Gingerbread House Contest!

This year, while with Reid's family for Christmas, we spent one day making Gingerbread houses!  We decided to add a twist, and make it a little competitive.  There were 9 of us, so we split into teams of three (by random draw) and each got to work!  First we put the houses together...

Team #1: Becky, Rhett, & Gram (not pictured here)

Team #2: Jennifer, Reid & Kendall

Team #3: Ryan, Ashley & Caeden

Once the houses were put together, we took a lunch break and let them dry...

(FYI: The "childish-looking" house on the far right is Rhett's team.  His strategy was to make it look like a kid worked on it...so people would vote for the kid...and he would win....

And he did come in second place...)

That afternoon, it was back to work!  This time, decorating with candy!  Caeden and Callie were ready before anyone else....taste-testing everything of course!

Lovin' her some M&M's!

Everyone working hard!

Caeden's house in progress.  

He smeared the icing on the roof,

and made the wreath.

Nonni & Callie

Still decorating!

And these are the finished houses....we posted this picture on Facebook, and let the voting begin!

At the end of the voting, house #2 won by a landslide!  The fake-child-like-looking house (#1) came in second!  And poor #3 only got 2 votes.... :(   But that's okay- we had a great time and I think we have started a new tradition!