Tonight my mom and dad hosted a gingerbread house decorating party for all of the grandkids. The kids were on cloud nine. They had a blast, and are still insisting that I tell them who’s house I liked the best. I can’t say. They were all something else (if you know what I mean).
We had the kids pair up in teams of two per house. The results were fantastic and so was the mess!
Grandma let Mary Kate do everything herself, even squeeze the icing. Kate was going for a clean, orderly, minimalistic look for her gingerbread house, but her partner Jonathan would have none of that……
……he insisted on using every single piece of candy from his kit no matter what, no matter where he had to put them. In his mouth was just fine too.
Jenny and Paul, another brother and sister duo, created a lovely house as well. Paul also got more candy in his mouth than on the house.
I was privileged to be hired as the foreman for team Jeffrey and Emily. These two took their jobs very seriously and were at the table decorating long after the others had petered out.
I’m not sure if they could have gotten more candy on this house if they’d tried.
Precious if you ask me.
I’m sorry to break this to you Mom and Dad, but the gingerbread house decorating extravaganza might just have to become a new Christmas tradition.
13 comments:
What I am loving about this post is the looks of sheer determination and focus on each of their faces. I had no idea decorating gingerbread houses was such serious business.
Very fun night indeed I am sure.
I thought I got all the frosting cleaned up last night, but in the light of day I'm finding more. I had fun and I hope they did too. Those houses are truly works of art.
That looks like so much fun. Which kits did you use (because they look like good ones...love the trees!). We used the mini kit this year so each kid had their own house about 4 inches high. Perfect for us...only 2 foremans, you understand. Anyway, looks like a blast!
What fun, what fun! Ours is sitting in it's box waiting for mommy to get enough determination to do the clean up. Maybe this weekend!!
Way to go family!
Ha ha ha. It looks like so much fun - I love this tradition and demand to be invited next year. I really like Jeffrey and Emily's house, but of course I won't say which one is my favorite.
The houses look great!! I can't believe the kids did all that! What a fun tradition to start. You are so good about documenting everything!
How adorable. You're a Fun Mom, aren't you? :)
No fair :P looks like soo much fun!!
It looks much funner than cleaning guts out of a pumpkin and carving the thing! Great tradition.
Those houses turned out so good, all of them. I love seeing how engaged all the kids were.
Jill, you are amazing. I loved your Christmas card, by the way. I can't wait to see the Food Nanny.
I want to eat them all. And the houses look good too.
-The witch from Hansel and Gretel
Your parents are brave. very, very brave.
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