YouTube

My husband helped me put together a video for my online class over the weekend and it came out pretty good.  We think it is so cute that maybe we will start creating some more videos because they are great to share with family and it allows us to take all the videos we have of her and just pick those perfect priceless moments out of each video.  Then we put all the awesome pieces together and we have a great video!!

It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be either.  The most time consuming thing was going through each video and picking the time periods to include in the YouTube video.  Then we just had to upload each piece into the editing software, add some music, mess around with volumes, fading, etc.  It was actually kind of fun.

And this is the final result:

Word Crush

My husband created this awesome game called Word Crush for Android and he recently released it on the Android Market.  It can be found here:

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.mlove.wordcrush&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5tbG92ZS53b3JkY3J1c2giXQ

It is a game that I played a lot when he was developing it.  I helped find bugs and give advice on ways to improve the usability and make the game better.  Creating it was something my husband really enjoyed and I had a great time making myself feel useful by playing the game nonstop because I was "helping."  But really, I just love the game and would play it anyways!

It's a free game that anyone with an Android device can download and it is lots of fun.  You basically play with words by using 6 letters to create word combinations.  You get more points when you use more letters.  So you can create 3 letter word, 4 letter words, 5 letter words, and 6 letter words.  Of course, if you always manage to find the 6 letter words in every game then you are either amazing or you are cheating!  Because that part is not easy.  But it is so much fun to try and get them all before the clock runs out!


He also came up with different backgrounds that would be available during the game.  You could choose beach, city, or lake.  You could customize the buttons a bit, by deciding where you want the clear button and whether you want it to clear one letter or the whole word.  You can also choose the type of game you want.  Some people like to be scored and race against the clock.  But sometimes if you want a more relaxed game, then you can just keep trying to find words until you fill in the whole board.  The game will time you, but you do not have to try and finish in just 3 minutes.  You can take all the time you need.


I highly recommend the game if you love playing with words.  I used to play Word Whomp occasionally on Pogo and this is similar. So if you like that, then you will like this too.

Give it a try!  Maybe you will love it as much as I do!!

Thank You Cards...and Life

Oh thank you cards.  I know that you are necessary, but that does not mean I have to like you. 

I feel like I am going a bit crazy during the end of the semester, leading into Christmas, time.  Reading, writing, doing thank you cards, entertaining Kaylee every minute she is awake, shopping for Christmas gifts, hoping the gifts will be delivered on time, cooking, cleaning, decorating (which I have not done), getting a tree (which we hope will be delivered on time), watching Doctor Who (very important!), etc. 

Not to mention the fact that I have to do a video for my online class this week.  Everyone agrees that the class is not going well.  But none of us can do anything about it.  Unfortunate, but such is life.

Christmas

I've been thinking about Christmas gifts today.  And I can never think of what to tell people when they ask what I want.  And now I have to tell people what to get for Kaylee.  Once I've covered the basics of what she needs, which go to the grandparents, then I am not sure what to tell people.  What do you give a 9 month old for Christmas?  She has tons of toys.  And people never really want to get clothes.  At least, they never only want to get clothes.

And do I bother with a giant tree?  I mean, I realize that it is her first Christmas.  So I definitely want to get a tree.  But I don't think it's necessary to go all crazy when she is not even going to realize what is going on.  Next year, she will be old enough to really take everything in.  So I want to make it special and really go all out.  I think I will stick to basic decorations and a tree that is not over the top.

First Christmas in the new house!  Exciting!

Going to class until December 22nd?  Not exciting at all...

Mom's Birthday

Today is my mother's 65th birthday.  She would probably kill me for admitting her age.  But I do it for a reason.  I am 23 years old.  Do the math.

My mother was in her early 40's when I came along.  A little surprise to keep the family on their feet.  That having been said, my mother is amazing.  Somehow she kept up with me, gave me what I needed, and took care of me.  I'm sure that at that age, the last thing she wanted was to care for a screaming infant.  But she did it.  And she always said that I kept her young.

Now that I have my own little girl, I think she might have been telling a little white lie.  Maybe when I got a bit older and wasn't as much work.  But when I was little, I don't know how she did it at that age.  Like I said, she is amazing.  I hope she knows that, but maybe she doesn't think of it that way.  And that is why I am putting it out there.

We fight, argue, yell....well I fight, argue, and yell.  She just shakes her head and keeps her lips locked as much as she can.  Even when she knows that she is right and I am wrong.  She lets me learn that myself.  And then waits for my apology, which I inevitably make.  Once my wounded pride at being wrong will allow me to apologize that is.  She waits patiently and never gets mad at me, no matter how mad I get and how much I yell.

My point here is that I love my Mommy.  And the older I get, the more I realize how important it is to say it.  So Happy Birthday Mommy!!  You are an amazing woman and I love you with all my heart.  Thank you for everything!

Holidays

This week is going to be crazy, but so much fun.  Mike and I decided to have Thanksgiving at our new house.  So we are going to have his family, my parents, and my best friend.  So many people.  So much food.  It's going to be a great time.  We are all really looking forward to it.

It is so hard to balance holidays when you are married.  And it gets even harder when you have a baby.  Everyone wants to see her at Christmas, but you have no choice but to disappoint someone.  Each person wants to be with his/her family because that is the tradition.  What to do?  It's pretty much an impossible situation.  My family has a little family party just after Christmas.  So I guess that's close enough to Christmas.  It's still sad not to be with my family for the actual holiday.  But I suppose I'll get used to it doing it every year.

I would like to hope that things will get easier as Kaylee gets older, but I doubt it.  When she gets older, we'll just have to worry about making the long trip with two children instead of one.  That is not going to be fun.  I thought when you had kids, people were supposed to come to you, instead of you coming to them!  Haha  If only that was true! 

Websites

In the last couple of days, I have realized that creating an awesome website is almost impossible unless you have expertise in that area.  Google sites lets you do some things, but not others.  Other generic website creating software has limits too.  Basically, I have been doing everything possible to figure this out and have gotten nowhere.  I want to put some photo albums in and a calendar.  Which you can do on Google sites....but you can't change the formatting...like putting text next to the picture as opposed to under it...

Anyways, I don't know what I am going to do at this point.  But I know that eventually I will figure it out.  It may not be the best website, but I will definitely get it done.  Fun, fun, fun.