Mommin' It Up!

September 6, 2009

Weekly Winners – My Friends Have Cute Kids

Yesterday my wonderful hubby invited a few family and friends over to celebrate my birthday. We had a great time. And there were kids EVERYWHERE! So we I had some great kiddie photo ops. Here are a few of my favorites from the festivities.

Here’s Emily’s little Sammers. He was loving the bubbles!

And Cortney’s little guy Carter was loving the sidewalk chalk (in a slightly unconventional way):

My friend Andrea’s little guy Leland was keepin’ it real, ’cause he knows it ain’t a party until someone takes their clothes off!

My friend Beth’s little boys, Eban and Benji – I had to capture them while they were sitting still!

This is Joshua’s kindergarten buddy Ethan making some sweet bubbles!

And here are my own cuties playing with my father-in-law, their “Pop”:

It was lots of fun! For more Weekly Winners, go visit Lotus at Sarcastic Mom.

September 5, 2009September 5, 2009

Excited! About! CVSing!

This week I had my first good, fun CVS run in a few weeks. I have been kind of lazy about it, but when I saw that two of my fave new products were on sale this week AND that I had really good coupons for said items, I got myself together, threw (not literally!) Sophie in the car, and headed over to CVS. The two products I was excited about were Tide Stain Release and the Bounce Dryer Bar. Now, it takes A LOT to get me excited about laundry, but I got samples of these babies at BlogHer and they both rock my socks off. Now that I am on a schedule and am doing laundry more regularly (instead of only when NO ONE in my family has clean clothes), these products are really making my laundry life easier and I LIKE-A DA EASY.

So, anyhoo, here’s what I got at CVS!

Tide Stain Release $3.99
Bounce Dryer Bar $3.99
Two Skippy $6
Glade Soy Candle $6.99
Mountain Dew $1.49
Total = $22.46

Coupons used:
$4/$20 CVS email coupon (way expired but my CVS takes them for 30 days after)
FREE Tide Stain Release coupon from BlogHer swag bag!!
$2.50 off Bounce Dryer Bar coupon from Vocalpoint mailer
$2 printable Glade manu q
total= $9.97

I paid with 5.88 ECB, paid $4.85 in cash and got back 11.99 ECB! 1 each for the Tide & Bounce, 1 for the Mountain Dew (you had to buy 2, I had bought one previously), 6.99 for the Glade Candle and 2 for the Skippy.

I was pretty pumped getting all these products I love & use for such a great deal!

To see what great bargains everyone else got this week, check out Super Savings Saturday at Money Saving Mom.

September 4, 2009

Happy Birthday, Jenny!

Tomorrow marks a very momentous occasion – Jenny’s 32nd birthday. Oh, right, you already know that, because she told you what to buy.

In any case, I know that for me and Jenny both, one of the highlights of the past year has been all the amazing friends we’ve made through this blog.

So, I’ve enlisted a few of our friends to help me wish her a happy birthday.

In 140 characters or less.

Because that’s how we roll.

From Cassie Aiden:
cassieaiden

From Tricia:
onceamonthmom

From Erin:
5dollardinners

From Marianne (referencing this post):
writermommy

From Shannan:
mommybits

From Amy:
amyinohio

From Jill (referencing her favorite Jenny story):
diaperdiaries

From Katie, a college friend turned bloggy friend:
frugalfemina

From Momo Fali:
momofali

From Greis (this may be the most touching birthday wish yet):
amazing greis

Several of Jenny’s friends wanted to include pictures in their birthday wishes!

From Sarah:
sarah in mi
Classic Jenny
Jenny with Sarah and Audrey at BlogHer:
jenny sarahinmi audreymcclellan

From Mishi:
secretagentmama
secretagentmama and jennyitup

And finally…. my very favorite of all… from Cortney:
cortney pic
jenny and cortney

And from me (I tried to DM myself to keep some consistency here but Twitter wouldn’t let me. Who knew?)
Happy birthday, Cousin! I hope your 32nd year is the best one yet. Love you!

Please add your birthday wishes to Jenny in the comments!