The Prizes Are Rolling In!!!!!!

The first batch of prizes for our Writing Contest have started to arrive in the office. It's a huge box of games from Hasbro. They are so kewl!

Piled up around my desk are Pictureka!, CandyLand Castle Game, Electronic Monopoly and Life, Connect 4, No Brainer, Operation Rescue Kit, Chutes and Ladders, and Sorry Express.

My favorite game is the Electronic Banking Monopoly. You use credit cards instead of Monopoly money and the game pieces are things like a Segway and Space Shuttle instead of a train and plane, a little doggy in a handbag instead of the old scottie dog. It's a hoot.

These prizes are for the three boy's categories in our Writing Contest (deadline March 28 so get working on your entries, guys). Each winner will win almost $100 worth of board games donated by the wonderful folks at Hasbro (Thanks, Rebecca!)

We'll be handing these prizes out to the winners at our Summer Camps & Activities Fair (it's FREE FREE FREE) on Saturday, April 12 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Kentucky Indoor Soccer & Sports.

See you there!

Camp Fair Prizes Coming In!!!!!!

The prizes are pouring in for our upcoming Summer Camps & Activities Fair. This dragon is from Manhattan Toy Company and he is gorgeous IRL. He's big enough to ride on and sooooo incredibly soft. Glenda (one of our sales reps) keeps trying to take him home.

This is just one of dozens of prizes we'll be giving away. Our biggest is the bunkbed donated by Baby's Room & Kids Too! I'll have photos of that one up soon. But we also will have Mia, the newest American Girl doll (see her below), PLUS dozens of CDs, DVDs, video games (got a couple of Wii games!), books, games, toys and more, more, more, more!!! I'm serious folks this is a serious load of things we giveaway. I'm am literally giving out stuff almost every minute of the Fair!!!

So you know where you are going to be April 12 (from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Kentucky Indoor Soccer). Look for me - I'll be wearing a bright yellow t-shirt that says "Lexington Family Magazine" and Dana, our publisher, will probably make me wear some silly hat. I'll be the one with the microphone, yelling out prize winners names.

The Writing Contest is Officially LAUNCHED!!!

Whooo Hooo! Our 4th Annual Writing Contest is officially launched and I am really pumped. We've got great prizes lined up, teachers are already e-mailing us for more details and I can't wait to get the first entry. (check out our website http://www.lexingtonfamily.com/ for the details)

In 2005 when we launced the first Writing Contest we received 125 entries from kids in grades K-5. The next year we more than doubled that with over 300 entries. Last year we were overwhelmed by over 650 entries. If we double again this year I am in deep trouble - I might be reading 1,200 entries! Just in case, I've lined up several elementary school teachers to help me read them.

The American Girl Company is on board with us this year providing 2 of their newest Girl of the Year doll, Mia, as prizes. Mia is an adorable, freckle-faced ice skater, who comes with a beautiful skating costume and a book about her life.

Check back here soon for photos and details on our other great prizes.......