January 6, 2011

and the winner is...

The Annual Gingerbread House Contest

Rem and I love having this party, we wish our house was bigger so we could invite more people.  I think this is the 5th year of doing this??  Everyone keeps getting more and more creative.  The new comers don't realize how big this compition gets.  We work on these "houses" for at least 2 hours!  It's a lot of fun!
 Some of the group getting started.

Paxton enjoyed his time eating his dinner and then crawling around on the floor visiting with everyone until it was time for bed.  I was surprised he slept through the rest of the party because we were LOUD.

And the CRAZY dog stuck either outside or downstairs so she wouldn't bug everyone.

My sister Erika and her date.   (They got 2nd place)

My sister Jamie and her boyfriend (now fiancee) Dan.  (They got 3rd place)
Post on the proposal of these two love birds coming soon :)

My brother Trevor and his wife Sandee.

My friend Alisa and her boyfriend Kevin.

Rem and I.


We called our neighbors over to vote on their favorite...

 and Trev and Sandee got 1st Place!
They called theirs 'Tangled' not having seen the movie.  On the right is the tower with Rapunzel and her long hair and on the left is a guy getting hung..haha.  Their castle looked awesome!


2 comments:

Mel said...

How fun!!! I am afraid of what mine might look like; we don't have much luck with ginger bread houses. Those look awesome. What an awesome tradition.

The Crayks! said...

Mindy, that looks like sooo much fun. What a cute idea!!