"Gingerbread" houses

My hat goes off to all you people who make gingerbread houses from scratch.  I do not think I have it in me.   So, we used graham crackers and a hot glue gun!

It worked very well.  Since my family was here, we had plenty of adults to help my over-excited and sugared-up children.

William was fine with whatever his Aunt Maddy chose to do.  "How about putting a life saver here?"  she'd ask.  "Yeah, that's right!" William would say, over and over again.

Ashley and Aunt Amanda worked together in perfect harmony, as always.

William lost interest in the house (cabin?  bungalow?) after a while and focused completely on how much candy he could siphon from everyone's building supplies.

Everett was especially proud of his rainbow swimming pool and high dive.  He refused to eat any candy off his house; instead he picked over everyone else's house and complained indignantly over the next few days whenever he saw candy missing from his house's facade.  This of course encouraged Joel to specifically target Everett's creation.  

If we use graham crackers next year, I am definitely using my hot glue gun again to put them together.  They were easy and turned out pretty cute!