Gingerbread Houses

Round two of Gingerbread making went WAY more smoothly than the first.  We had great company too!  Aunt Sarah, Charlie, Alvin, Savannah, Aunt Heidi and John, Uncle Steve and Jauslin all came!  We were much more prepared this time, I hot glued the grahams ahead of time.  I followed the blueprints the kids had drawn up before school :).  I LOVE how well gluing them works.  I really loved the frosting I made this year as well.  I think it would have been good enough for constructing them. I  need to remember the recipe for next year:

1 bag powdered sugar

1 cup water

8 egg whites

1 tsp of cream of tartar

Here's the pics:

This is Jauslin's (Steve will claim it too, but he didn't have anything to do with it!)

Kelly's work of art.  She really goes all out.

Noah's Tower.  I was really amazed with how his turned out considering he had zero help.  I loved watching him and Charlie with the cake bags of frosting!  Good times.  He sure got into it and had a good time too.  He was really proud of his work :).

Bradley's Masterpiece. I can't believe I didn't get a picture of his army of gummi bears on the back.  That's disappointing.  He did a great job though!

Luke's was so meticulously decorated!  I couldn't believe the time and attention he put into his!  It turned out really cute!  Even the inside!  Not sure where that picture went...

Mine :)

Charlie's

This is Heidi's sorry excuse for a decorated house... unfinished.  She did however patent the green thing on the roof.

Oh, and I just noticed you can see the back of Bradley's in this picture!  Yay~!  He'll be so happy.  See the army of Gummi bears!  

This was Erika's after she had decorated and then eaten all the candy off of it.  I wasn't quick enough!

Alvin's

And last, but not least, Charity's!  She did such a cute job too!  

Here's the inside of Luke's :)  So creative!

After the houses, we played Heidi's White Elephant game.  It was a candy/snack version since I vetoed the real version.  It was pretty fun, but ended abruptly with some whining, crying unhappy Maynes kids.  Apparently we haven't learned how to play this game like good sports yet. They must be human after all :).  Something to work on.  Hopefully we didn't spoil all the fun for everyone else.  John ended up with the Lindt truffles, that's all I remember.