Birthdays and gingerbread houses

We had my brother's birthday party this week and Madeline was in charge of the camera.  As  you can see in the picture below we had to have her pony in almost every picture.  I will spare you from viewing all of them.  

Here is my brother with his fine jacket.  Yes ladies he is very available.  

This was the day we woke up to no power.    I have decided that what I really want for Christmas is a generator.     Madeline was pretty excited because she had all kinds of ideas of how to keep us busy.   Coloring, playing dolls, etc.  She loved it.    

We had bought one of those pre made gingerbread houses a few days earlier so we had fun putting it together.  

We had bring in Dad to construct the home since that is what he does.