Happy birthday to me

Another year older:

So it’s my birthday in a few days, although when I hope to upload this post, it will in fact be the day of my birth - 26th October to be precise, hmm, actually it’ll probably be the day after being completely honest, I doubt I’ll have much time on my actual birthday...but we’ll see... anyway its the day I turn 21; my first birthday being a mummy.. Although I was pregnant on my birthday last year, I just didn’t know, so technically in a sense it’s not technically my ‘first’ birthday as a mum, but it is at the same time...hopefully you get what I mean? Haha. 
I can honestly say this year has been the best year of my life, so many changes; all positive changes, all changes that have made my life a million times better, more than a million times, I don’t actually have a word for how much happier I am now or a word to describe how much my life has changed in a positive way. How much love I have now, there just isn’t a word in my vocabulary that could describe those things. I don’t think in my entire life I’ve been this happy, becoming a mummy has been the most rewarding, amazing, the greatest change in my life; being a mummy to our beautiful daughter Evangeline is the best thing that has ever taken place in the 21 years I’ve been on this planet – I love her more than anything.
If someone had said to me this time last year, you’ll have a beautiful baby girl, living with Zachary in your own place, running a blog, working with so many amazing companies and have over 31 thousand followers on your instagram; I never would’ve believed them. I cannot even begin to think of a way of describing how lucky I am. And I cannot even comprehend or even begin to think just what it’ll be like next year...will we be living in the same house? Will our little instagram family have grown? Will I still be uploading on my blog? (I hope so!) – I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. And so many things to look forward to next year, and this year too! But that’ll all be spoken about in another blog post I’m sure. 
But anyway, I’m going to wrap this up – because as I mention in pretty much every post, if I don’t I’ll be sat here for hours typing away having a good old ramble...so I hope you all have a spiffing day, thank you for reading and I’ll speak to you soon!

Mamas and Papas Urbo 2

Pram review 

I’ve been asked recently on my other platforms of social media whether I would do a review on our pram – so here it is. I mentioned in one of my previous blog posts about myself and Zachary purchasing a new ‘travel system’ for Evangeline. I uploaded a very similar post a few months back reviewing the ‘mothercare orb’ what are views on the pram were, why we bought it and so on – so if your interested feel free to go and have a nosey. But since that post we’ve purchased a new pram the ‘Mamas and Papas Urbo 2’, I briefly spoke about this pram in the other post to haha. 

 
So for those of you wondering ‘why did you change your pram?’ the main reason we purchased a new pram was because of our car, we bought a new car – our previous car wasn’t very practical as it only had 3 doors (including the boot) so moving Evangeline in and out in her car seat was a full on work out haha. We bought a 5 door car (again including the boot) which happens to be a lot smaller than our previous car – therefore our pram frame/chassis didn’t fit along side the carry cot therefore it resulted in us having to travel with the carry cot on the front seat when using the pram; which was a bit of a pain and not very practical if we’re being honest. But anyway, I’m rambling. We had to buy a new pram that could actually fit in our car, and I guess one that we both liked. 

So as I previously mentioned in my ‘travel system’ blog post, I’ve always been drawn to the Mamas and Papas Urbo 2 ever since we started looking at prams when I was pregnant – but I didn’t particularly like the pram wheels, silly I know, but I wanted a pram I loved 100%. However every time we’d go into a baby shop I’d instantly be drawn to this pram, pushing it around the shop haha. When it came to finding a new pram that actually fit in our car boot, I suggested this pram to Zachary and he agreed, he liked it, we both did – and I had grown to accept the wheels haha. Apart from being a lovely, modern looking pram it fit perfectly in our car, BONUS! 

 
Lets move on to the review or I’ll be rambling on for hours haha. Our pram is as I mentioned the  Mamas and Papas Urbo 2, ours is in the colour ‘slate blue’ although to me it just looks grey...haha, either way its a beautiful neutral colour; and has a chrome frame with fabric details. We purchased our pram from Mothercare, a bundle deal that included the chassis (obviously haha), a carry cot, the ‘seat’, car seat adapters, rain covers and my fav a cup holder.

The pram is described as a ‘stylish pushchair, perfect for city living.’ And I couldn’t agree any more, this pram is a simple, modern, classy design and can be used with either gender. As I stated above the pram has a simple look, nothing to bright or to in your face if you get what I mean haha; which is what we were looking for.

As I mentioned our pram came with a bundle deal – so lets talk about some of the items that were included:

• Carrycot: The carry cot can be used from 0-6 months, enabling Evangeline or your baby to sleep comfortably and lie on her/there back. Which is perfect for on the go napping!
• The adapters: These enable us to attach Evie’s car seat or your baby’s car seat to the pram chassis for a quick pop into the shops or when needed – the adapters are extremely easy to use, they are one click to attach and detach; so you dont bave to faf around
• Cup holder: This is perfect for keeping you hands free, having a cup holder enables me to place a bottle or cup onto the pram for easy reach; rather than having to hold a cup/bottle when trying to control the pram.

So far we’re loving the pram, it’s very easy to assemble and folds rather compact meaning storage isn’t an issue (unlike some other prams we looked at). There is only one thing I will grumble about – and that is the performance of the pram on a variety of different terrains, unfortunately any flooring that isn’t ‘city like or completely flat the pram is very bumpy, but its still comfortable for Evie so isn't really that much of an issue. Back to the positives. The carry cot is padded and comfortable for Evangeline resembling her mosses basket,, its a very sturdy pram which I love (I hate wobbly prams) and just overall a great travel system and I would totally recommended it! 

For those of you wondering when purchasing the pram the retail or bundle price was £649.00 – which in my opinion for the items you receive the price is amazing!

I hooe yoi found this helpful if you are on the hunt for a new pram/pushchair. Thank you for reading, and I'll speak to you in my next post.

Saturday chit-chats

08-10-2016

I don’t believe I’ve actually ever written a post on a Saturday before?! Or least I can’t remember doing so...I’ve been so busy this last week working on future posts, non stop emails and having discussions about some exciting collaborations with some fab companies – specifically for my instagram. I just completely forgot that I hadn’t written a post to upload during the week, whoops! 

We’re not doing to much today; perhaps some Christmas and birthday shopping, hopefully somewhere indoors or at least I hope? The weather has changed drastically the last few days, or at least I think so haha, the beginning of this week I was wearing flip-flops and a top; yet now I’m busting out the winter boots and jumpers! I love it, although I’ve probably contradicted myself considering I’m wanting to stay indoors and I guess anyone who says they ‘loved’ the weather would want to be outside…

This is my favourite time of the year, full of celebrations. So this months filled with birthdays, Zachary’s mums birthday – the 10th, my nephew’s on the 16th, he’s going to be 4! Then on the 20th there my mummy’s birthday, my birthday is on the 26th and I’ll be 21!! Then of course there’s Halloween. November, my daddy’s birthday on the 16th. Before that there’s firework or bonfire night. Then there December my sister’s birthday is the 2nd, on the 23rd is Zachary’s birthday and of course Christmas and new year. So a very busy next few weeks.

I’m in the process of washing Evangeline’s 3-6 month clothing, although in saying that I’ve been in the process of washing them for a few weeks now, she has sooooo many clothes – and I just keep buying more haha, there just all so stinking cute!

Anyway, I’ll be uploading some exciting posts in the next coming weeks so keep your eyes peeled for those. I’m going to end this ‘chit-chat’ here as we’re about to head of on the hunt for a variety of gifts and I’ll speak to you beautiful bunch in my next post! ♡