Wednesday, December 21, 2011

We are live!!! Download-Win an iPad2 and give us a review!

Whoa...wow...I'm exhausted! Ha! It's been a long week...and it's only Wednesday! I'm sure all of you feel the same...it is the week prior to Christmas, which always seems to be very, very busy. I know I haven't finished shopping!

Last Thursday the Marketing team helping us advertise our app for toddlers, Bedtime Bunny Tales, told us we needed to release it on Monday. I wasn't ready...after all I haven't been blogging or tweeting very much (hats off to all of you who do that everyday....you are extraordinary! )but I knew we needed to go for it...so here we are! Both links below will take you to the iTunes store...so hopefully you have an iPod, iPhone or iPad! If you don't...enter our contest to win one!! We've been working with Freebies 4 Mom...if you've read the blog before you probably remember some of our other promotions...but this one is a biggie! just click here for all the details Freebies4Mom 




After all this time, after all the trouble we had with Apple you would think I would be jumping for joy about releasing the app...but I just didn't think we were ready. I kept thinking...I need to do this...prepare that, etc., etc....but finally realized-we gotta do this thing, but right before Christmas?

Every year we go back to Ohio for vacation. We have a big Christmas eve celebration with all the extended family and it is undoubtedly my favorite time of the year but this year, I'm going to have to spend a lot of time away from my mom's house-working the web-generating support for the app! NO! You see, my parent's live in a tiny village called New Martinsburg...and they don't have cable, or internet, let alone a smart phone or iPad! Anyway...we are alive and kicking and we found a new place with wifi about 5 miles from the burg...so all is well with the world, well at least our world-hope your world is well too!! See you soon...and have a very, Merry Christmas!

Sunday, December 18, 2011

OMG-We're live TOMORROW-MONDAY!!!

Today, Sam and I are celebrating our 12 year wedding anniversary by preparing to launch our app for kids Bedtime Bunny Tales-romantic huh? Actually, there's nothing I'd rather be doing. In an hour we're going to my mom's house for dinner...then tomorrow we'll be asking all of you to help us spread the word.

Pray for us...send us good vibes, run around and shout...whatever you think would help!!

Thank you for supporting us...reading this blog, encouraging, laughing and crying with us! This has been quite the year, full of ups and downs, kinda like a roller coaster-thanks for riding it with us!

Look for our links tomorrow on FB!!

xoxo

Monday, December 12, 2011

We'll be ready...just in time for Christmas!

After three years of planning, working, arguing, praying, laughing, giving up, then taking it up again...our first full length digital book...Bedtime Bunny Tales is now finished, well at least the first installment! The picture
to the right is a screen shot of page 21. Twinkles, the bunny, and Noodle, the tortoise, are in the distance.

Several months ago I started blogging as a way to generate interest in our new venture as well as chronicle the making of an app. It seems like yesterday...but it also seems like a lifetime since we started the process. Good times, bad times...rejections from Apple-all of it, will make for a good story one day...especially if the app does really well!

As you may recall....I was helping with 
the marketing and advertising but then I got a job and I left Sam to deal with everything. I know it's been stressful for him but about a month ago we found a company that signed on to help us, so now we're just shoring up the loose ends for them, preparing for launch day.
So...drum roll please...we will release Bedtime Bunny Tales, the free version for the iPad and the iPhone along with the paid version of both, Dec. 21st...just in time for Christmas. Until then...we're spreading the word any way we can. Mark Fitzpatrick, Sam's business partner in Ohio has been talking bunnies everywhere he goes...even to a crowd that isn't the typical techie. I'm sure he made it memorable! He said the ladies loved Bunny Tales...hope you do too!!