Gingerbread, gingerbread, gingerbread.

All I have been doing for the last little while is Gingerbread. I am the coordinator for Lakeview Ward and, well, I got some good advice to document it all so here goes.....


This is some of the figures the Achievement Days Girls (8-11 years old) did. I think they are kind of cute!


I learned on the internet to put cans on the sides to hold the gingerbread together while the icing dries. It works pretty well.

Here is the finished church. I made the template myself and put the candy stained glass windows in too. In this picture, it is lighted from inside.


It was Mia's idea to do the roof in Big Red gum and she was right. She worked on that part and the other decorations with me. It was fun and one of my few social interactions other than on the phone for the week!

Yeah! Here I am "working" on the house. Actually, the picture was taken after it was mostly done.


The Nativity Scene part of it. Kristen did the figures and I think she did a great job. I did the stable. She did a better job than I did. Too bad her figures have such a mediocre backdrop.


Sister Roberts did this one. I think it is amazing!

Heidi A. did this one. She thought it was awful. Whatever, girlfriend!

Packing it all up to go work on it at the church. It looks pretty good already!

This is the scene before we took it to the Trail Center. I love the cobble stone road Pat, Anna Lou, and Denise did. Do you like my sugar cube fountain?

Carmen loved this little snowman on top of this icing hill where fondant kids are playing. She wanted to "buy" it.

So here is half of the finished product.

Here is the other half of it with snow powdered sugar snow sprinkled on it.

Here is a close up of my fountain. The picture doesn't look very good. I have to admit. I think it looks better in real life. This is before the sugar cube rocks were put in to surround it.

Archie's work had a huge Halloween Festival for the kids. The different floors competed. His floor did the Wizard of Oz. Here is the house on the feet of the Wicked Witch of the East

Here is the Mayor with a sign that says she is not only dead but really sincerely dead.

Here is a picture of the guys singing that they are the Lollipop Guild. Isn't it amazing how this doesn't even look like an office and they went all out.

Kaitlin is a bride and Carmen is Jasmine. They are here with the scarecrow.

Here is the tin man with a living tree. I forgot about that in the movie until I saw it move.

Here is the cowardly lion with Kaitlin saying that girls scare him. She is enjoying it.



They even did the yellow brick road with the little twirl to begin it. My girls loved all this!

This wicked witch was sprayed by the Dorothy below and pretended to melt.

This Dorothy gave us cute "melted" chocolate wicked witch hats out of this caldron. They were those cookies with chocolate bottoms had a pretzel and a curved top part dipped chocolate part. Quite original.

They even included the flying monkeys.


See, this doesn't look like an office. People are still working behind these curtains--not any with children though.

This is a great entrance to the Emerald City. The guys in the background are singing that song and getting all primped up. They had a bouncy house in there for the kids.
All in all, it was a blast and the girls had a lot of fun.

Busy Autumn

This is the smaller children on a tree branch while we were camping with our neighbors.

We had the golf course to ourselves at Mahoney Park. The girls enjoyed it a lot. Our neighbors were so nice to include us.


This is on the hike that we took. Then we climbed the tower. My neighbor, Kelly, said, "Isn't this like kids to hike so that you can climb a tower." I laughed. It is true. They DO NOT GET TIRED. Actually, they were impressed that we never had to carry Carmen. She was a trooper!


Here are the "Super Kids". They were pretending to be super heroes at the top of the tower and on the whole hike.