You Asked For It!

In celebration of our Blogaversy (or is it Blogiversary? I better consult the Urban Dictionary!), Emily and I are answering reader questions! So if you have any questions, please email one of us or leave a comment. We just are DYING to spill our guts here. Really. Anyhoo, one of the questions we’ve gotten more than once is how and if we make money blogging. Well, we are NOT the people to go to for advice on the subject, but we have made about an average of $60/month over the past year thanks to this blog and Google Adsense, Text Link Ads, and BlogHer Ads. (Split two ways of course, so we are TOTALLY rolling in it!! But it’s nice to have and we make it doing something we enjoy!) Although I noticed while I was on vacation that our google ads have diappeared, and I really need to look into fixing that. But I juuuust haven’t gotten around to it yet. So you can see how concerned I am about bringing home the bacon with this endeavor!

Jen B. sent me the question, “Where did you go to college?” I went to Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky, which is just about the smallest town ever, but it is close to Lexington. It’s a small Christian college with a small, idyllic campus and lots of good programs. I really enjoyed my time there, and I met a lot of great people there as well. I majored in Media Communications and I loved it. But the work was hard, and I was reaalllly glad to be done when I graduated! I could never do grad school. I am way too wimpy!

Jen also wanted to know if I plan to send my kids to Christian school. Bobby and I plan to send our kids to Dayton Christian Schools, which is the same school we attended. But, if we can’t afford it, I will homeschool. But I realllllllllllllllly don’t wanna homeschool, because I am basically selfish and lazy, so I will keep a-clippin’ those coupons so I can send my babies to school!!

Another question I got more than once was if I could pretty please tell you something funny about Emily. So, I MUST oblige, sorry cousin! Here’s the dirt: when Emily was her daughter Kate’s age of 4 years, she was painfully shy. So shy, in fact, that she would not even talk to my mother, her beloved Aunt Diane. (Whereas I suffered then and now from “cantshutup-itis”.) And my mom is like, the Preschooler Whisperer, she’s a professional, but apparently even though she was her aunt who she saw about once a week, she was too scary for Emily to make eye contact or speak to! Fortuntately, Em’s social skills have come a long way since then. But I gotta laugh when I see Kate’s gregarious personality and think she definitely got that from her daddy!

Have I whetted your appetite? Are you dying to know more?? Email us at jenny[at]momminitup[dot]com or emily[at]momminitup[dot]com and tell us what you wanna know! Or leave a comment! PLEASE!! Or we might have to come up with original content this week and that would suck. 🙂

Tomorrow’s the ACTUAL Blog-iversary date so dont forget to get us a present!! After all, we’re giving you one! GO ENTER!!

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Blog-iversary Giveaway!

Ok so if you have more of a life than we do didn’t spend your Friday night reading blogs, you may have missed our big announcement…

Mommin’ It Up is turning a whole year old and we are celebrating with a rockin’ giveaway!

All you have to do is leave a comment on Jenny’s giveaway post. If you want a second chance at winning (and you do, because the prizes are sweet), put a link to us on your blog.

You can get all the details on the prizes in Jenny’s post but here’s a pic of the grand prize – a fantabulous gift basket from our friends at Target.
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We also have another prize – a $25 gift card to CVS. We’ll either send you the gift card, or if you’re not the giant CVS dork that Jenny is (and I pray most of you are not), you can send her a wish list and she’ll work her magic and turn that $25 into a gazillion dollars worth of CVS merchandise. Pretty sweet, eh?

AND, just in case you don’t already know more about us than you ever wanted to, we are opening ourselves up to questions this week, so ask away. Either leave a comment with your question or email it to us (jenny [at] momminitup.com or emily [at] momminitup.com) and we’ll post the answers later in the week. I’ve been asked to tell you all something interesting about Jenny, and I am carefully crafting my response. I’ve got the goods, you see, but you know what they say about paybacks…

Anyway, I will stop babbling now, but enter to win those cool prizes by leaving us a comment on Jenny’s giveaway post and help us out by asking random questions… we need some material for this week’s posts!

And as always, thanks to both all of you readers for making this such a fun venture.

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Weekly Winners June 8-14 – Family Vacation Edition!

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Hosted By Sarcastic Mom

I took over 400 photos on my family vacation, which is a reedonkulous amount! But I have narrowed the field down to a few of my favorites to share with you this week! We went to my parents’ house in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, so all of these photos take place in that area, and all were taken with my amazing Sony Alpha DSLR-300k, which rocks!!!

Sophie was very serious about playing at Otter Creek:
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Joshua has a little more fun playing in the Maury River:
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The view from my parents’ porch:
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It was almost 100 degrees, so we stripped Sophie to her diaper and put her in a tub with a little water in it to play:
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She was having a great time, I don’t know what this look was for! Maybe she was sick of me taking pictures!

My Daddy. Is he not adorable? He is in his element here on the mountain. (Happy Father’s Day Dad!)
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My Dad’s irises. My favorite flower!
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My father & my son at the Maury River. Those dots you see in the background are my brother and my niece & nephews swimming.
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We made a bonfire and had s’mores. This was Joshua’s first s’more ever. He was in heaven!
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Sophie really wanted to get near that bonfire and she was really mad that I wouldn’t let her. I am such a meanie!
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But she cheered up a little later when she got to watch her brother and her cousins run up and down the mountain over & over again. They are fascinating!
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All right, I’m FINALLY done! We had a great time and I hope you enjoyed these shots. For more great photos, head over to the Weekly Winners HQ at Sarcastic Mom! Oh and HEY! If you are here via Weekly Winners, make sure to also check out and enter our Fa-blog-ulous Blogaversary Giveaway!!

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