Well, the holidays have hit the Crowell Household with a vengeance...all of a sudden it is "go time". Time to decorate trees, bake cookies, Christmas lists, Christmas cards, shopping, wrapping, school programs, gingerbread houses, and many, many parties. Saturday we participated in our annual gingerbread house making contest with our neighbors from our old house. Last year the Crowells were the winners so we were hoping for repeat this year. But oh, it wasn't so. We actually won the Charlie Brown award which is given to the WORST house. And in all honesty, WE even voted for ourselves. Ha! Oh, well it was fun. This year our theme was a mall. Aaron quickly named our mall "The Mall of Shanty Town!" because it looked so bad. As you can see, it was awful. Congrats to The Catchings for their "Christmas in July" theme. Watch out next year, we will be back with a sure winner. We already have blueprints drawn up!
After losing this contest we quickly rushed home to meet some of our friends (some guests were already at our house...we really need to change our garage door code!) for the MU/OU football game which made us losers AGAIN! This loss hurt more than the gingerbread contest though. Ouch!
Our last party of the weekend was our annual tree decorating party with just Aaron and I and the girlies. We always get our tree from Manninos, eat turkey, ham, cheese and crackers, Fitz's root beer and attempt to decorate the tree. This usually turns into a "dance party" as the girls like to call it and very little tree decoarting! As you can see this is exactly what happened this year but we also added a wrestling match at the end. Their poor husbands someday are going to be shocked at our family traditions because they are WILD!! I pity the man that comes from a small, quiet family because he won't stand a chance. I pray for them daily!!
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So where is the gingerbread in your gingerbread house? It looks more like cardboard????
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