And the Winner Is . . .

About a week before the submission deadline (which was 4/30), I took the kids up to Thousand Hills State Park for a photoshoot. The German manufacturer, Schleich, was sponsoring a photocontest. The theme was farm life, and the rules required the use of their figurines. Because we are HUGE fans of Schleich products, we thought we would give it a shot. If nothing else, we would have a lot of fun creating various farm scenes together as a family -- which was an absolute blast, by the way!

While in Seattle, WA earlier this week, I received a phone call from a very excited kid! He read me the following e-mail:

"On behalf of Schleich North America let me begin by thanking you for participating and making the first Schleich Hobby Farm Home Contest an enormous success.

I'm very happy to announce that your photo has been selected as one of our ten winners.

We are very excited to send out your prize, a new Schleich Red Barn. In order to do so as quickly as possible, we need the attached form completed and returned within ten days.

Congratulations once again for your winning submission."

Here is the winning picture, as well as a few other favorites from our photoshoot. Keep in mind that Caleb was the one who composed and shot the winning picture. Yes, he is becoming quite the fledgling National Geographic photographer (no complaints here)!

Winning picture!


Submitted one day late unknowingly (i.e., got hung up in the "outbox").


A slight deviation from the Farm theme.