Happy YOUR DAY, Dads! I hope your day has been fantastic.

We here at chocri are very grateful for all our Dads as well (thanks, Dads! You rock!), and we want to share the love with our Father's Day contest - we asked you to nominate your Fathers via this blog, Facebook, Twitter and email. And without further ado, here are the Top 3 Nominations, in no particular order:

Jessica said:
My husband is the best dad in the world to our almost two year old daughter. He laughs with her, plays with her, reads to her and does anything to make her happy. Right now he is deployed with the US Army for the next year and even still, when he calls he still makes our daughter smile and laugh on the phone. Daddy is her world, and she is his. He recorded himself on a DVD reading a book to her just so she can see him and still share story time from half way around the world. He really is the greatest daddy ever.

Jenn said:
My husband is the best dad in the world because he put on a happy face, played and laughed with the kids during the most painful days after his back injury and subsequent surgery. He was unable to work for over a year because of the pain but the kids would have never known from seeing the way their dad played and laughed with them daily!

Beth said:
I am actually going a bit non-traditional here. My father wasn't present for a lot of my life, but there has always been one man that I could count on no matter what. My papau (grandfather on my mother's side) took me fishing, let me work out in his woodshop with him, and has always been with me. Because of him I have always known that whatever my dad might have done, there are wonderful men out in the world. His health has been declining lately, but he still manages to find the energy to smile and give me a hug whenever I visit.

Let us know below who you think should win - and we'll send the chocri Father's Day gift back their way! Voting begins today and lasts until Wednesday June 22nd at midnight. We are excited to see who will win, but in our eyes, all these Dads are winners already for having wonderful daughters and sons, wives and grandchildren that nominated them!!

We have perfected customized chocolate bars. We're getting really good at having tastings. Now we just have to figure this picture-taking thing out... Nevertheless, I of course want to share how our tasting this past weekend went!

The W Hotel at Times Square was so kind to host us on a (busy) Saturday night. The Living Room Lounge was beautiful. We had our own corner and set up a table not only with delicious chocolate but also with our fresh-off-the-printing-press banner that Build-A-Sign made for us (a separate post on that tomorrow).

While we were setting up, regular guests of the lounge started coming by and checking the chocolate out, and soon a nicely sized crowd both of chocri connoisseurs and newbies was tasting our new recommended creations and meeting Michael. I'm glad everyone got to meet the inventor of design-your-own chocolate bars - as you can see in the picture on the right, he really loves his chocri bars (I know how he feels).

We were able to share some of the new Recommended Creation concepts with you- "Pure Relaxation" was one of the favorites, "Pure Sex" will get a little more of a spicy kick to it, and the "Beautiful Skin" Chocolate Bar (loaded with toppings that are good for your skin) was a huge success as well. More on that later!

For now, thank you all for coming. We love meeting you in person, and we had a great time hanging out with you and eating chocolate. Thank you also for all your advice on creating the perfect recommended creations! More images can be found in our flickr album. Until next time!

UPDATE: The winner of the three chocolate bars from the random drawing was Andy Shaffer. Congrats!

Do you know urtak? It's a platform for you to ask and answer questions. You can ask any question you want, and many others like you are sharing their opinion. Nearly 5 million answers have already been collected on urtak.

One of the categories (called "urtaks") is chocolate. Guess who made it :)

Well, I thought I'd bring it to you here in the blog, with this nifty widget:
(Enjoy!)

Chocolate

Of course, we'd be thrilled if you asked some questions, too! Just click on the tab Ask and go at it. Thanks!

Hello everyone. Great news! Thanks to your contribution, we can now give our packaging phrases to print, so that soon you will receive chocolate bars with your own packaging phrase in them.

Below are the Top 10 Packaging Phrases you determined:

Michaela wins the $50 coupon, Charnell the $20 gift certificate, and Michaela Number 2 can play with $10 chocri credit. If you want to make sure your chocri order has the new packaging, wait for a blog post on the topic - I'll make sure I'll let you know when we have them set to go.

Thanks everyone for contributing - we had some great ideas and many votes. We at chocri are determined to be and do the best we can, and we can only do that with your help. Thank you!