Gingerbread houses

Well we attepmpted to make gingerbread houses, my little sister paige definitely one this contest nobody else could get theirs to stick together, my brother ty just gave up and ate all of his candy, and mylee just thought she would put all of our houses candy in the bowl of frosting and then eat it, and creat as big of a mess as possible, but we had a great time, you can't have fun in life unless you get messy in the process!!!

Thanksgiving at the Spackman residence

Well this year i decided to take upon me the task of making Thanksgiving dinner, so on saturday I spent most of the day baking pies, and getting groceries for Sunday's dinner, (My family always does a late thanksgiving to try and make it so the whole family can be there) I had quite the pie disaster, i have been baking so many pies lately you think i would have it down to an art, but knowing me, something bad has to happen so after completeing my pies, i made 1 blueberry, 1 apple, 2 pumpkin, 1 lemon merangue, and 1 cherry pie, i was lying in bed trying to sleep and i realized that i had forgotton to add the sugar tot he pumpking pie( how do you forget the sugar, well leave it to me to make that mistake) it was to late to go to the store, so in the morning i told my mom of my pie disaster, she just laughed and we both search the house high and low to find another can of pumpkin so we could start over, well hooray we found one small can so i was able to make one normal pumkin pie, well, we also decided to experiment we scooped out the already cooked pumpkin pie filling and put them in a bowl, added the sugar another egg and some extra evaporated milk and made some new pies out of it, when they were all cooked the "twice baked pumpkin pies looked absolutely horrible, but my mom and I put on our brave faces and took a bite and to our surprise they didn't taste bad at all, it was a little thicker than a normal pumpkin pie, but it almost tasted the same. So if anybody ever makes this mistake (which i am sure none of you ever will) and your not going for a pie beauty contest, then this actually works out pretty good. So I cooked the turkey, my brother and my mom made the marshmellow yams, and keely and I peeled potatoes and made mashed potatoes, paige set the table, and we added a few other items to our menu and then the family started coming, my sister amber made rolls and dinner was perfect, however, nobody in my family other than my mom and I dared to eat my delicious pumpkin pies. but oh well more for me!!! Then we all sat around the table and played games, Tyler and Amber taught us a new game called old margarete, it is a game a pure luck, but it was really fun, as usual, i lost every round, but i enjoyed my self, so other than my pie disaster, thanksgiving dinner was a big success