It's Christmas Time!

Last week we were given a gingerbread house by our activities committee to make during our team parties. We had a meeting to decide what we were going to do with this new challenge. (Remember Halloween a few posts back, we thought we were going to win and we lost. Boo on the judging.) This is the finished product. In case you can't see what it is, it's a gingerbread trailer park. But since we didn't want to offend anybody, we changed it to the redneck Christmas. It is pretty funny and inventive.

This is a bad picture of us getting everything ready for the final touches. I won't tell you how we "bent" the rules to make sure everything stayed together, just know that we put everything together on Wednesday and decorated Thursday without worrying about our trailers breaking. You should all be impressed with my frosting making skills. I guess all those hours at the gingerbread party with my mom's family finally paid off. Thanks for teaching me how to make gingerbread houses. This one was fun because we through out all the traditional ideas about it and created something fun.
Here it is, the finished product with our 3 trailers, green grass and random assortment of redneck accessories. We got creative and built telephone poles, dog houses, train tracks, on the roof of the gingerbread house is a light up sleigh and reindeer. Below are some pictures of the finer details of the trailer park. Remember that I work for Marriott......when you see the Hilton sign on a trailer.

Yup, that's Libbi's Monster Truck. She picked it out all by herself and then told Kyle last night when the monster truck commercial come on that she wanted to to. I told him he was more than welcome to take her, but I wouldn't be going.


We did a good job, now we'll have to see who wins. A big thank you to Somer for putting it all together, Jess and Daysi and Leigh for all there help and the rest of our team who put their own touches here and there. Oh yeah, and to our manager and team lead for being so supportive of this activity, in more than one way.

Saturday afternoon, we had all this freshly fallen snow and I happened to glance out the window to see how much snow we had gotten and saw this on the front lawn.

We decided it was a paragon falcon and it was eating some type of bird, since there were feathers all over the new white snow. It was scary neat. A once in a life time moment, but it kinda freaked me out a little. Shortly after I took the picture, he picked up his prey and flew to the tree to finish eating...What a weekend!