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Pampers Gifts to Grow Giveaway Event!

**If you do not have a Gifts to Grow account here is a post with sign up information and a list of codes to get you started!**

Hi and welcome! I have teamed up with a wonderful group of bloggers to bring you this fun event. You will be entering to win one of two 60 points Pampers Gifts to Grow codes. If you are saving to redeem your points – this is a great boost or if you are new to Pampers Gifts to Grow – this is a great time to sign up!

Easy Peasy Entry Form!

The entry process is easy just use the Rafflecopter below. There is one mandatory entry and the remaining entries are optional but the more entries completed = more chances to win! And, if you’re feeling lucky – Enter the rest of my awesome giveaways, over in the sidebar!

Thank you for being a fan and good luck!!


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Huggies Squirmy Baby Round-Up & Giveaway

Huggies, Baby, Diapers

The Great Squirmy Baby Round-Up from Huggies!

Changing a squirmy baby can be tough – We’ve all been there, right? Once they learn how to start movin’, you’re always struggling to keep up. From those first attempts at crawling, to a toddler running wild – getting them to hold still for a diaper change can be a challenge! Since here at Sunshine and Sippy Cups we’re all about finding new “Busy Mom Solutions” – I want to share a great one with you today… Huggies Little Movers Slip-On Diapers!!

Why These Diapers Rock

It is getting to be almost impossible to get my little girl to lay down and stay put long enough to get a regular diaper strapped on right – and I’m constantly getting them on crooked, with a baby booty cheek hanging out! Yikes. I absolutely love that these diapers can just pull on and off super quick – and no more ripped tabs as I try to wrap ’em around a squirmy baby. I wish I’d found these Slip-On’s sooner!

Squirmy Baby Video Round-Up

Huggies has a super fun promotion going on right now – Upload a video of your favorite squirmy baby, and Huggies will add some fun clips to it – and post it live on their YouTube channel. You can check out mine of my little goofball dancing around the kitchen here – Abby’s Squirmy Baby Video on Huggies YouTube – and then upload your own too! {Ignore the messy kitchen, we were moving at the time I took this. It’s not the best quality, but it cracks me up with her little “super-star” dance moves. Funny girl.} There are easy peasy buttons that you can then use to share your fun video on Facebook and Twitter too – so you can show off your little cutie pie!

Enter to WIN from Huggies

Huggies wants to give YOU the chance to try out these awesome Slip-On diapers to solve your own squirmy baby challenges too! Two winners will each win a package of the new Little Movers Slip-On Diapers – Use the Rafflecopter form below to enter, and if you’re feeling lucky – Check out the rest of my super awesome giveaways, right over there in the sidebar! The more you enter, the more chances that you have to win!

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Secret to Saving on Baby Basics: Learn to Maximize Amazon Savings

Baby Bargain Mondays with Amazon Mom

If you have to buy diapers, wipes, or formula in your local store, I definitely recommend using a site like Planning Family to stock up printable baby coupons, or subscribe to one of the free baby magazines like American Baby, to get more clipped coupons. But – the BEST way to save money on baby basics is by signing up for an Amazon Mom account, and taking advantage of the Subscribe and Save options.

What is Amazon Mom?

Amazon Mom is a FREE account on Amazon.com – And it gets you FREE 2-Day Amazon Prime Shipping on your purchases! How cool is that, right? Here’s how to sign up for an account:

  • Go to Amazon.com, and click on “Your Account” on the top right side.
  • Scroll down to the section called “Settings” – Then look for the option to enroll in Amazon Mom Membership.
  • When you click that, you go to a screen with a few basic questions – then bam! You are set up with a new Amazon Mom account – Easy peasy.
{Ok – UPDATE ALERT!!! – I’m being told that there is currently a wait list to get into the Amazon Mom program. This is SUPER weird, since it’s a membership – not something that can “run out”, you know? But – It’s definitely worth signing up for, and I hope none of you have to wait very long – it’s SUCH an awesome way to save. If you are able to sign up without a wait list, let me know when it changes! Thank you to the awesome ladies who informed me of this new change!!}

Subscribe and Save

On many items like Diapers, wipes, and formula – You’ll see the regular option to purchase, then an option to “subscribe and save” right underneath of that. When you subscribe, you set up an automated shipment of that product – but you get it at a big discount! So, if you know that you go through 3 packages of baby wipes a month, you set up a new 12 pack shipment to arrive every 4 months. AND – you can cancel that shipment anytime, with no penalties – it’s super simple.

