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10 Favorite iPhone Apps

ashleylately — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:00:00 +0000

Hey yall!

Y’all know I’m a big fan of my iPhone. It’s basically attached to me 24/7. If it could just cook me dinner and do my laundry, it would be perfect :)

Since I spend so much time on my phone, I wanted to share a few of my current favorite apps!

1. Echofon for Twitter: Y’all, I have tried pretty much every Twitter app on the planet, and this is hands-down my favorite. It does look different than the Twitter website, but I feel like it’s the easiest to use. It’s easy to navigate, easy to search, and easy to follow. It’s probably the app I spend the most time on.

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2. Instagram: I’ve only been on Instagram for two years, but it almost immediately became one of my favorite social media apps. I love taking and sharing pictures, and I love keeping up with my people and what is going on in their lives. If you haven’t joined Instagram yet, you are missing out. Go sign up now!

3. Pic Stitch: Since I started using Instagram, I have had a lot of trouble with not “over-instagramming” pictures. Sometimes I have more than one picture of an event that I really want to share, so I turned to Pic Stitch! Pic Stitch allows you to create fun collages so you can share all the pictures you want without clogging up everyone’s feeds.

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4. Shazam: I’m obsessed with music, and I LOVE discovering new music! With a push of a button, Shazam will listen to a song and tell you the name of the song as well as the artist singing it. I’ve found SO MANY new songs because of it.

5. Frozen Free Fall: I’m obsessed with Frozen. I can’t help it. This game is similar to Candy Crush (I think), but the levels take you through the whole Frozen story. Major characters accompany you through your journey, including my favorites Olaf and Sven. It’s a pretty challenging game and is definitely not just for kids!

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6. Dots: Dots is the game I play while I’m waiting on new Frozen lives :) It’s basically a connect-the-dots game. The goal is to connect as many of the same color as possible. It sounds simple, but I was addicted within minutes.

7. Ticketmaster: I go to a lot of concerts, and I’ve spent a lot of time in front of my computer waiting and waiting to buy tickets. The Ticketmaster app is SO QUICK! Where I may wait up to twenty minutes on my computer, I can search and buy tickets within seconds. If you put in your city or venue preference, it sends you alerts when a new concert is coming your way.

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8. Pinterest: Do I even need to explain this one?

9. GroupMe: GroupMe is basically a group-texting app. I’ve been in groups with up to eight people. It’s easy because it holds all of your messages in one place instead of clogging up your text messages. You can have an alert pop up every time you have a message, or you can turn off alerts and only check when you have time.

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10. Facebook Page Manager: I don’t do a lot of posting on my personal Facebook page, but I do like to have access to my blog Facebook page any time I need it. I’m trying to do better about posting there, and having an app that takes me directly to the page is really helpful.

What are your favorite phone apps?

Top 2 Tuesday-Favorite Purchases

ashleylately — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:58:00 +0000

Good morning ladies! First of all, I hope you all had a fantastic 4th of July weekend. My weekend was insanely crazy, and the holiday recap post will be up sometime this evening. For now, here is my Top 2 Tuesday list-Favorite purchases made this year!

1. My iPhone!

I know, I have blogged about this stinkin’ thing so many times, but it has truly been LIFE-CHANGING! I don’t know why I waited so long to get one, but I’m so glad I finally got one!

2. Gap pants

As I mentioned a few days ago, Gap is the only store that has pants long enough to fit my giraffe legs. I was down to only one pair of pants to wear to work, so I went shopping and found THREE gorgeous pairs of pants like the ones in the picture. I got them in black, khaki, and grey, and I just loooove them!

What are your favorite purchases of the year? Link up at Taylor’s blog to play along!

Top 2 Tuesday-Deserted Island

ashleylately — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:43:00 +0000

Good morning ladies! Today’s Top 2 Tuesday is items you would take to a deserted island. Here are the things I couldn’t live without.

1. My iPhone

I’ve only had it about a month, but I’m pretty much addicted. I don’t know what I would do when the battery ran out, but it would definitely be great for a little while!

2. Sunscreen
No way could I be stuck on an island without sunscreen! I’m pretty much Edward Cullen pale, so just after just a few minutes, I would be FRIED!

