Annual Gingerbread Houses

The challenge was issued. Who could build the better GingerBread House? Devin and Damen were taking on Quinn and Dillon.

Devin is working on putting Santa's Sleigh on the roof, two mini candy canes with a hersey bar rectangle. Damen is busy adding "lights" to the icing on the roof. Here is Devin and Damen's finished house. I was wondering if less really is more or is "more, really MORE". We finally had to tell them to STOP as the sides and roof were caving in from too much weight (uh candy). They had a great time decorating and eating the goodies.

Dillon and Quinn did much planning. They had to figure out where they would put all the goodies before actually committing to it, whereas, Devin and Damen just went for it.

Dillon and Quinn's finished house. They took FOREVER, but it turned out great. Not sure if you can tell or not but the two gingerbread men in the front are having a snowball (marshmellow) fight. I thought that was very creative.

They are both displayed and believe it or not still have all the candy attached!!

If I was a turkey...

Damen's story that he wrote on Monday. If I was a turkey.... Below the picture is the translated version!I will get a tree cutter and chop down the fence. I will run and run to the mall. I will go in the toy section and pretend like I am a toy.

The creativity it what I enjoy the most!

This Thanksgiving it will be me, Boo, Dillon, Devin, Damen, Uncle Shane, Grandma Renee, and Grandpa Kim.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Trick or Treating

Grandma and I could not be left out of the fun! No we did not collect candy, we helped carry the bags as they got quite full rather quickly. About 5 minutes around the neighborhood Dillon ran into a group of friends from school and ditched us. However, he actually got home before we did so they must not have been much fun :) Boo, Grandpa Kim, and Uncle Shane stayed home and handed out candy. Uncle Shane came and picked up Damen after only a couple of blocks of Trick-or-Treating, guess his bag was full enough. Devin wanted to keep on going until his bag was full to the top. It was a beautiful night, no wind, and little chill factor so we were able to keep on going, about 1 1/2 hours worth. We didn't make it to a completely full bag before it was time to call it a night. Believe me he got plenty of candy. Damen is a little Devil (pretty fitting), Dillon is an Old Man, and Devin is the Grim Reaper. Quinn decided against going...must be an age thing? I thought I went when I was in high school??