Here’s an example of the savings:

You need diapers, and maybe you’re using the Gifts to Grow rewards program, so you buy the Pampers Baby Dry Diapers Economy Pack. It’s always cheaper to buy diapers in bulk – This package of 192 is only $47 dollars, which is .25 per diaper. Not bad, but we can do better!

  • First, switch from One-Time Delivery to Subscribe and Save – It brings the cost of the diapers down to $37.75 – a savings of 20%, bringing the diapers down to only .20 cents per diaper.
  • Next – you’ll often find coupons after you sign up for Amazon Mom – Like this one on the Pampers: “Save $1.00 with this Coupon – Clip this coupon to save $1.00 on this product when you buy from Amazon.com.”
  • Click the button to “Clip” that coupon – You just saved another dollar!

Using this great Amazon feature saves you time, since you don’t have to keep running out to the store to buy more diapers, saves you a ton of money, and if you buy Pampers – the points from these big boxes of diapers earn you FREE Shutterfly Photo Packages with Pampers Gifts to Grow. You can’t get much better than that, right?

Baby Bargain Mondays

Every Monday is Baby Bargain Monday on Amazon – with loads of great deals on baby stuff like cribs, car seats, and toys – so it’s a great time to shop. Make sure to look for the “Lightning Deals” on baby goods every Monday too – You’ll find some amazing prices.

Free Amazon Credits

When you use sites like Swagbucks, MySurvey, or MyView, you can cash in and build up a ton of free Amazon Gift Card credits too – which can make some of these awesome deals totally free! I have bought almost all of Abby’s diapers and wipes on Amazon, and most of her toys too – and I’ve paid cash for less than half of that. Learning how to maximize your Amazon savings is the BEST way I have found to save money on baby basics.

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An easy {and FREE!} way to get monthly coupons, freebies, and baby advice!

Another FREE Baby Magazine!

Get a totally free subscription to AmericanBaby magazine –  this is another one of those great magazines that always have loads of great coupons in each issue. The other is Baby Talk Magazine, which you can get free too!

Holiday Savings!

If you’re not getting either of these yet, subscribe today! They are both thinner mag’s, and do have a lot of ad’s. But honestly, as a first-time mom, I love ad’s, because I’m always wanting to see what new stuff is out there. And bonus – most of their ad’s have coupons and online coupon codes too. Especially with the holidays coming up… Last year there were $10 off at Amazon coupons in there!!

Love the content – love the savings – love that they’re both a quick guilty pleasure when they come in the mail – love that they’re both FREE! 

Why be the only one missing out? Subscribe to both for FREE today! You’ll get diaper coupons, learn about the coolest new baby gadgets, and more!

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BIG News from a Favorite Baby Site!

Planning Family- A New Mom Resource!

If you’re a momma-to-be, a new mom, or even like me – the busy mommy to a little toddler! – you can benefit from the wonderful content over at Planning Family!

Tons of free baby stuff from the brands you know and trust. Click Here to join!

Freebies and Coupons, but also so much more…

I started using Planning Family for the baby samples, to stock up before my little girl even arrived. And oh boy did those come in handy! When you realize at 2am that you’ve run out of formula, and don’t have another canister – it’s a lifesaver to be able to grab some from your sample stash. Plus, all of the samples we stocked up on were great for filling the diaper bags with trial size products too.

Free Baby Stuff from Planning Family

After the baby came, I started using Planning Family to find diaper coupons. Then I realized how much more there was to the site – I could find answers to most of my baby questions, fun information on Abby’s development, feeding and sleeping advice, and more. It really is a great resource!

Big Announcements Coming!

I got an email from Planning Family today, and is says, “Something big is coming…” It doesn’t give much detail of what is going to happen, but it does mention that “they will soon launch some wonderful new features that will make using PlanningFamily.com quicker and easier than it has ever been!” Making one of my favorite sites even better? Love it.

So, if you’re already a member, stay tuned for the big excitement. If you’re not a member yet, join me there today! If you’re not a mom – you can sign up anyway, and pass those freebies onto your friends, or just share this post to your Facebook and Twitter, so they can join too!

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HUGE Event Ends Tonight – Win a Mommy Goodie Bag – Over $100 Value!! #giveaway #mom #baby

Prize Package

Have you entered to WIN yet?

One lucky winner is going to get a Mommy Goodie Bag STUFFED FULL of great prizes- you can see some of it here, but there’s MUCH more that didn’t fit in the photo!

