Welcome to our family and friends!

We are so excited to welcome our first baby in November and can’t believe how quickly the date is approaching! We’re grateful that our little one will be welcomed by many wonderful family members and friends– an incredible gift in and of itself. If you want to give the baby a gift, read on… and know how much we appreciate your generosity.

You’ll find that this registry is a bit different than traditional ones. Encore encourages the use of repurposed and recycled items, and also makes it possible to register for intangible gifts. We love this approach, as we hope to live as simply and sustainably as possible and are trying to be creative in reducing the material items we need. We have already been able to acquire many repurposed baby items through early thrifting trips and hand-me-downs from friends.

We hope that you enjoy exploring the gift ideas we’ve shared here. Some items will be specifically linked to Amazon, while others are more general such as “15 clothing items, 9 mo-2T). For any “used” registry items, please feel free to pass on hand-me-downs from your own home, or thrifting bargains that you find. If you do purchase something from this list, please update the registry by entering the number of what you buy. We hope you’ll have fun picking items, too!

We have also indicated some intangible gift options that include a gift of time or an experience, instead of a traditional material gift. These include “gift actions” that would be really helpful for us as a new family, as well as activities that we hope to enjoy with the baby in the upcoming year (parks pass, etc…).

Let us know if you have questions about how this works– and we are grateful for all your support, excitement, and prayers! We cannot wait to meet our little one!

Love,
Jennie and Kevin