I am thankful for all of you! I love and am truly touched when someone writes an personal email or comments on how the stories I've shared have motivated them to go outdoors with their family. Sometimes social media can feel really impersonal but I have found that the #OutdoorFamilies community is really supportive and awesome to get to know.

With that said, it's time of year again when a collective of outdoor family bloggers, sponsoring companies including myself, Chasqui Mom, want to thank you for spending quality family time outdoors. All of us are so thankful to all families, big and small, that are instilling the love of the outdoors in your children. We want to enable you to continue enjoying the outdoors together so we have over 30 sponsors with great prizes for you to enter!

Thanks to Beachfront Baby water carriers, I had the opportunity to be one of their ambassadors this year. Baby Pacha and I have thoroughly enjoyed both Beachfront Baby's Ringsling and wrap water carriers in and out of the water! They are gladly participating in this contest and now you have a chance to win one of your own!

Since I didn't have a chance to celebrate my 3rd year "Bloggerversary" this past August, I would love to show my gratefulness to one of my followers with a chance to win a US National Parks Annual Pass. I love National Parks and I want everyone to have opportunity to enjoy them.

Good luck on our photo contest and remember Chasqui Mom's motto....

“Loving nature through hiking, backpacking and anything outdoors as a family.”

Enter to win the #ThankfulForFamilies #OutdoorFamilies giveaway!

Steps to Enter:

Post a NEW photo of your outdoor family on Instagram making sure to include both #ThankfulForFamilies AND #OutdoorFamilies and tell us why you love your family!
Follow ALL of our awesome participating hosts to win! Tap on my (@ChasquiMom) to see where to go next. Follow that host, and find THEIR awesome prize in their feed. Tap on their photo to see where to go next. Repeat until you have come full circle.
Check out ALL the awesome giveaways and make a comment (one per photo) on the prize(s) you want to win!

Giveaway entry rules:

Contest will run from November 19-30, 2015
Entrants must be a resident of US or Canada.
Entrants' Instagram account must be a public account.
Entrants MUST follow all the participating bloggers on Instagram (listed below) to be eligible to win any of the prizes: @mommyhiker, @jennifer_fontaine, @outdoorfammag, @adventuretykes, @natureforkids, @currentlywandering, @meghanjward, @mtnmamatales, @mountainmomYYC, @pedaladventures, @playoutsidegal, @rockieschick22, @mrmoosefish, @chasquimom, @activekidsclub, @mountainmomtots, @co_mtnmom, @familyadventureblogger, @valinreallife (look to our posts in Instagram to link up directly!).
Entrants must post a new, original and taken by you, photo (a re-posted photo or tagging an old photo will disqualify you) to Instagram of their family, or members of their family, outdoors.
All photos entered in the contest must be tagged with BOTH #OutdoorFamilies AND #ThankfulForFamilies.
Entrants must comment on Instagram on the specific prize they are entering to win. Photographs of prizes will be distributed among all the hosts' Instagram feeds. Entrants need to only comment ONCE per prize. Additional comments DO NOT equal additional entries.
Entrants may post a photo once per day to their Instagram feeds for additional entries, up to 12 entries total. All photos must use the two contest hashtags.
All photo entries must be submitted by 10 p.m. MST on November 30, 2015.
All winners will be chosen randomly from all submitted entries at the end of the week and announced on each of the blogs after December 1, 2015. Notifying comments will also be left on the winning photos on Instagram.
Host will do their best to contact winners. If prizes are not claimed within 48 hours of notification, the prize will go to the next winner.
This giveaway is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Instagram.