Gingerbread!!!

We decided to enter the first annual Starkville Festival of Trees Gingerbread contest. We'd never made gingerbread houses before or baked gingerbread at all for that matter. So we took the stuff above (except for the horse, I cut it all out free hand) and with a little help from Jay and the girls,



Made it into this:

And this:


and won!!!!


We took first place for our farm in the children 8 - 12 years old division. All of the entries were really, really good so I don't know how we got chosen. They were all family projects, gingerbread houses made by parents with assistance from kids. Then there were some professional ones. They were fun to look at too. Anyway, we got a nice blue ribbon. The houses were all auctioned off at the party Friday nite. Ours was bought, but I'm not sure by who. All proceeds went to the United Way of North Mississippi. It was a lot of fun!!! We're looking forward to next year.