As a family that has used NUK Products and will continue to do so, we are happy to share this information and hope you have the chance to win! How awesome would that gift card be?

And we are celebrating  here as well! NUK is offering one For The Love of Baby! reader, a Genius Pacifier. This orthodontic pacifier was just redesigned for 2010!

• Provides better oral development
• Extra soft, extra thin
• Maximum softness and flexibility thanks to integrated soft channels
• Pressure on jaw and teeth is reduced to a minimum
• The additional cavity space maximizes space for the tongue
• The NUK AIR SYSTEM® vent enables air to escape from the nipple, thus ensuring that the pacifier is particularly soft and pliable
• Natural Shape simulates mother’s breast while breastfeeding

One For The Love of Baby! reader will win their choice size of the New NUK Genius Pacifier.

Enter To Win-

Head over to the NUK website. Take a look around and then come back and tell me a favorite item or something you learned about your child’s developmental milestones!

Additional Entries (above must be completed first!)

-Become a fan of NUK on Facebook

-Become a fan of For The Love of Baby! on Facebook

-Twitter this giveaway. Make sure to @mommyjenna and leave me a comment with your status link! (UNLIMITED Entries for the length of this giveaway)

This Contest Will End April 13th, 2010 at 11:59 PM CST. Open to US Mailing addresses. Winner will have 48 hours from the time announced to claim prize.

The Sun is Bright and the weather is officially starting to look like Spring!

The winner of our Baby Bunch Baby Egg Nest Giveaway is: ReggieMann

Congrats! Winner will have 48 hours from the time e-mail is received to claim the prize. Winner has been e-mailed.

Since the first time I saw, Hey Cupcake! Photography, I instantly fell in love. To have a pin-up style photographer here in Iowa? HECK YEAH! Pin-up Style photography has a classic feel to it-it’s one of a kind. Hey Cupcake! is full of talent, obvious from her wide variety of  pictures in her portfolio. She is capable of catching the beauty and personality of any individual.

Vote for Jenna!

When I had the chance to enter the Hey Cupcake! Pin-up Photography! Contest on Facebook, I jumped right then! What a dream come true to have the chance to step in front of the camera and now, I need your help!

Until NOON CST on April 4th, I need to collect as many votes as possible! My picture is currently live in the Hey Cupcake! Contest Album.

How Can You Help Me?

Head over to the picture of me (JENNA). Become a fan of Hey Cupcake Photography and leave a comment on the picture saying you are voting for me. It’s as easy as that!

Liz over at Wickedly Chic has been working hard to put together a great event representing and promoting a wide group of small businesses. From March 25th to April 24th, 2010, you have to check out the Wickedly Chic Spring Fling Event! This fun event will feature 30 businesses where you can learn more about their shops, what they have to offer and celebrate Spring!

Several business will be offering coupon codes for any shopping you might need as well as the chance to win some goodies with giveaways hosted at Wickedly Chic.

Just a few of the businesses to mention include-

The Elegant Bead

Samara Botane

Zaum

…and many more!

So what are you waiting for? Get over to the Spring Fling and let’s celebrate the warm weather on it’s way!

And with April comes my Birthday! LOL. Scary thought. My car registration is taken care of, I had to renew my license for the first time ever-what is it about having a birthday and all the bills coming due?

So while we’re at, I want to know what giveaways you have going on. Maybe I can win some before April 8th right?

The Sunday Stroll is a weekly linky post that allows bloggers to share their current giveaways as well as giving readers the chance to come check them out! Please spread the word about Sunday Stroll by tweeting, Facebooking, etc.

You can not be a blogger without checking out other bloggers-whether blog hopping or following an individual on Twitter, you become aware. You network to find bloggers with similar interests and to find out more about them. Overall, you find ways to relate or gain inspiration.

With that, For The Love of Baby wants to know, “Who, as a blogger, has had the most influence on you?”. Why has this blogger stood out as someone to you? Do you have a blogger that you started reading and then decided to kick yourself up a notch because of? Maybe it is someone that has always been willing to help.

We’d love to hear more about who you find to be an influential blogger. If you prefer to be “quiet” about who is your influential blogger, feel free to e-mail me at jenna@loveofbabyonline.com or Twitter DM me @MommyJenna. If you are fine sharing, leave me a comment! Tell me who it is, share some linky love, and let them know!

Based on the feedback we get, we’d love to spread the word on and share these bloggers with others!

As we become adults, parents, employees, we often get caught up in the daily routine of the “This Needs Done” and find the routine start to blur together. We get constantly wrapped up in worrying about that to do list or the deadline so our bosses approve.

Have you taken the chance to step back and think for a second? What’s important in your life?

Numerous times I have heard fellow parents make the statement, “They grow up so fast.” Now the question is, are you taking the time to enjoy it? Nothing will stop our children growing but what can you do to cherish each moment you have with them.

Are you showing your significant other that you really care about them? Tell them you appreciate them. Even if they do something small, we become too complacent.  We don’t think about the effort. We just let things fall into place.

Ask yourself. What are your priorities in life? Are you letting the best things you’ve ever had slip away? Or are you making the most of what you have. You are the one that controls your happiness. What do you need to do to make YOU happy?

Share your Wordless Wednesday!

FINALLY! I am so sick of all the snow. While we are seeing lots of mud, I really don’t care at this point. I want warm weather to hurry up and get here. I want to take the girls out to the park, take off for the zoo this summer, and on and on.

