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First Day of Spring Baskets

April 19, 2017 by Aliesha

Catching up on posts around here!

Instead of doing Easter baskets, we do ours on the first day of spring! I know I got this idea from another blogger a long time ago, but I can’t actually remember who it was! But we love that it is a sweet celebration of the beginning of spring, without being a distraction on Easter Sunday morning (because, goodness knows, it’s hard enough to get everyone out the door on time!).

Our baskets for the kids this year contained books, fun activities, cute band-aids, Peeps, and a few other fun surprises.
First Day of Spring Baskets | Feathers in Our Nest

First Day of Spring Baskets | Feathers in Our Nest

First Day of Spring Baskets | Feathers in Our Nest

Here are the books we gave the kids! We love Usborne books SO much at our house (more on that soon!!), and these adorable spring books were the perfect additions to their baskets this year!

First Day of Spring Baskets | Feathers in Our Nest

It was so fun to see their faces as they opened their baskets!

First Day of Spring Baskets | Feathers in Our Nest

First Day of Spring Baskets | Feathers in Our Nest

Fun fact: apparently this was the first time any of my kids have had Peeps (or remember having them). So they kept calling them little squirrels! So funny!

First Day of Spring Baskets | Feathers in Our Nest

Band-aids are one of my kids’ favorite toys.

First Day of Spring Baskets | Feathers in Our Nest

First Day of Spring Baskets | Feathers in Our Nest

Vera also made ME a basket! Wasn’t that so sweet of her? She spent her own money buying me some delicious chocolate, and she wrote some adorable notes for me!!

First Day of Spring Baskets | Feathers in Our Nest

Do you do Easter baskets? Or first day of spring baskets? Or skip the baskets altogether and just dole out candy? Haha!

Filed Under: spring, traditions

Baby Jellybean Gender Reveal!

April 18, 2017 by Aliesha

A few weeks ago we got to find out Baby Jellybean’s gender! We decided to do a little “reveal” this time at our small group. The sister of one of our friends baked this beautiful cake for us and kept the gender a secret so we would be surprised! Another friend, Emily, took these lovely photos for us!

Cutting in…

It’s a GIRL!

We are so excited to be adding another baby girl to our family! Such a blessing!

I’ll have to do a pregnancy update soon… I’m over 20 weeks now!

Filed Under: baby, milestones, pregnancy

Preparing for Baby: Our New Evenflo Travel System

March 21, 2017 by Aliesha

Thank you to Evenflo for kindly sponsoring this post. All opinions are 100% honest & completely my own.

I got to play pretend this week. I got to pretend we were taking our new baby Jellybean on a walk down our favorite route this week! I was testing out our new Evenflo Pivot Travel System, and it was a delight to imagine going on family walks with our sweet new one!

As soon as we found out we were expecting this time, I realized we would need a new infant car seat and stroller system, since the car seat we used for the first four is now expired. I had my eye on this travel system from Evenflo because it comes with three main components: the stroller base, the infant car seat & base, and the carriage.  (This system is called Pivot.)

The carriage is awesome because it is positionable, and you can face it towards you or away from you. You can also change the angle as baby grows! I love the large canopy to provide shade from the sun! It will be perfect for all those family walks this fall!

The stroller is easy to push and maneuver, and I love the storage basket beneath (easy to access)! I also love the cupholder!

I’m seriously getting so excited to use my new travel system!

The infant car seat that comes with this Evenflo travel system is just wonderful! It is crash tested and meets or exceeds all federal safety standards, and I can trust that it is completely safe for my little one on the way!

The car seat easily clicks into the stroller base so if baby is sleeping I can not disturb him or her! Love how easy that transition from car to stroller is.

See this big smile? That’s because I just realized that in a few months, I’ll have an adorable, snuggly baby to buckle into this seat! And, since my babies tend to be “good sized” (in other words, rolly polly), I’m glad that this car seat is relatively light-weight on its own! It’s strong and sturdy, for sure, but carrying it doesn’t feel like a chore. That’s a huge bonus when my babies tend to come out too big for newborn sized clothing!

I love how easily the stroller folds up! It’s like magic. So simple to do (and simple is a big selling point for this busy mom)! When folded up, it is very trim, too! I can easily fit it in the back hatch so it can go everywhere with us!

Getting our travel system is just one more thing we can check off our to-do list as we prepare for baby Jellybean’s arrival! So excited to meet this little one and introduce him or her to our neighborhood!

Filed Under: baby, pregnancy, sponsored

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