This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Graco.  All opinions are my own.

Wednesday, I went to my first blogger event.  As is traditional driving around Atlanta, I got stuck in traffic.  And I got lost.  And it was the baby’s nap time but he decided he no sleep in the car.

When I finally made it to the event, I pulled my new Graco FastAction Jogger out of the trunk, popped it open with the flip of one lever (and didn’t have to kick it around the parking lot while cursing under my breath to get it to open like I do with one of my other ones), adjusted the seat to upright with the flick of my wrist (easiest seat to adjust of any stroller I’ve ever had), dropped the nonsleeper in and walked up to a pavilion filled with moms with identical Graco strollers – same color, same model, and all with babies about the same age parked in them, rubbing their eyes for their naps.

It was gonna get ugly.

But first, it was pretty.  Here’s my good-looking kid in his good-looking Graco Jogger at the beginning of the event.  Does he look cranky to you?

We got a demonstration of all the features of our new strollers, which was cool, cuz, ya know, I don’t read directions for anything.  I like to just wing it, which means I’ll usually end up discovering some truly helpful feature I could’ve been taking advantage of about 2 years after I buy something.  Doink.

So, in between Meyer’s cries, complaints, wanderings around the entire pavilion in a bid to put gravel in his mouth, crawling from one end of the top of the picnic table to the other, trying to teeth on another baby’s arm and smearing banana on his stroller (WHY can’t anything ever stay new for more than 30 seconds?!), our host deftly went through the nifty features.

There are lots of cool ones if you’re concerned about technical things like how to attach a car seat to it (one step), safety (convertible 3 or 5-point harness, lockable front swivel wheel for transitioning from strolling to jogging).  But I’m shallow and all I really care about is the fact that the baby has a cup holder and tray, and I have 2 deep cup-holders and, get this, a freaking smartphone cradle!  With my other strollers, I just pop my iphone into the cup-holder and then it falls out at regular intervals or the baby grabs it and snots all over it.  With the Graco jogger, it fits right into the cradle securely and stays there until you need it.  There’s nothing I like more than my drink and my iphone being right there at my fingertips.

Here are the other things my shallow self likes:  one easy pull and it opens, one easy pull and it folds, automatically locks and then, then…it has a freaking kickstand to hold it up.  You know how you have to lean all your strollers against the wall or lay them on the floor?  Not this thing.  It stands there like a freaking bike!

And of course, it’s all-terrain so it works when I take the kids to our local Farmer’s Market which is held in a gravel parking lot in our neighborhood, and it’s great for when I take the baby out jogging.  Which is never.  But I always mean to.  I will.  Next week.

But it doesn’t matter.  I use it like a regular stroller.  I just like the flexibility.  I’m a rebel like that.

You can check out all the details on Graco’s new jogger here.

Graco’s NEW jogger is the ultimate crossover stroller, combining all the comfort and convenience features of a traditional stroller (FastAction Fold and Click Connect Technology) with performance and maneuverability of an all-terrain jogger.

As an added bonus, Graco’s innovative one-second, one-hand FastAction™ fold automatically locks & is self-standing.

This post is sponsored by the Graco.

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