Gingerbread houses

This year Christmas is falling two days before we move all our belongings into storage...and so this is our Christmas tree.  Isn't it cute?  This is a tree that my Grandma H. gave me last year.  It has fiber-optics in it and changes color.  We put it up in our bedroom and love to look at the lights at night before going to sleep.

Sunday evening we went over to a friends' house.  She had her college sons home and decided to make keep tradition alive and make gingerbread houses (with graham crackers).  I haven't made a gingerbread house in such a long time...probably since I was a small child and I couldn't believe how excited I was to make one.  The above picture is mine.  I actually got the idea from one of the temples in Germany.  I can't remember which one, I just remember looking through the Ensign that focused on temples and seeing a similar design.

And this is SM's gingerbread house.  Notice the "grass" and the bushes on the side of the house.  Very cute!

He really did want to start eating it right away.  He did wait a couple of days.

And here I am with my house.  I am so proud!  (Notice that my house has some topiary bushes in the front...those are not green snowmen).