us know what you're up to. You never know we might post it :)

James & Julie