Gingerbread Houses

We traveled down to Southern Utah to visit with SM's younger sister and her family.  She made gingerbread so that we and another two friends could make a gingerbread house.  SM and I have only made one other gingerbread house in our married life and so we were a bit slow with our ideas.  We watched the other two groups for some ideas.

Part of the fun of putting together a gingerbread house is eating some of the goodies while putting them on the gingerbread house.  Just ask my nieces!

SM was the architect of the gingerbread houses.

Look at those cool logs on the log cabin.

Here are the final three houses.  Unfortunately you can't see all the detail to all these houses.  I will show each house in individual photos and mention my favorite parts about each house.

This house was done my by sister-in-law's friends.  The front "lawn" is covered in rabbits.  I love that the sidewalk is made of Nerds and the roof is made from Bottle Caps.

Here is my sister-in-law's family's gingerbread house.  I love the roof tiles that alternate between red and green.  I also loved the pond that had a small waterfall on one side.  And aren't those fish cute?  There are marshmellow men on the property.  On one side of the house is a "wood" pile that has a bit of "snow" on the top of the wood.  I love it!

And here is our gingerbread house.  SM did such a great job on the icicyles on the side of the house.  The sidewalk paving stones are actually coconut marshmellows and my favorite is the tree in the front yard.  The tree is made up from a Twix bar that has pretzels for branches.  It was a great piece of art...which SM ate as soon as he waited an appropriate amount of time.

And here's a view from the back of each of those gingerbread houses.