Wow.  So many people got involved in our Photo Contest!  We had 2836 votes cast.  Thanks for voting and for getting your friends and family members involved as well.  It's been great to see the traffic on our website go way up as people came to vote and then stayed to explore all that we have to offer.  We're so glad to have the chance share not only the fun and beauty involved in the photo contest but also the great resources we have here on our website.

As far as we were concerned, every photo we received was a "winner" and we would have had a really tough time determining the best ones.  Luckily we had your votes to rely on!

And now (imagine a drum roll here) we'd like to announce our three Grand Prize Winners:

Congratulations to:  Judy Kay Kyker, Meg Talbot and Macy Robison

These grand-prize winners will receive either A Mother's Book of Secrets by Shawni Pothier and Linda Eyre or a set of Learning Circle Start-Up Materials (a $50 value).

Scroll down to see three slideshows including:

• Our 35 Photo Contest Winners (with several photos receiving the same number of votes, we did 35 rather than the 30 photos we originally planned to honor). For each of these winning photos, we've includedthe name of the mom who submitted it.  Please email Saren at saren@powerofmoms.com if you'd like a different name/company name associated with your photo when we use it on our website (sorry if we got your name wrong - we just used the names that came with the emails!).
• 30 Honorable Mention Photos.  We couldn't quite stop after the top 35.  We hope to use many of these photos on our website as well as time goes by.
• Great Candid Photos.  We had to also share some of our favorite snapshots that captured great little "mom moments" that we can all relate to.  Many of these photos will also be featured on our website.

In the next few months, we'll be featuring some of the stories behind the photos that were submitted in our new Images of Motherhood section.

Thanks again to all who submitted photos and all who participated in the voting.  We're so excited to enhance our website with many beautiful new images of motherhood!