Do you have a total budget for car seat plus stroller? I'm a CPST (child passenger safety technician) aka car seat specialist. I help families choose, install, and use their car seats correctly and I also happen to be a mama to 3 littles (7yo, 4yo, 13mo) and I'm a bit of a baby gear nut. My biggest tip is to skip the pre-bundled travel systems. Pick your car seat and stroller separately. Not all, but most of the pre-bundled travel systems come with lower quality strollers, and sometimes lower quality car seats. Most nicer strollers can be made compatible with the nicer car seats. The Chicco KeyFit is my long time favorite infant car seat. It is compact (fits well in most cars), easy to install (so long as you fully read the instruction manual and your vehicle owner manual's section on car seats), simple to use, and fits even tiny newborns very well (surprisingly not all infant seats do). There a lots of other great options at a variety of price points though so I'd be happy to suggest others as well. As far as strollers, I'm a Baby Jogger lover. I love my Baby Jogger Versa (discontinued but a few left out there on the internet). The Versa was recently replaced by the Baby Jogger City Premier and is very similar. I love that you can flip the seat of it to parent-face or face out. The seat is huge (even my 7yo can hop in for a ride if he wants) and it has suspension for all 4 wheels. If you don't care about the ability to parent-face, the Baby Jogger City Mini GT is excellent. Super easy, 1 hand, 1 step fold. I can hold a baby in one arm, and fold the stroller and lift into my trunk with my other hand. Many people are not aware, but there is a big push in the medical community as well as in the child passenger safety community to encourage parents to really limit the amount of time babies are spending in car seats OUTSIDE of the car. For this reason, I encourage families to skip the travel system set up. As an alternative, wearing baby in an ergonomical, anatomically supportive carrier (ErgoBaby, Lillebaby, Beco, Boba, Tula), ring sling, or wrap is a great option or getting a stroller with a lay-flat recline (or added basinet option) to put baby directly in the stroller. For quick errands in and out of stores with a sleeping baby, leaving them in their car seat is usually fine on the limited occasion, but if baby is awake or it will be for extended times, taking them out of the seat is recommended. If you arrive home and baby has fallen asleep, it is recommended to remove them from the seat and attempt to transfer to a crib or wear them in an upright carrier. The semi-reclined position car seats put babies in is needed for vehicle transport, but is not optimal from a health and development perspective. This is a good link on the subject: http://blog.onyababy.com/2012/06/benefits-of-babywearing-vs-carseat-carrying/

our stroller isn't an umbrella stroller but it does fold up as small as one and is extremly light weight. I ordered ours from the site below. The price was very good compared to the one store around here that carried it and by ordering it you can choose the fabric from seversl patterems. I chose the Galaxy because the bright green wheels make it easy to spot when we go on vacation to Disney or Universal Studios. The best part about this stroller is that it has a shoulder strap to carry it around when it is folded and ti will hold a child up to 45 lbs. That is the highest weight I could find on a stroller other than a jopgging stoller or one that cost $300. It does take a little getting use to because of the way it is designed to go over rough surfaces. Because eash wheel can move up and down on its own it feel like it isn't sturdy. It is very sturdy but sways a little because of the way it is made. Here is a link that might be useful: combi stroller store

Thanks everyone for the input, decided to go with stripe. Just went to place my order as it's the last day of the current promo only to find out that the umbrella is excluded. So I cannot get 20% off plus I have to pay $25 for shipping. I'm so annoyed. Ballard Designs is intentionally misleading with their promotions and "exclusions". Either have sales and promos or don't. Enough with gimmicks. I think I will look elsewhere for an umbrella as I'm so irritated.

I like cantelivered umbrellas with removeable covers that can be replaced if needed . If you leave your unbrella out in all the weather it will soon be filthy have mildew stains that often do not wash out . I have cheap ones and expensive ones and both have had their good points and bad points . IMO the one costco is cheap because of costcos buying power not because it is crappy.There are so many things you need to compare besides price.