With warm weather comes more chances to have some fun, my birthday (wink wink), and just enjoy it!

I’m worried about our chances of flooding but hey, we’ll just keep watching it! Get out and enjoy some sun!

With Easter just around the corner, Baby Bunch has created the perfect gift idea for those Moms expecting or a brand new baby. We have had the chance to check out the unique baby gifts Baby Bunch has to offer before, and are excited to give readers the chance to see the fun Baby Sock Baby Egg Nest Bouquets!

What Does The Baby Egg Nest Include?

*Three Pairs of Socks

*One Bird Shaped Drawer Satchet

*A unique nest tied with a ribbon and a bird shaped gift tag.

What a great way to celebrate spring and a new baby. These organic cotton socks will fit babies 0-6 months or approx. 16 lbs. Baby Bunch offers such a great variety of gifts, expecting parents or new parents are sure to be delighted by these one of a kind gifts.

These Baby Sock Bouquets can be purchased for 19.95 at Baby Bunch.

About Baby Bunch-

The best gifts are beautiful and practical. The Baby Bunch is both, making it the perfect present for every new parent. The Baby Bunch is a blossoming selection of infant clothing presented as a bouquet of flowers that makes a unique gift for moms and dads in need of the essentials for baby.

“The Baby Bunch combines practicality with presentation,” says Bryony Boxer, founder of The Baby Bunch along with her husband Simon Martin. “We wanted to create a gift that was attractive yet useful and offers everything a baby needs to get the best possible start in life.”

Bryony and Simon developed The Baby Bunch after the birth of their son. They were grateful to friends and family who brought them thoughtful baby gifts; however, they realized that many of the practical presents they received were blandly packaged. They set out to create a beautiful gift that appeared exciting and unusual upon first glance yet offered parents’ functional pieces such as onesies, hats and bibs that they would need to help them through the first few months of their newborn’s life.

ENTER TO WIN!

One For The Love of Baby! reader will win a 2 bouquets-One Pink and One Blue. Hold one and share one!

UNLIMITED ENTRIES

Because Spring is quickly here and those Easter Eggs are early this year, this contest will have the chance for UNLIMITED entries.

Entry Requirements-

Leave me a comment related to Baby Bunch. Tell me a favorite item, why you think your gift recipient would like Baby Bunch Gifts, etc. You may leave UNLIMITED comments so long as they are in complete sentences and related to Baby Bunch, baby gift giving, etc.

Open To US Mailing Address. This Contest Will End March 29, 2010 at 11:59 PM CST. Winner will have 48 Hours from the time contacted to claim prize.

Tomorrow morning, March 22nd,  head into your local Starbucks and pick up your Free Pastry with the purchase of any beverage!

Get a free pastry on the morning of March 23 with the purchase of a handcrafted beverage.

Come to participating Starbucks on Free Pastry Day, March 23. Choose a delicious pastry to pair with your beverage and that tasty item is free.

Better yet, it’s free in another sense – free of all this stuff we removed from our recipes:

• No artificial flavors
• No artificial dyes
• No artificial trans fats
• No high-fructose corn syrup

To get your free pastry, print out the coupon below and present it to your barista. Or simply show them the coupon on any mobile device. But Free Pastry Day ends at 10:30 a.m. – so don’t miss out!

Get your Free Pastry Coupon!

Is it just me or are there some awesome movies out right now? I keep seeing previews and doing an OO OO I wanna see that! There have been times that I’ve thought all movies sounded just blah-nothing to keep my attention. Right now? I have a ton of movies catching my eye-some for obvious reasons.

Alice In Wonderland

Brooklyn’s Finest

The Bounty Hunter

Letters to Juliet

Remember Me

Yes I know-quite a list. It takes something sticking out to make me want to see a movie and all of these have that “click” for me.

What movies are ones you would love to see?

April 22nd is Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. With that, Barbie and The White House Movement are hoping to collect signatures in the following petition to present to First Lady Michelle Obama in a declaration to inspire girls nationally. The current goal is to raise 1 Million Signatures.

What is this declaration you might wonder?

We believe that when you add women and girls, you change everything.
We are leaders and dreamers.
We are the future.
And, we want help making positive change –
for ourselves and the world around us.
This declaration calls on everyone in the Obama Administration to:

Become a mentor this year.
We need role models who can show us that no dream is too big or too wild.
If we can dream it, we can do it.
If we can imagine it, we can be it.

Look at the world through our eyes.
We ask President Obama to take a moment to consider how every piece of legislation may affect girls and women before he signs it.

Ignite a national movement to inspire girls.
On April 22nd, we ask The Administration to accept this Declaration from
us powerful girls and women at a proposed ceremony celebrating
“Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.”
Make sure your voice – and dreams – are heard by signing now.

Will you help sign this declaration and show our girls around the country know they can accomplish anything they put their mind to?

Hope you are having a great weekend. The Sunday Stroll is used to help promote ongoing contests throughout the blogosphere. Feel free to submit your blog contests with our linky below.

Cocktails With Mom- Seagate Free Agent Go Portable Drive

The Ohana Mama- Punkaboo Labels

Blommi-Soft Clothing Soft Tee

Designing With Eve-Custom Header and Matching Button

1 Stop Mom-zPizza $20 GC

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