This year we put together a couple of great gingerbread houses. Every year we build a gingerbread house with my side of the family, but this year Krisi saw a contest to build a gingerbread home of an Ivory home and decided that she wanted to enter it. Krisi's sister lives in an Ivory home, so I designed the gingerbread and we spent a Saturday building it with her family.
Luke and Alex loved eating all the candy!
The final product
I think the house turned out very nice, and was fun to put together.
The official entry into the contest:
When we entered this contest we thought it would be a lot of amateur gingerbread homes, but we were wrong. All the homes looked professionally done, and were immaculate. It made us feel pretty discouraged that our home looked so sloppy in comparison. I think that this will be the last gingerbread contest that I enter into.
Gingerbread Houses Part 2:
The following week we built gingerbread houses with my family. This year I decided to make the Salt Lake Tabernacle. After all the hard work that we did the week before, I didn't have the energy to try to make the dome out of gingerbread; so I cheated and made it out of a disposable turkey pan.
Some of the kids helped with the decorating of the gingerbread (but most just ate the candy.)
Luke preferred to play with his cousins in the music room.
I was very pleased at how nice the tabernacle turned out. I especially liked how easy it was to build.
We had a lot of family building houses this year, and they turned out great.
Merry Christmas to All!
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