What two things would you bring? Check out Taylor’s blog for more!

Memorial Day and The Bro is 21!

ashleylately — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:06:00 +0000

My Daddy had Friday before Memorial Day off work, so he and my Momma came up to see me and the bro. Colby’s 21st birthday was yesterday, so we celebrated while Momma and Daddy were here. Here are a few pictures from the weekend!

Friday night dinner at Pops

Me and Colby at Pops

the parents

After dinner, we went to my grandparents’ house. My Daddy and Colby went through my great-uncle’s collection of knives, so we had a little fun with them!

Pretty scary, huh?

Momma and I worked around my apartment on Saturday while the boys went to look at a new truck for Colby. He’s been looking for a new truck for about a year, and finally found one! Here he is with it!

Saturday night we went to Outback Steakhouse with our grandparents and adoptive parents from church, then hung out at the grandparents’ house for awhile.

The birthday boy! Grammy made a
strawberry cake-his favorite!

Colby with Wade and Joyce-our awesome adoptive parents

The family

Me and Colby with our grandparents…and Sadie

Brothers…always trying to mess up the pictures

My cute parents!

Also, to celebrate Colby’s birthday, I got…

an iPhone!

After reading everyone’s comments and playing around with a few more friends’ phones, I finally decided on an iPhone. With the money my Momma found in my dresser, I was able to get one, and I love love love it! I seriously think it is the most amazing thing ever invented!

Momma and Daddy had to go home after Sunday morning church and lunch, so after evening church, we hung out with our adoptive family and some friends and watched this awesome movie!

I had Monday off, so I spent the majority of the day laying in my bed watching Glee. I should’ve done something productive, but after these last couple of crazy work weeks, I needed a day to just do nothing. It was amazing!

Monday night, I went to my adoptive family’s house and watched Princess and the Frog with Joyce and Whitley. Great, great movie! I love Disney movies anyway, and this one was really great! If you haven’t seen it, you must!

Colby went out with some of his friends Tuesday night for a birthday dinner, and it got me thinking about my 21st birthday. After cheesecake with the family, I went to dinner with Jessica. Her birthday is three days after mine. Now, we don’t drink anyway, but it is kinda funny telling people that for your 21st birthday, you had dinner with your bestie (who was about 4 1/2 months pregnant) and her two year old son, and you had virgin strawberry daiquiris!

I hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend. I’ll leave you with a little flashback to 2007 and my 21st birthday (back when I was really blonde)!

Wishful Wednesday and a Little Dilemma

ashleylately — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:23:00 +0000

Today on Kelsey’s Wishful Wednesday, the topic is..

‘I wish’…I could home to this
________ bedroom every night!
I am a huge fan of black and white, and I would looooove a stinkin’ cute black and white bedroom like some of these!

I have to have a little bit of color, and since pink is my favorite, I’d throw in a little like this one…

Ok, maybe not the pink walls, but pinkness in some places! I am slowly starting to work toward having this beautiful black and white room. My current bedding is this stuff.

I’ve also recently made a few things to hang on the walls. Hopefully someday I’ll manage to get this room, but fitting all of that cuteness into an apartment bedroom is a bit difficult!

Check out Kelsey’s blog to see other dream bedrooms and to play along!

Now, my little dilemma. My cell phone is due for an upgrade, and I am considering getting something new. The problem is, I can’t decide for sure between an iPhone or a Blackberry. I have played with both, and I definitely want one of the two, especially for job purposes, but I don’t know which would be the best.

The iPhones are sooo much fun. I love the apps, I love being able to access iTunes at any moment, and I love how easy it is to use. The only problems I have are the terrible picture quality, the texting difficulty, and the large size.

The Blackberry is cute and little and looks-wise is close to the phone I have. It would be like having my current phone plus internet and without the slider part. The problems are that it is has a pretty small screen and the menu is difficult to use (at least for me!).

Here is where you guys come in! I’d love to hear from people who have either of these or have played with either of these! Let me know what you like and what you don’t, and, if you’ve had both, which one you prefer. Thank ya much, girlies!