Gingerbread Houses

Every year since we've been married, Matt and I have decorated a gingerbread house together. I know, it sounds childish, but it's addicting. (Just ask Gareth and Kari.) This year was no different. Well okay, a little different...this year we got together with some friends in our ward to decorate gingerbread houses. I've never seen so much candy on one table in my life! Too bad I didn't get a picture. We had quite the spread! I ended up with lots of random pictures and not many of people, but here's a sneak peek at a few of the houses.

Runner-up in the decorating contest
Oops, I don't even have a picture of the winning house!

As you can tell, our friends are quite the decorators!

I think we'll have to make this an annual event!

This year Zac actually got into decorating the house, too, so we had plenty of helping hands. He had been begging me for weeks to let him put together our house. Everytime he noticed the kit in the pantry, he'd say, "Ohhh! We forgot to put this together. We better hurry! We need to put the candy house together!" He was so excited when I told him the day had finally arrived. He was even more excited when he saw all the candy sitting out. It was like sugar heaven!


Some of us didn't finish decorating our houses that night, so we had to finish the next day.
Here is the finished product...





Not bad, if I do say so myself!
Strange thing, though...candy is mysteriously disappearing from our house. Zac says that he doesn't know what's happening to it, but the smears of blue and red on his mouth tell me otherwise. Something tells me our gingerbread house won't make it until Christmas this year. :)

Thanks everyone for a fun night!