Thursday, December 18, 2008

Gingerbread House

Daddy was in charge of Family Night last week, so he decided to make a gingerbread house with Hallie. I thought that was the best idea and figured it would not take too long, until I realized that they still had to go shopping for all the ingredients, including graham crackers!? So, Hallie and Daddy headed to the store...

An hour later, they arrived home ready to make their masterpiece. Cam decided to buy Cadbury Eggs (who wastes Cadbury Eggs on the roof of a gingerbread house is beyond me!?) to put on the roof which made it cave in. Cam and Hallie were pretty bummed, but not to worry. They attempted one more time and this is how it turned out (notice Daddy decided to use M&M's this time on the roof!). I think Cam had more fun than Hallie did decorating the house, but it was fun to sit back and watch them create their own little tradition.


Above: Hallie's mouth and shirt were covered in more candy than the gingerbread house was.

1 comment:

Ryan and Nicole said...

Cute! FYI, for our mutual activity a few weeks ago that I was in charge of we used pop tarts for the walls and graham crackers for the roof, some used pop tarts for both, and they were already "snowed" on so the kids used royal icing (which is seriously like glue!) and it worked great...just a thought for next year!