[Faux] Gingerbread Houses

We decided to decorate gingerbread houses this year.  We did it at my parents' house 2 years ago (thanks to my sister Amy!) and even though Eli was only 2, he really liked it.  I knew he and Connor would love it and we all had a great time being creative.  I went the lazy route and just used graham crackers, but do I feel bad about that?  Not at all. :)  And thanks to Winco's bulk bins we were able to get a large variety of candy without breaking the bank.  It was hard for me to buy all that candy!  But I sucked it up and did it.  As it turns out, the kids ate way more of the pretzels than they did of the candy (by choice) as we were making them.  Happy day.

Here are our masterpieces:

 I helped Connor do his and he just told me where to put the "glue" as they called it, and then he went to town.  I was pretty impressed!  He really liked the jelly beans, can you tell? :)

 And Eli's...I think he added a few more things after I took these pictures.

 Can you guess Eli's favorite color?

 And Jeremy's...he was helping Eli and only finished half of his, but he was okay with that.

 And mine.

 And the whole village...

We had a fun time!  I think we'll definitely do it again next year.