Tuesday, December 08, 2009

The Gingerbread House that stood...

You probably don't remember our last year's attempt on this gingerbread house thing. Ours would not stay standing and was a pile of rubble shortly after it was constructed. The solution? buy a PRE-BUILT house and just add frosting and candy! It takes total concentration! And it's a good thing there are two parts of the roof and 4 sides, so the kids could have a whole side to themselves! That was pretty important.

Meanwhile...Mika the trouble-maker was laying on the table watching all of this happening. Helper or Candy Stealer? You be the judge. Don't forget to check her hands and that big finger swipe on the table....

ALL DONE!! We were all happy with the final product although both of the decorators starting decorating the other's side at one point and then couldn't remember what side was theirs to begin with.

I love Christmas time!!!! Such good memories!

3 comments:

Angie said...

yay! looks like the kind we did too! always fun. cute last picture of all of you....

Tami said...

So cute! I LOVE that group picture at the end! Do you mean that you bought a kit and then put the walls together, etc.? They didn't sell a house already standing did they? I am glad that you mentioned that your kids wanted to decorate their own sides this year.. I was going to buy one kit and have my kids all make it together but that might end up being a problem. Hmm... Looks like fun!

The Gardner Family said...

congrats on having a standing house! Eventhough, it comes in a box it can still be tricky ... or maybe just for us! Merry X-mas!