I told you earlier about my dream New Year’s Eve; a Griffins Game, hanging out on the steps of the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Amway’s Family Area, and spending the night at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel.

It’s going to come true – for my family and also for one of you readers!! I am SO excited to bring you this giveaway!

Someone reading this post right now (maybe it’s you!) will win a tickets to the New Year’s Eve Griffins Game for you and your family, an Amway bag full of great products, and a hotel room at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel. 

That is a New Year’s Eve your family will remember! Here are the rules:

1. Enter using this form.  We want to know what your favorite ‘family friendly’ thing to do in Grand Rapids.  That’s one entry (required).
2. Subscribe to BigBinder by email or by RSS feed (if you already subscribe, just let me know how).  That’s one entry.
3. Share this contest with a friend.  For each friend who enters and mentions your name, you’ll each receive one extra entry!
4. Tweet this contest using the following wording, ” I want to win an awesome #GrandRapids Family New Year’s Eve package from @bigbinderblog and @amway! http://bit.ly/f8XXrt“  That’s another entry. You can tweet once a day for an extra entry.

Every entry must be recorded on the form.  I will be choosing the winner using Random.org on December 26 and contacting the winner that day via email.  If the winner does not respond within 48 hours, another winner will be chosen.  GOOD LUCK!

****Entries are now closed, thanks!*****

The good news is that even if you don’t win – you can still get a discount on Griffins Tickets and hang out at the free Amway Family Area on the steps of the Grand Rapids Art Museum.  Amway sponsors this area and is also giving away drawstring bags with their products in it free to the first 300 families who arrive after 5:30 PM on New Year’s Eve!

Amway has generously provided a hotel room at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, an Amway Bag with products, and Grand Rapids Griffins tickets to one of my readers.  The date of the stay at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel is subject to availability. Amway has also provided me with a hotel room at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel.  All opinions are my own.

New Year’s Eve. 

It’s a little different with kids, isn’t it? We want to have fun.  Real fun. One year we were in Arizona, and we went to the Phoenix Zoo for “Early New Year’s Eve”.  It was at 12:00 noon, and other than all of the zoo staff yelling HAPPY NEW YEAR at us, nothing else happened.  The animals were completely unimpressed and frankly, so was I.  I would have expected a little something at least out of the chimpanzees.

If I close my eyes and dream, I come up with a New Year’s Eve that looks like this:

First we, go to a Griffins game. I may have mentioned a time or two that we love Griffins Games.  Then, we hang out downtown because on New Year’s Eve Grand Rapids is hoppin’.  Maybe a little too hoppin’ for kids, so we find a kid-friendly space like the Amway Family Area and camp out while we wait for the ball to drop on Rosa Parks Circle.  Then, we stay in A.P.’s single favorite place, “The Fancy Hotel” (also known as the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel”).  Sleep, swim, and head home knowing that this year we did it right.

I started working on making this happen. 

I partnered with the Griffins to get a discount on tickets for BigBinder readers.  Here is the Griffins ticketing link.  Using the code “BIGBINDER” you’ll get lower level face off seats for only $14 per ticket (regularly $17), or upper level seats for just $10 per ticket (regularly $13). In addition, the Griffins will donate $2 for every ticket sold through this link to ACCESS Food Pantry (another way to help the Holiday Basket project!)

Save three dollars a ticket and make a donation all at once. Sweet.

I got the details from my friends at Amway and they are sponsoring the Family Area in a prime location – the steps of the Grand Rapids Art Museum. 

That is front row seating for the ball drop in Rosa Parks Circle, my friends!

It’s free, safe, and for the first 300 families it will include an “Amway Blue Bag” full of goodies (my kids are already sporting these from  “Stuff the Bus“). 

And for the Fancy Hotel? Stay tuned – I’m going to tell you how to make that happen soon For now, just plan on hanging out with the BigBinder family at the Griffins and the Amway Family Area for an awesome New Year’s Eve celebration!