Let me tell you, in case you are unaware like I was, this is NOT simple. By the end I was COVERED in frosting. I would have taken a photo but I didn't wash my hair yesterday and I have a few zits......... so, just paint a picture in your mind, okay?
It was comical. There I was balancing the gingerbread house parts with soup cans in our tiny kitchen, trying to squirt the frosting though the plastic bag while Liam ate the decorations and Weston (not so patiently) waited to design his masterpiece. I had a few moments of sheer frustration and I almost lost my cool, BUT, I'm proud to say I held it all together (the little candy house along with my sanity) and we did it! (I did have to call for reinforcements from Nate.) But, look!!
The Halls are decked! The tree is up and the little gingerbread house sits on the table. Christmas... HERE WE COME!!
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We're doing ours on Wednesday night. I'm really excited :)
It's so cute!! I should have commented on your Saturday post but I was being the typical Coach's wife and late to practice.. ha ha ha
I did chat w/your Mom for awhile. You make me laugh because you write the things that I often think and sometimes to my own detriment, say out loud!
As for the Gingerbread house..we have one, still in the box from last year. I havn't been up to testing my patience quite that much yet this year. Although, I have to tell you that Sunday morning we got to sleep in until 11am!! Yep ELEVEN!!! We went to a home Christmas party on Sat night & got home about 1:30am. Joe flooded the rink while I tried to wind down and we were exhausted once 2:30am rolled around. The kids were up about 8-8:30a and barely made a peep. I could hear them rummaging through boxes and trying to get into the other Christmas rubbermaid containers but there was NO fighting, NO loud voices and they turned on Christmas carols rather than spongemom or johnny test or iCarly! They woke up the LUMPS, I guess that would be us, the parents at 10:58am to come and see the tree. So..have faith.. apparently there will come a day when your patience won't be tested quite so much. Wendy, Coach's wife
Very cute! Congrats. I don't know if I would have perservered or just started eating the decorations with Liam...
It looks fabulous! I totally cheaped out this year and bought graham crackers for the kids to build with because the kits are dang expensive up here. $25! I used to get 'em for $10 when we lived in Oregon. Oi!
But then I see your end result and think maybe it would've been worth it...
HAHA! I want to do one of these but I keep hearing how hard they are! lol
It looks good tho, you did a great job!
It looks great! Just know that the whole gingerbread house tradition thing gets easier as they get older! This year I didn't even have to get involved! They boys did it all by themselves and it turned out great! Just think of the memories!
We did the gingerbread house things this weekend too. I had no idea what was involved in making one of these babies. Never again. I am still trying to get frosting out of our clothes.
That's what I was thinking in the midst of it all "never again". But now that I have the cute photos to look and and the little house on the table and I took a shower.. it's all good. I''ll do another one next year.. as long as Nate will help. :)
I've forgotten all about gingerbread houses. I wonder if I'm brave enough to try again this year.
Congratulations on your house. It's darling AND delicious!
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Good for you!!! We made our first gingerbread house last Christmas (me and the husband - we don't have kids) :) It was a lot of fun, but hard work!! The kits definitely don't make things easy on people.
The gingerbread house looks great! The boys must be so excited! What fun!
What a great gingerbread house! :)
That is just the cutest! I want to make ours right now!
Oh those houses are a b*tch to make! My daughter keeps asking when we are getting one, lol. I keep putting it off.
Too cute! Love it!
The first 5-10 minutes of making the gingerbread house are fun-filled. Then I always get mad, it falls apart, everyone else gets bored and leaves, etc etc etc. I refused to buy one this year!! Yours looks great!
Its Beautiful!
It looks great! We are doing one next week. I got a kit from Target. We did one last year and the kids had so much fun that we have to do one each year now.
And yeah, it's kinda messy but fun! :D
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