Gingerbread Houses

Every year we do a gingerbread house. I buy the kit from Costco and put it together with the kids. This year we invited our friends Andrew and Annie and their kids to come over and join us in our gingerbread house making. They didn't have their own kit so I pulled out an extra that I had. A few minutes into the construction I realized that our house had some serious problems.

Problem #1--I put TJ in charge and he messed up the icing dispenser thing. He ended up slopping and glopping frosting EVERYWHERE!

I was upset about that until he showed me...

Problem #2--we had some MAJOR pieces of our house totally broken. WHAT? I seriously want to take it back to Costco and get my money back. LAME!

So while we were having major problems with our house Andrew and his kids were constructing a perfect house of their own. My kids even betrayed us and migrated over to help him with his beautiful gingerbread house. Now, in all honesty his house would've kicked our house's butt any day of the week but with our broken pieces and glopped icing the difference was that much more glaring.

So with our further delay, here are the results of the gingerbread houses!

ps--cute, sweet Brady kept coming over and telling me that he thought our house looked great. When I told him that gingerbread houses aren't supposed to have holes in the roof he told us that it was okay because then the gingerbread man he made could go inside our house. Hence the gingerbread man sitting on top of our house. I'm so glad I have a kid who is a glass half full kind of a guy!