Gingerbread Houses

Every year my Aunt makes a bunch of gingerbread houses and has her family over to decorate them. She kindly invited us this year and Esther was so excited about the event she brought me a paper and asked me to write it down so that we make sure we won't forget. Saturday morning at 10.
We each did a house and we thought we were pretty good until we saw my cousins do theirs (they've been at this competition a lot longer). I wish I had pictures of their houses! Ours were pretty good.

Here is John's house. You can tell he put a lot of effort into it (ha ha ha). He awarded himself with the best roof but as you can see in the next picture his house did not qualify.


This is my gingerbread house with the lovely rice chex roof. My fruit tree on the side was awesome until one of the orange runts fell off. Notice the especially aweome marshmallow (snow) ground.

Lucy had a great time. She even exclaimed at one point, "This is a fun day!!!" I guess our normal days are not quite so "fun." Lucy's house turned out as any 2 year-old's house might (an assortment of candy haphazardly placed all over the house with half the decorative candy in the belly rather then on the house).

Lastly, here's is Esther's creation. She saw my cousin carefully cute up oreas and layer them on his roof like tiles so she though she would attempt the oreo roof as well. Fortunately, nobody has to live in this house because it looks like it just came through a Candyland hurricane. Of course, I still think it's adorable and she was so ecstatic when she found out that we even got to take our houses home!!!

The girls had a fantastic time decorating their houses and then playing with my cousin's little girls. It was a perfect Saturday, especially after BYU won. Everyone in the Thompson family was perfectly content!!