Liesl and Ian sent the kids a gingerbread house kit to put together and decorate, so we decided to do that today while Kyle was home. Kyle made up the frosting and assembled the house, then the kids were really upset when we told them it needed time to dry before we actually decorated it.
After dinner we got the table all cleaned up and went to work decorating the gingerbread house. The kids thought it would be funny to make gummy bears look like they were sliding off the roof, so we got out a handful of gummy bears for them to decorate with in addition to the candies that came with the kit.
Kyle spread icing on the roof to make it look like it had snowed (and hey the gummy bears didn’t want to slide off the roof if there was no snow!)
My crazy husband, saw that I was getting ready to take a picture of him getting the house ready for the munchkins to decorate, and he decided to make a face! Then I went to the other side for a different angle and he did it again! That’s what I love about this man, he is always making me laugh!
The kids had a blast decorating the house though. And I hope that more candy was put ON the house than was consumed during the decorating. 😉
No, we don’t usually let Chloe walk on the table. But she wanted to help too, and the other side of the house was crowded and we really didn’t want her getting pushed off a chair so we just let her sit there on the table to help.
Kyle put icicles on the house too:
And the finished house:
I doubt if the candy on that house will still be there by Christmas!
PS: Thank you Liesl and Ian, and there are a bunch more pictures in the photo gallery! 😉
Thanks for taking so many pictures of your kids putting together the house!! Your house looks amazing, and it stayed together even with all of the kids putting candies on. It looks great!! I love the faces Kyle made as he was putting on the frosting for the kids. I love looking at all of the pictures!
VERY nice!!! I love those faces on my favorite brother … SO him 😉 …