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Spring Cloth Diapers {giveaway & Egg Hunt}

With the promises of warm weather coming in this weekend along with our time springing forward, I have all things spring on my brain! As Lucy & Zach are growing {yay!}, I’m finding I’m frequently turning to their one-sized cloth diapers & have recently been moving the snaps or straps over. I’m realizing how convient that aspect of OS cloth diapers is compared to having to repurchase new sized diapers. While I still have mad love for our sized AppleCheeks & itti bittis, here’s a few of my current one sized favorites. And bonus points for their spring colors!

We love our Kawaii diapers. They seemed a little big at first but have grown well with the babies. I love the bright yellow & spring green. And the price!! spring_budS

SoftBums are another daycare go to diaper. They have fun prints for spring including Shamrock Owls! Our daycare ladies & Zach & Lucy’s grands love the aplix vs snaps too. Shamrock_OwlsS

We just have one FuzziBunz diaper but it’s held up great from the very beginning. And the bright yellow or apple green are fun colors to peak out under any dress or onesie. fb-onesize-applegreen120

I just realized I’m a little obsessed with green diapers! Guess I’m ready for St Patrick’s day!

I’m still working on Easter outfits for Lucy & Zach. We’ll be at the beach & it’ll most likely be cooler.  But I’m thinking of being brave & bringing our pink, orange, blue & green Flip covers with both cloth & disposible insets for the weekend. flip-travel-pack-update

{All pictures from Kelly’s Closet who’s currently offering free shipping over $49 & a bonus code: they’re offering a free one sized cover with the code LUCKYCOVER for any purchase over $49.}

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I’m linking up with Kelly’s Closet for their Egg Hunt. Search Suz’s Treats for an egg with a letter on it {*might want to learn a little more about me*}. Then jump over to the other Kelly’s Closet Afflifates blogs & find the others’ letters. When you discover all the letters & spell out a spring phrase, you can get a nice discount code to do some Easter shopping on Kelly’s Closet/Diaper Shops!

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BlogHer Book Club: Let’s Pretend This Never Happened

Let's Pretend This Never HappenedQuick upfront confession. Before reading Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, I knew who The Bloggess was. I’d even met her at BlogHer ’11. I was familiar with her large, expensive chicken & I follow her on twitter. And this book has set in my Amazon shopping cart unpurchased for a while. But I’m not a faithful blog reader of hers.

If her blog is much like the book {& I’d guess it is}, I’ve been missing out. I finished Let’s Pretend This Never Happened last Wednesday & spent a few days really wishing it hadn’t ended. I missed her ‘voice’, her stories in the days that followed. Because she’s funny & totally out there on display in a no holds back kinda way that makes you want to run away from all the chaos & yet sucks you right in. I finished Let’s Pretend feeling like a friend who’d experienced her memoir right along with her.

I’m thankful my childhood was not spent wearing bread bag shoes in rural TX, but I feel like I missed out that I didn’t experience cow fertility lessons amongst other HS classes available to Jenny.

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened had me laughing out loud. The HR notes killed me. Her post-its to her dear sweet oh-so-understanding husband, slayed me. I could write the ones able hanging up towels correctly! And the chapter on her pup & the birds made me appreciate friendships while making me glad I life safely in the suburbs!

If you’re looking for a funny memoir about growing up TX Southern, check out Let’s Pretend This Never Happened. And while you’re at it, jump over to our BlogHer Book Club page to join the discussion.

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Babies’ First Christmas

I admired everyone else’s Christmas posts & swore I’d have ours done before a month went by. Oops! This is fairly pathetic but typical to my life now that I just this week downloaded the 300+ Christmas photos off the DSLR. So yeah, more than two months later, here’s Zach & Lucy’s first Christmas in photos.

Christmas Eve some friends stopped by & one of them took this great photo of our extended family {on my Dad’s side}. Zach & I opening one gift of his Christmas Eve {Lucy was already asleep}. Zach also woke up first early Christmas morning so we played with his Great Nana by the tree until Sister woke up then they played together on the den floor until everyone else in the house joined us.

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We open stockings in the basement in pjs & the babies fell asleep on us. Clearly they were impressed. 😛 Zach & Lucy enjoyed round after round of gifts included an owl hoodie for Zach & his first set of Nerf balls. We attempted pea purees Christmas night aka bath time!

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We stayed up at my parents’ for a few days after Christmas. These are a few of my favorites from the 26th & 27th {Lucy under the tree, Kisses from Daddy & Pops, my attempt at a Lucy & Zach in coordinating jammies shot was a fail for Zach.

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 We enjoyed an awesome first Christmas having Lucy & Zach around. We were all spoiled especially them!

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Zoey’s Attic Giveaway Winner

Huge thank you to all who entered the Zoey’s Attic giveaway. Zoey’s Attic was great to work with & I have my eye on some Easter onesies right now for Lucy & Zach!

And because I just discovered these off the DSLR… More Lucy & Zach!

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There were 37 comments on the giveaway. I shot over to random.org & the lucky winner was…

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Commenter #36…

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Congratulations Jaime C! I’ll be sending you an email shortly with your $35 gift code to Zoey’s Attic.

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BlogHer Book Club: A Good American

A Good AmericanA Good American by Alex George was a delight to read. It had been a while since I’d read historical fiction & this novel was an awesome re-entry to that beloved genre of mine.

To be honest, I really wanted this story to be true! I kinda fell in love with the characters.

The story is told by what for a long time is an unknown future grandchild telling the story of his grandparents: how they met, immigrated to the US, started & raised a family, how they became “a good American”. I loved that A Good American continued to follow the family through the good times & bad generation after generation.

Some of the good times, I kinda guessed & hoped would happen. A few of the bad times I saw foreshadowed but most of them were fairly surprising. And the twist discovered & discussed at the end, I never saw coming.

I loved the food & music & sense of family- the poignant coming-of-age theme & overall thought that while family might be wild & loud & big, they’re still family.

A Good American was a quick read for me. And while I read it during the day while pumping, I continued to think about the characters & story & was looking forward to getting more caught up on the Meisenheimer family the following day. I think you would too.

We’ll continue the discussion on A Good American on the BlogHer Book Club site. Feel free to jump over to see what we’re saying & even add your own thoughts.

While I was provided a copy of A Good American for purposes of this review, I was not otherwise compensated & all the opinions & thoughts mentioned are my own.