Staycation Day Two: Blogher11 Mil-Bloggers

You may be sick of hearing about Blogher11 by now, but it was so amazing I can't stop talking about it. FYI Blogher12 is in New York, I hope to see you all there! 

My time at Blogher wasn't only spent grabbing swag, although I'm not going to lie I did a lot of that. I also attended some panels and a Birds of a Feather group- where people who have like minded blogs can meet. Since I am a military wife, it was only natural that I attend the Milblog Bird of a Feather. I'm such a newbie to blogging and being a military wife I had never even heard of Milbloggers, did you know they have an entire convention for Milbloggers? 

Day 2, MilBloggers- I was fortunate enough to meet and outstanding group of women, seriously they are all amazing! As a newer military wife in a new duty station I don't really know many military wives, so this was a great opportunity to learn from women who have been there and done that so to speak. We came together from different branches of service and all across the ranks to share our stories with one another.  

Military Wives Roll Call

Back row from left to right:

- Kristen {and her friend/business partner Tiffany, front row holding the lil princess} their blog is aurorababies.blogspot.com, they also have a webstore: http://www.aurorababies.com. 

- Kristina from mytravelingtroop.com

- Stephanie, lawyermama.com from bluestarfam.org

-April from marineparents-blog.com and her etsy shop is Taprilcrosier.etsy.com {her store has super cute beaded teething necklaces, which her and Amber from Goodnight-moon.org are wearing}

- Erica from guidetomilitarytravel.com and travelswithsam.com

- Me, Annie from navywifediary.com

- Shannon from Sassylemonade.com {I just bought an anchor necklace form her shop which I love, expect to see it often!}

- Stephanie of k12.com

Front row from left to right:

-Jayne from meateatingmilitaryman.com, 

-Claire, The Half Hearted Housewife Halfheartedhousewife.com

-Molly, Yumamom.com from Bluestarfam.org

- Janelle,  Rellasbellas.com, etsy store rellasbellas.etsy.com {she is wearing my favorite item from her shop, her fabric rosette necklace}

-Tiffany from aurorababies.blogspot.com, webstore: http://www.aurorababies.com {they have some amazing and green products for your baby, if you know me at all you know I know nothing about babies or children so I can't really be much help here!}

-Amber from Goodnight-moon.org

This was by far the highlight of the convention for me. I know I met some amazing women, who I hope to know for a long time.  Please check out their blogs and Etsy shops ;)

Of course there was some swag grabbing, this is just from one day
{yes, the bags are completely full and so is my tote bag, seen here}

I got to try out and learn about some great new products

Skinny Cow now makes candy, yum!

Post-it has some super cute new dispensers

Dr. Scholl's makes shoes and they look comfy, I'm already a big fan of fast flats {as seen here} and my husband who is on his feet 18 hours a day just put some gel insoles in his boots and is already loving them! 

Chapstick has a new flavor- green apple, I'm still a cherry girl ;)

You may be wondering what do you do with all that unwanted swag? Well, I didn't actually have any, I can find a use for anything, but If I did I could have taken my unwanted products to the swag exchange. Where you leave what you don't want and take what you do. At the end of the convention the rest was donated or recycled- what an amazing and green thing to do! 

inevitably there was also some more silliness with

 Ambers from Amber's Notebook!

XOXO,

Annie