Mommin' It Up!

February 8, 2009

Weekly Winners: Emily & Jenny at BlissDom ’09 Edition

Welcome to the Weekly Winners BlissDom ’09 edition! We had an amazing time and this week we’ll both be telling you all about it and showing you LOTS of pictures. But to start off we’ll be a tad narcissistic. Before BlissDom, Emily and I realized we really hadn’t had a good picture taken of the two of us since her sister’s wedding…in 2005!!! We decided this terrible oversight MUST be amended at BlissDom, so…I bring you…pictures of Emily and Jenny (and sometimes some other people!) at BlissDom ’09!

Here we are Friday afternoon before the opening session:

And Friday night at the cocktail party:

I know there were some pictures taken of us during the day Saturday…but they must’ve been by other people, because they are not on my camera! So, other people, please email them to me!

Saturday night with keynote speaker and Emily’s girl crush Jen Lancaster. I seriously have NEVER (not an exaggeration) seen Emily SO EXCITED in my whole life. She was totally googly-eyed over Jen (who is totally awesome and funny – go buy her books!!)

Saturday night at the MOST FUN DINNER OUT EVER (story to come!) with AmyInOhio and Shannan from Mommy Bits:

And here with Julia from Hooked on Houses, whom we originally met in an elevator at IKEA 11 months ago:

And with Tricia and Cortney, our Dayton friends from Once A Month Mom (yay for co-bloggers!!!):

That’s a little taste of all the fun we had at BlissDom. Stay tuned for the whole story including the tales of the Best Bus Ride Ever, the Worst Elevator Ride Ever, and much, much, more! Oh and also what we learned about blogging. Yeah, that too!

Fore some photography that is amazing and NOT picture of Emily and me, visit the Weekly Winners HQ at Sarcastic Mom.

February 6, 2009February 5, 2009

Blowin’ Town!!!

By the time you read this my friends, Emily and I (along with my BFF Luanne) will be headed down the road to NASHVILLE (or NashVegas, as I prefer to call it) on our way to BLISSDOM ’09, hosted by Blissfully Domestic and One2One Network. We are so excited to learn some great things to help us become better bloggers and to meet (and see again) some of our favorite bloggy friends. So stay tuned for millions of fun pics and tales from the road as Em and I prepare to deliver a tag-team knockout and pretty much have the BEST WEEKEND EVER!

See ya on the flip side!!

February 3, 2009February 2, 2009

Five Bloggers Walk into a Banana Republic

Last Thursday night, I got together with Andrea of Mommysnacks, Erin of 5 Dollar Dinners, and Cortney and Tricia of Once A Month Mom to go shopping for BLISSDOM! Because of course, any excuse to buy new clothes, we mamas are gonna take. I had never met Erin or Tricia before, but I must say with the whole group, it was like we’d always known each other. We had an instant comfortability, which I loved. First we ate at Panera Bread, where we chatted and I consumed my meal as well as both Cortney and Erin’s pickles, which they were just going to WASTE. (Please, I would never let a perfectly good deli pickle go to waste! I got me some of that!)

Then, it was time to shop! After jokingly taking a twirl around Forever 21 and scoffing at the sequined mini-skirts, we headed over to Banana Republic. When the very helpful sales guy informed us they had an extra 30% off clearance, we hoofed it back to the clearance section posty hasty. (We are all CVSers after all. We likey cheap.) And we all got some great scores! (Well, except for Erin, who’d already gotten something there!) Here’s Andrea showing off her cocktail dress for BlissDom – cloaked in plastic! It is really pretty, and she got it for about $15!

Cortney and Tricia got cute tops for less than $10.

And I got a cute purple sweater dress, which does not look cute in the pic, but is, I promise, very much so. It was $12 and change!

Then we moved on to White House Black Market, where Tricia got a CA-UTE dress for the cocktail party at BlissDom and Erin and I took a dorky picture in a mirror!

Then, came my favorite part of the night: New York & Co. At every store we went to, the sales people would as us if they could help us and what we were shopping for. Here’s how that went:

Us: We’re going to an event.

Them: What kind of event?

Us: A blogging conference

Them: ohh….(eyes glaze over)

So, at New York & Co. it was no different! But when we got to the checkout, where I was buying earrings and Andrea some cute tops, somehow the checkout girls wanted to know MORE. And Andrea began trying to convince them that we were very famous, important bloggers. Because, after all, we’ve been in the NEWSPAPER! And Erin was on TV!

The poor sales girls just did not know what to say. Andrea, Erin and I were giggling like idiots. It reminded me of Ron Burgundy in Anchorman: “I don’t know how to say this, but I’m kind of a big deal.”

After frightening the sales girls, we headed off to Caribou Coffee and got our drink on until they closed and forced us to leave by running the vacuum cleaner so we’d get the heck out. We probably should have told them how famous we are, maybe they would have stayed open later! Ya think?

Thanks girls! It was a great night!