Check it out!

For those of you who don't know. I have been working on an children's book application since August. The book is a story my dad used to tell us when we were kids. "The Shortest Cactus Springs Tale Ever", In the app my dad actually reads the book, and he and my brother do all of the wicked sick awesome sound effects.
The great news is that it is finally finished! It should be available for purchase in the apple app store in about a month. For now however you can check out a little bit about the company I did it with here. If you go through all of the authors you will find the lovely me explaining how much I loved working with the Tale Spring web tool. It is pretty awesome. I mean, hello I graduated with a degree in Home and Family studies but I made an I-pad book?!? ummm yeah. Lets just say that the program had to have been easy to use or it would never have happened.

The reason though that this book is so good happens to be the illustrator. Amy, she is in one understated word, Talented! Seriously, her work is beautiful. The colors and techniques she uses bring the character to life. I was so lucky to work with her on this project!

Another reason that this book happened is my sister in law Judy. She helped me so many times. I think that I called about forty time in one week, she never even hung up on me. So nice!! (just teasing, Judy would never hang up on anyone.)Anyways, Judy has mad sikllz with photoshop of which she graciously imparted onto me. Which in turn helped to create the outstanding finished product despite the fact that sometimes I cant follow directions and have to always do things the hard way.

Alrightly then, this seems to have turned into some Grammy award speech where I thank everyone for all their help. Guess I might as well through in a shout out to ya'll. Thanks for reading.

Heeyyy!

k, thanks, I'm done now.

(just a note, you can also see a page of the book here. It is the one with the jack rabbit climbing a mountain.)

Oh, and thanks mom. Luv ya! (me waving)

Ok really guys, I'm done.

More

Here are some more pictures I found from Ella's birthday. Judy took them so they are, of course, superb!
I think I should go make some more of these cupcakes. Delicious!

Happy Valentines Day!

It's been a pretty good day!

Birthday Photos

I never posted anything from her actual b-day party. So here is your slice of the fun!