This goodie bag has a value of over $200!!! The coupons included are worth almost $100 in savings- plus…

Some of the other GREAT GOODIES included:

  • Full size make-up set from Sephora- one of my favorites!
  • Green products for your home!
  • Tons of deluxe-size samples of natural and organic baby products!
  • Bunches of great make-up, fragrance, and beauty samples for mom!
  • A $50 Visa Gift Card!!!!

Amazing right?

Enter to WIN a Mommy Goodie Bag – including a $50 Visa Gift Card today!!!

Get your entries in right away- this HUGE giveaway event ends tonight at midnight!!!

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{Rafflecopter Giveaway} Win a Plush Pad from Ah Goo Baby

Meet one of my Favorite Baby Companies: Ah Goo Baby!

One of my very first baby purchases was the Plush Pad Ah Goo Baby. I’ve told you guys before that I was quite overwhelmed when I first attempted to start the baby shopping… My oh my! There were so many choices, everything was so adorable, and everything was marketed as a “must have” item! How would I ever figure out what we really needed, so I could buy the best for my baby girl on my very limited budget?

More about Ah Goo Baby:

“Ah Goo Baby® creates unique and upscale, yet affordable products that gear toward the ultimate comfort for infants, toddlers and their caregivers. Providing a high level of utility and quality assurance, our products have become the “must-have” items for both new and experienced parents.

Ah Goo Baby® prides itself in creating solutions that resolve those daily frustrations and voids in the way we change, feed, dress, bathe, rest, and play with our children – both in the home and on-the-go.”

Loads of Research…

I was still working on finishing my degree when I found out I was pregnant, and I took on the baby-shopping project with as much effort and research as I did my term papers! {This was just as much work, honestly, but so much more fun of course.}

I read loads of online reviews, tons of those “Top 10 Products Every New Mom Needs”, and most importantly, asked my best friends and family for advice.

Smart Shopping

A year later, I can look back and say that I really did buy “just enough”. We had everything that we needed, and there is nothing that we bought for baby that we didn’t use. So, this momma did a good job :)

{Use the exclusive Sunshine and Sippy Cups Coupon Code- SIPPY930- to save 15% off on the Plush Pad or other amazing Ah Goo Baby products!}

The Plush Pad…

We didn’t have an extra bedroom when the baby was on the way, so I decided to overhaul my bedroom, to make it a really beautiful and cozy place for baby and I. {I figured between feeding, rocking, and sleeping, we’d be spending a lot of time in there, so I’d better make it a nice place to hang out.} I didn’t have room to add a changing table, which I was bummed about. But truly, we really didn’t need one!

Changing Station…

Since we wouldn’t have the traditional changing table, I chose to set up my own “Changing Station” as an alternative. I bought a diaper stacker bag to hang on the side of the baby’s crib, a super cute little shelf with three little gingham lined baskets for supplies like baby powder and wipes, and the Plush Pad by Ah Goo Baby. The Plush Pad is so darn cute, it sits right on top of the shelf, and adds a pop of color to the room. When it’s changing time, I just lay the pad down on the bed, then settle baby down on the soft and cozy memory foam cushion. {the pad feels soft and plush, but is still waterproof!} Such a great option for anyone who is short on space!

A Few Facts:

  • There are portable vinyl and plastic pads available in all sorts of gimmicky shapes or that come in your diaper bag as a freebie, but they are all still cold, hard, and meant to be wiped down with a sponge.  The Plush Pad® is soft, warm, water-repellent and machine washable!
  • The Plush Pad® is now used by a growing list of celeb parents – including Jessica Alba, Naomi Watts, Rebecca Romjin, Nicole Kidman, Patrick Dempsey, Allison Sweeney, Jenna Elfman, Marcia Cross, Amanda Peet, Jason Priestly, Jamie Pressley, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and the list goes on.
  • This mom-invented product {the best products are always mom-invented, aren’t they?} incorporates a lush memory foam cushion, providing superior comfort and support for baby while still enabling ultimate portability for the on-the-go parent with a patented rolling design.
Win one for YOUR baby!

One lucky winner will get to choose their own pattern and design, and win one free Plush Pad for their little one, from Ah Goo Baby!

{Disclaimer: Ah Goo Baby is sponsoring this giveaway, but all opinions are, as always, 100% my own. We already owned a Plush Pad, and used our experience with it over the past year to write this review. I received no compensation.}

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