It’s time to announce the finalists of our “The Kid in You” photo contest, sponsored by Nestlé Crunch and their “For The Kid In You” campaign.
Now that we have selected the twenty finalists, it is up to you to decide which photos best reveal the spirit of childhood.
The Contest is CLOSED. The winners have been announced HERE.
And to bring out the spirit of being a kid even more, Nestlé is providing fantastic prizes:
The Grand Prize: A Nintendo Wii
Second Prize: A piñata packed with Nestlé!
Selecting the finalists was not easy! All of you had such fun, wonderful photos. Please forgive us if we didn’t choose your shot – it was so hard to decide.
Thank you so much for being a part of 5 Minutes for Mom and for taking the time to join in and play.
I loved visiting each of your blogs and looking at the photos sent in via email. I was inspired and entertained – and I laughed out loud. (I am so sorry I didn’t have time to comment or reply. I wish I had more time so I could comment on each photo. I spend far too much of my life buried under the mess in my inbox and I don’t get to get out and blog visit like I used to!)
If you are selected as a finalist, feel free to announce it on your blog, facebook, twitter, etc and get your friends to vote for you. That is fair game. But please play fair and do not use proxy servers or other black hat methods of increasing your votes. If we do discover unfair practices, we will have to disqualify the parties involved. Remember the spirit of our site and play nice!
Voting will end Monday, June 9th, 12pm Eastern Daylight Time. We will announce the winner at 12pm EDT.
This contest is only open to US residents. In the event of a tie, the winner will be determined by a random draw.
Thanks again to Nestlé for sponsoring all this kid-inspired fun and now let’s get to the finalists…
(The finalists are not listed in any particular order and you can only vote once.)
Here are the photos:
Courter Blog
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On The Go Mom
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And The Duck Said
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Snippets and Sagas
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Keeping My Fingers Crossed
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Think Mama Think
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Welcome to Married Life
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Spaghetti Pie
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Mommyology
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Cead Mile Failte
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Changing More Than Diapers
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Mom of Three Girls
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It’s My Crazy Life
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A Day in the Life of a MaMa
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Thoughts of a 20-Something-Year-Old
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email entry from Bonny
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email entry from Kathleen
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email entry from Julie
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email entry from Vicki
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email entry from Linnea
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congrats to the finalist. i thought this was suppost to be the kid in you meaning. yourself not your children? the kid in you as a adult
Oh, these are all GREAT photos! I don’t know what to choose!
Steph
Love the photos, they are all so precious!
Thanks for including the photo of my daughter!!! Thanks!
These are precious! Too many good ones to chooce from! But since the title is “kid IN you”, the adult pics are my favs!
Yes Brandi – we were looking for adult kid IN you pictures – but we left in open to interpretation saying that we were looking for photos that revealed the SPIRIT of childhood.
So we accepted both kinds of shots and tried to include a mix of interpretations in our final selections. It was hard to decide how to do it and we hope that people are pleased with our choices even though those who weren’t selected will obviously be disappointed.
Again, our sincerest apologies to those we couldn’t fit into thee twenty final shots. We hate having to choose, but choosing is a necessary evil to post finalists.
Oh my goodness you got GREAT entries! I love all the different interpretations!
Thanks so much for including our entry. And what a difficult time you must have had! They are all wonderful.
It was sooooo hard for us to choose the finalists.
Janice and I sat and stared at photos for hours trying to choose. We tried to choose a selection of various different styles of photos.
Now that I look at the final list, I have to say I love seeing them all together. I think the collection of them portrays beautifully the ‘kid’ in all of us!
Thank you so much to all of you who sent in your photos and we hope you all have fun voting and watching to see how the votes get distributed.
And most of all when you look at the collection of photos here, remember to let the “kid” in you loose whenever you have a chance!
Susan
Wow! I’m so excited to have been chosen one of the finalists. There were so many great pictures. I can see how hard it must have been.
Great choices.
Good luck everyone!
Yay!!! Great picts, such a fun contest…good luck to the finalists!!
This was hard… all great pictures! Congrats to all the finalists!
Such fun photos! I voted for Keeping My Fingers Crossed, but Courter Blog was a close second!
I am still in shock that the picture my 5 year old took of me swinging made it into the finalists!!!! He asked me if we win can he play the Wii first
I’m still in shock that the picture my 5 year old took of me swinging made it into the finalist! He asked me if we win if he could play the Wii first
So awesome! Thank you for the contest! You guys rock!
Wow! I feel honored to be a finalist with all these other great photos. Thank you for the fun photo contest!
Good luck to everyone.
Thanks for including us at Courterblog in the finalists!
I voted. And I missed another contest.
What great pictures! They really capture the spirit of childhood. It’s been fun seeing all the pictures and having some new (to me) mom bloggers comment on my picture too. I’m still fairly new to the “blogging world” so opportunities like this to connect with other moms is awesome! I can’t wait for your next photo contest. I am a camera happy mama.
Just a thought – It would be fun to have a “Kid in You – Take 2″ photo contest/swap featuring more pictures of the mamas (and daddies). Kids are just too cute…it’s hard for the adults to compete! haha.
the duck said
What wonderful, fun, make-me-smile photos!
I was so excited to see that I’m a finalist – thank you so much for including my photo!
Yay! I see I’m a finalist. Would you correct the link from my picture? It is going to someone else’s blog.
By far A Day In The Life Of Mama is the best. We should all vote for that one. She’s so beautiful. I love you honey!!!
What fabulous pictures! Nor sure how I will ever choose!
Great picture, Good Luck!
GREAT PICTURES!
What a pleasant surprise to come here and find my picture as one of the finalist. All of the photos are great and I wish I could vote for them all.
Good luck to all the contestants!!! There are some wonderful photographers that hang out here.
I still love to finger paint and do every chance I get!
WOW. Great pictures. It was hard to vote for just one.
Changing more than diapers! What parent can’t relate to that one? LOL
Love Mommyology’s pic! Looks like she’s holding a magic wand!
These photos are great! I wish I had gotten back to blogging sooner, I would’ve entered! My fav is my blogging pal, A Day in the Life of Mama
Go Trish go!
I personally would like to give a shout out to Linneas emailed in picture! Look at that mouthful! What a great shot!
God bless-
Amanda
super cute
Tonya,
Great picture!!
Love,
Aunt Judy
My vote went to email from Kathleen. Sweet.
My vote goes to a day in the life of mama!
My vote goes to a day in the life of mama!
Congratulations to all the finalists! I have already voted for my favorite.
I voted email entry from Vicki.
My vote goes to “Changing more than diapers”
Beautiful photos, everyone!
I voted e-mail entry from Vicki
go girl!
What great photos! Wanted to let my husband vote but both last night (Sunday) and today we can’t seem to find a way to do so! I voted last week and there was a clear way to do so. Now it just shows the tallies of the votes. The contest is supposed to go until noon today. What gives?
Jo–you can only vote once per computer, which is why you only saw the votes.