Let me see your war paint!

We went to Alabama for Easter to visit my mom and family.  On Saturday after breakfast we decided to let Persephone do some finger painting!  A little messy, but it was fun.  I even kept the paper plate, because I thought it was sweet how she made art out of it.

Here are some photo's of the fun time...

 

 

 

Vine!

If you have an iPhone you need to download VINE - it's FREE!!

I know most "hot" apps are addictive at first and then the excitement wears off.  But I don't know if I'll ever get tired of this one.  I still love instagram!

Vine allows you to create and post short video clips for a maximum length of 6 seconds.  You can share them on the "vine" to let other users see it, the videos can also be shared via Twitter and Facebook.  You can use #hashtags to have your videos show up in searches (like instagram and Twitter), or you can just post them for yourself.  It's currently only available with IOS, but they're working on making it available to other platforms.

You record the videos using Vine's in-app camera and it only records while you press the screen.  So you can either have a steady streaming 6sec video, or break it up into random recordings.

I'm only following a few people I know and of course some celebrities.  I can't have a social media app and not follow random celebs...I'm addicted. 

Anyway - go follow me if you like, although I'm not sure how you could find me?!  LoL...my name is Amanda Jones.  I have a couple stupid videos, but also some cute ones of Persephone - at least I think they're cute. 

Some users I'm following

RiFF RAFF - a goofy white "rapper" (who sometimes uses explicit content).  I don't know why, but I love him...maybe it's the randomness - you never know what he's going to say/do.

Maci Bookout - Teen Mom alumni

Josh Peck - from that Nickelodeon show Drake & Josh, by the way...he's all grown up and looks NOTHING like he did at the beginning of that show.

Simon Rex - actor from all the Scary Movie spoofs (sometimes uses explicit content)

Fred Durst - lead singer of Limp Bizkit

Paul McCartney - the one and only

Rob Johnston - some guy that makes silly videos and I laugh

Greg Cleveland - random guy who makes funny videos with his friend/co-worker Josh Clark (sometimes uses explicit content). 

Josh Clark - random guy who makes funny videos with his friend/co-worker Greg Cleveland (sometimes uses explicit content)

Just check it out and if you don't like it, don't come crying to me.

And the winner is...

Jessica from KY!

Thank you for reading my blog first and foremost, but also thank you for participating in my first ever "contest". I hope you enjoy Beautiful Disaster as much as I did! I just finished the sequel Walking Disaster and LOVED IT.

Thank you also to Emily and Bonnie for playing too. Man it was so hard to randomly pick a winner out of 3 numbers lol. Maybe I'll do another one soon!!

7 Months!!

So you're 7 months old.  That means that in just 5 short months you'll be one year old. 

 

You've been such a joy to watch. 

Your smile is contagious.

You have the sweetest giggle.

 

We've been doing BLW for a while now and you've been such a trooper in trying foods.  You've tried every thing we've given you to try.  You're still drinking formula about 4 times a day and are getting the hang of having water in between.  You're sitting up on your own now!  It's amazing to watch you learn all of these new skills all on your own.  You've started rocking on your knees, so I'm sure crawling is in your near future.  You aren't saying any words yet, but you do babble often.  You're still sleeping through the night like a champ!  Still no teeth, but you love chewing and gnawing on anything you get your hands on, so I'm sure we'll see something soon.

 

I love you beyond measure and I'm excited to see what all you'll get into this next month!

 

 

On our way back from Mimi's

 Trying banana and mango

All smiles

Are you freaking kidding me?  This kid and her faces...

I love this picture my brother took of her during an afternoon walk

At our cousins wedding, being such a sweet girl!  She didn't make a peep!

 

Standing with assistance!!

Ya oh ya - I love how I blocked myself :)

Watching TV - wonder if it's already frying her brain?

My beauty

BOOK GIVEAWAY!

I would like to do a giveaway!  I don't know how many of you actually follow me on a regular basis....so the odds will probably be in your favor. Since I have read more books in 2013 than I did in my entire middle/high school career, I want to share one of my favorites with one of you lucky readers!  Hopefully someone is excited.

The winner will win a paperback copy of Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire - seriously one of my favorite books EVER.

Rules:

- Comment on this post with your name/email address, the name of your favorite book and a brief description of WHY it's your favorite.  ***For two entries, you can link this post on your blog and your name will be entered twice - but you must mention this with your comment for verification.

- Will ship directly from Amazon.

- Winner will be chosen randomly.

- Winner will be notified via email.  I will allow 24hrs for response with an address to ship the book to or someone else will be selected to win.

- Contest ends Tuesday 4/23/13 at 8:00pm EST

- If no one enters the contest,  you can all go to hell.  Just kidding, I guess you'll just save me some money and miss out on a good read.