We usually make our gingerbread houses out of graham crackers, because that's the easy way out. This year my bestie and I decided to get our families together and make our houses together. We made a deal that she would make the gingerbread/frosting and we would bring the candy. I think I got the sweet end of the deal.
The kids had so much fun decorating our house (especially Lincoln... he loves this kind of stuff.) I did the frosting and let them go to town with the candy. I decided to let go of making it 'the perfect' gingerbread house and gave them most of the creative power on what candy went where.
Lincoln is a fantastic storyteller. He decided that we needed to have the gingerbread marshmallows be the guys that lived there. Some of them were having a snowball fight in the backyard, some were playing hide-and-seek and a few of them were even building a snowman.
He is the only one that stayed with me till the end. The girls got bored about halfway through and went back to their dolls and Graham was too busy eating the candy to actually decorate with it.
Our finished house. I love it.
And the back... a few of the gingerbread men and gumballs have been eaten... I'm amazed there is any candy left on it at all! I hope we can make this an annual tradition. Real gingerbread beats the heck out of graham crackers any day.
Today is Christmas Eve at our house. We're celebrating a little early so we don't have to cart all of our goodies down to North Carolina. We're spending the holidays with family this year. I am SO excited!
3 comments:
so who got to keep the house? Of course kristen would gladly take the hard part.
Each family made one. :)
I think I got the good end of the deal!
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