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Using our Summer Infant 3Dlite Stroller at Disneyland - A Review

A few weeks ago we took our first trip to Disneyland and tried out a new stroller, the Summer Infant 3Dlite. In this post I'll go over some of its features, what it was like navigating the airport with it, and just how it generally treated us at the parks.

Visiting the Denver Botanic Gardens Pumpkin Festival in 2024

Visiting the Denver Botanic Gardens Pumpkin Festival in 2024

The Pumpkin Festival is held by the Denver Botanic Gardens at their Chatfield Farms location during the first couple of weeks of October. Here you can pick your own pumpkins, get lost in the corn maze, enjoy live music and food trucks, and take a festive wagon ride. This year

Vegas (with a) Baby!

Vegas (with a) Baby!

Let's just say that taking a 1-year-old to Las Vegas wasn't exactly on our bucket list. But hey, when a family wedding calls, you pack diaper bag and get on a plane! We're not exactly "Vegas People" – we don't gamble

Disneyland baby packing checklist on a wooden table

Packing for Disneyland with a One-year-old

Hey all, quick post this time. We recently returned from our first Disneyland trip bringing our one-year-old and I wanted to share the packing checklist we came up with. Packing Checklist Here's a downloadable PDF of our baby packing checklist. If you print it double-sided it fits neatly

How we fed our one-year old at Disneyland

How we fed our one-year old at Disneyland

We recently completed our first Disneyland trip with our one-year-old daughter. Leading up to the trip, one of our biggest concerns was figuring out mealtimes on the plane and in the parks. Our daughter mostly eats solid foods at this point, but also still drinks breastmilk and formula as well.

Landscape Arch while snowing

Visiting Arches National Park and Moab with a 6-month old

Trip Details Last February, during President's Day weekend, we took our 6-month-old daughter to Moab, Utah, and visited Arches National Park. We love visiting this time of year because the park itself isn't scorching hot and crowds are generally pretty low. Coming from Denver, we have

Chicco KeyFit Caddy stroller in front of Golden CO mura

Chicco KeyFit Caddy One Year Review - My Favorite Stroller?

Over the past year we've used three strollers with our daughter: the Nuna Tavo Next, the Thule Chariot Lite, and the Chicco KeyFit Caddy. They've all been great strollers that fill various roles in our lives, but of the three the KeyFit Caddy has definitely seen

View from Mount Goliath Natural Area

Visiting the Denver Botanic Gardens at Mount Goliath

I first learned of the Mount Goliath Natural Area from the "Other Locations" page on the Denver Botanic Gardens site. It mentioned that it was the highest cultivated garden in the United States and I was intrigued. Then when I learned that the road to it would be

Lavender field at Denver Botanic Gardens Chatfield Far

Visiting the Denver Botanic Gardens Lavender Festival in 2024

The Lavender Festival is held by the Denver Botanic Gardens at their Chatfield Farms location every July. In addition to a moderately sized field of lavender plants, you'll find live music, food trucks, food and craft vendors, a butterfly garden, and some activities. This was our second year

Thule Chariot Lite on gravel road

Thule Chariot Lite Stroller Review

This past March we purchased a Thule Chariot Lite Multisport Trailer & Stroller for our daughter. She's still a bit too small to use it as a bike trailer (my intended use case for it), but we've gotten a surprising amount of use out of it