Best Photography Apps!

I love to take pictures everywhere I go but sometimes, like in the Texas heat, I just don't feel like lugging around my big ole' camera bag along with me. That's when my camera phone comes in handy. Thank God in this day and age the camera phones are actually pretty good at

taking snap shots. It puts a whole new spin on "Instant" photography.

I simply love the perfectly "imperfect" quality the camera phone brings to the digital world.

I think it gives the photos character and uniqueness, as well as a nice vintage style to it.

As the digital photography world is expanding to whole new levels, I'm always on the lookout for cool new photography apps on the android market. Of course Instagram is the most popular, and by far the best for sharing photos, here are my two favorite apps I use to edit my mobile photos and post them on Instagram.

I hope you feel free to try them out for yourself.

Happy snapping guys :)

1. SnapBucket.

Remember Photobucket from the Myspace days? Well it has changed quite a bit recently.They have gotten away from the immature audience of myspacers, and started focusing a little bit more on the artsy photography side of the internet. Now on Photobucket you can edit your images right after you upload them. But I found something even better. Photobucket released an app called snapbucket. You can use all kinds of filters and effects to enhance you mobile photos. It makes sharing them to you computer so much easier than instagram because you can view them on Photobucket.com. It's a great app, and tons of fun to play with.

2. Pixlr-O-Matic

I know, such a weird name, but I promise this little app is quite amazing!

It has so many features, and you can even unlock many different effects.

It was the first app I downloaded to edit my mobile photos with and to my surprise I fell in love.

I thought with such a wierd name it was probably cheesy, but nope, it's great!!

Give it a try for yourself :)

Instagram Photos are in :)

I just love instagram :)

It's probably my biggest addiction.

And FatMumSlim's photo a day challenges make it just that much more addicting!

I will be posting up May's Instagram photos at the end of this month. 

But until them, come join the fun with Fatmumslim. Her blog is awesome by the way :)

Here is May's challenge.

Youtube adventures.

Who doesn't love a nice scroll though youtube? 
Well I was browsing though youtube this afternoon, and I stumbled across some really heart warming christian videos from the band Tenth Avenue North. I really don't know this band very well, but i have to admit their lyrics are out of this world amazing. Although I really wish these videos were "official" these fan made ones are pretty darn good. After watching them I kind of have the urge to try and make my own fan made music video too. Who knows, maybe one day I will. 

The video beloved, is my favorite out of these two. I just love that intimate feeling it brings between God and I. It's hard to believe sometimes how much he truly loves us. This video is a sure reminder. So sit back and take it all in. It's worth your time I promise :)

Monkey's big surprise!

Last weekend our family was blessed with a almost completely new swing set from a friend of my mother in law. It took us by surprise because we really wanted to buy a similar swing set from Brandon but just couldn't find the money to do so. Swing sets run pretty expensive these days. We were all so happy and excited when we heard the news.

Gabriel and and I got to work setting this baby up on Sunday night while Brandon was fast asleep. We wanted it to be a surprise. Let me just say, setting this thing up in the dark was not so much fun. Gabe lost some bolts and nuts in the grass but we managed to get it all together properly....and when i say "we" I really mean HE. :)

Anyway, so we set it all up and Brandon was so surprised!! I can't believe how blessed we are to receive this awesome swing set.

Now our little monkey can have lots of fun in the backyard.