Category: We’re freaking fabulous

As Emily told you last month, we are spreading our coolness around the midwest by working with Verizon Wireless’ Midwest Moms.  What up!?  I was rather excited at the beginning of September when Emily handed custody of the Motorola Xoom tablet we are reviewing as part of the program.  I had never used a tablet before and I was intrigued.  After two weeks with the Xoom, my whole family is lovin’ it!  Here are my favorite ways I’ve used the Xoom so far:

1) In the car – Emily shared with you how the Xoom helped make her family’s road trip successful.  Well my family had a similar experience on our way home from Virginia after Labor Day.  Having the Xoom in the car was awwwweee-some! Not only because the fast 3G Verizon service made using the internet and listening to Pandora possible, but because since the Xoom can also be used as a Wi-Fi hotspot, we could use more than one device at the same time! Yee-haa! It was pretty sweet.

2) In a waiting room.  Oh, Lord, do I do a lot of waiting on my children.  This week I used the Xoom to get me through the waiting times at Sophie’s HOUR-LONG gymnastics lesson, her OT session, and Joshua’s swimming lessons.  I can do biz-niss on the Xoom, instead of just waiting!   Anything I would do on my laptop, I can do on the Xoom.  Pay bills, blog, Facebook stalk people, tweet, play games, etc.  And it’s so nice and portable! It fits easily in my purse.

3) At home.  Last week the kids and I hosted a Yo Gabba Gabba party, and I took the opportunity to test out the Xoom as a video camera.  I LOVED using it to record the kids and their *sweet* dancey dance moves!  It is awesome taking video on the big screen, and it was so easy, I gotta tell you I am much more likely to grab the Xoom and take video with it than I am to dig out the video camera.  And, as you can see from the videos below, the Xoom’s video quality is great!  (You should really watch the videos. Joshua’s is only 12 seconds long and features the stylings of Cortney’s son Evan and the cool detachment of Celia’s son Will.  Sophie’s is 37 seconds long.  37 seconds of ADORABLE!)

I love the Xoom! So I’m linking up to Things I Love Thursday at the Diaper Diaries. Head over there to check out what others in the blogosphere are lovin’.

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Verizon Wireless hooked us up with a Motorola Xoom and 6-months of service.

Once again this year, we are headed to Nashville for the annual Blissdom conference. Jenny went to the first-ever Blissdom in 2008, when it was nothing more than a few women in a cocktail lounge. I joined her for the next conference in 2009, which is one of my very favorite bloggy memories ever (and also the time Jenny got stuck in the elevator). And last year, we loaded up in Cortney’s car and drove down again – this time, to the lovely Opryland Hotel.

Needless to say, we are excited to be heading to Blissdom again this year… especially because we’re being sponsored by one of our very favorite companies – Lands’ End. As you may remember, Lands’ End sponsored our trip to BlogHer in 2009, and we are absolutely thrilled to be representing them again. We are beside ourselves about this, because part of the job is wearing their clothing all weekend long. How’s that for a sweet gig?

Here are a couple of the pieces we’ll be wearing at Blissdom:

I’ll be wearing the argyle sweater on the left, and Jenny will be cozy (and stylish!) in the Feel Good ruffle cardigan.

Of course, that’s not ALL we’re wearing (that would be interesting…)! The beautiful thing about Lands’ End is that on their site, we found everything we needed for three days of conference wear as well as cocktail party wear… and of course, accessories, shoes… you name it. Lands’ End has it all!

As you may have noticed, Jenny and I may have a slight Lands’ End addiction problem. I kid you not – last week just about everything I wore to work each day was from Lands’ End or Lands’ End Canvas (if you haven’t seen that line, check it out now. omg bff, I’m in love). We are honored and grateful to be representing a brand that we are obsessed with think so highly of.

So, stay tuned next week for pictures, memories and stories! I mean, it’s me, Jenny, and a five-week-old baby, traveling five hours from home. You know something incredibly embarassing disastrous hilarious bloggable is going to happen!

Look out Nashville, here we come!