A couple of weeks ago as I was shopping for groceries, a merry looking display caught my eye. Piled high on a pallet were dozens of boxes of gingerbread house kits. Immediately I thought of my artistic family members and tossed (gently) a box into the cart.Anna has been begging to get her hands on it all week, but we held her off until Christmas Eve. It seemed appropriate - and there was no way I wanted to start mess without Earl around!
So yesterday, after a nice long walk around the park and lunch at McDonald's, we came back home and put Libby to bed then got to work.
Anna was quite excited and eager to demonstrate her mad pattern making skills on the roof trim.
Earl dilligently added details....
Then it hit Anna that we were doing more building with the candy than eating...
This could be in part that Earl and I were really getting into decorating the cookie construction and Anna wasn't buying the jobs we were giving her to "help". (It started out as a great fun project for Anna, but hey, once we put in over an hour it became ours...)
But soon we finished our gingerbread masterpiece! All we are missing is the gingerbread family.
We always go to the Christmas Eve service at church, but this year our church only offered a very family unfriendly 10pm service, so instead we went to our friends' house and chowed on pizza and wings and had a blast! The kids decorated (and ate) christmas cookies, played the Wii, and generally got the Christmas crazies out.
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