This is why someone created a kit...

Amber had a gingerbread-house-making-party. I asked her one day, do I need to bring anything? like a kit? oh NO, she said, we make ours from SCRATCH!!! has anyone reading this ever attempted to make a house out of graham crackers and icing? no easy feat! the houses kept falling over. the roofs didn't fit "just right", so mine had a half-inch gap in the roof lol! i tried to fill it in with gumdrops. note the use of "green" on my house...i got this far with it and was done! Robert was, of course, ruining pictures, one of his fave pastimes. Amber and Lindsey were hard at work with their decor...and Deborah, well she just took the blue ribbon for her work of art! sorry i didn't get a pic of it, but in her little creative mind she made her "house" a beach house, and sprinkled yellow sprinkles everywhere around it for sand, and then made water with the blue sprinkles! she then took green wrappers off the hershey kisses and created a palm tree top and put that on top of her house. next she took an un-used graham cracker and shaped it to look sort of like a surfboard, and continued to wrap that in purple hershey kiss wrappers....and last i saw of it she had made a dock in the water out of red gumdrops and red licorace!!! i'm sure Amber has a pic, it was really neat. Amber, I love you, but next year i'm just gonna come for the fellowship!! :O)