Fun with Gingerbread (2011)

As some of you may know, we have a tradition of building a large-scale gingerbread house each Christmas with the clan back in Georgia.  Here are the results of this year's build-out:

Bradley's self-constructed house:

Bethany's self-decorated house:

The large group house, built by Brandon, Donnie, and Chris with decorating by Brandi:

Now for those who aren't familiar with this tradition, there is always an obvious question of what to do with the various houses once you've finished building them.  They don't last that long due to the Georgia humidity, and with four boys around the first year (I include the adult "boys" in that count), we quickly came up with the proper answer:

BLOW IT UP!!!

We'll post additional photos soon.