Who are Your

Family Favorites?

ANNOUNCING THE BIRMINGHAM PARENT 2016 FAMILY FAVORITES AWARD WINNERS Compiled By Lori Pruitt, Bethany Adams Hunley & Carol Muse Evans We’re all about favorites, especially our children. Whether it’s a favorite color, ice cream place, place to have a birthday party or your favorite dentist or orthodontist, every kid and parent knows just what they like and why. Sometimes as a parent we rely on friends and family to tell us what is the best of the best. Many times you are introduced to a favorite by word of mouth. Or you see an ad for a spot, go there, and then share with everyone else how great it is. This is what the Birmingham Parent Family Favorites Awards is all about. The longest running contest of its sort in the Birmingham area, we do it totally with you and for you. You nominate and choose the winners. This year we’ve added a few new categories, too! It’s an open forum – we didn’t give you the choices, you made them yourselves. We’ve tallied the numbers and here are the results. In cases where voting was close, we also chose an “honorable mention” or two. Know they were close in the running to get this honor – it’s no consolation prize! And like last year, we’ve grouped the winners into easy categories for you. We hope you will keep this article all year as a reference to things to do and places to go in Birmingham, and if you have a favorite that didn’t make it this year, be sure to vote for them in 2017. This article will always be available at www.birminghamparent. com as an easy reference, and our winners’ websites are hot-linked for easy use. And be sure you tell the winners that you read about them in Birmingham Parent! And congratulations to our random prize winner, Alaina Morgan of Birmingham, who won a trip for 4 to Sevierville, TN.

AND THE WINNERS ARE….

Photo by Visual Arts by Jessica