As promised, our gingerbread house! We got a Wilton house kit from the YMCA Christmas party that we went to a weekend or two ago, and Jesse and I had so much fun making it, we decided to try and make it a tradition :) I think it's kind of premature to refer to something done once as "tradition" or "annual", but we're going to try and make it so. Of course, doing a kit is fine for a year or two, but Jesse has already told me I need to figure out how to make good gingerbread so we can make the whole shebang from scratch. Woohoo.
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| getting things set up |
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| filling the icing bag |
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| entertaining ourselves while Jesse assembled walls |
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| cut to bath time..this is what happens when Jesse brushes Lily's hair:: mohawk |
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| letting the icing dry |
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| day 2 |
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| tada!! |
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| cheeeeeese!!! |
Lily wasn't too participatory this year, but we figure in a few years, we'll have a kid's house and an adult's house: Jesse admitted to seeing himself being too particular to let the kids help with his, haha
That's it for tonight!
I love your house! Alex and I are going to make one ... I am very impressed with yours. I also understand the whole thing about 'traditions.' Alex and I are all over that haha
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ReplyDeleteThe house is really cute!! I was especially impressed by the icicles! We have done gingerbread houses with my cousins for 20 years now! It is a good tradition to start in my opinion :0) Also, my mom does make the houses from scratch...she has a mold that bakes the separate pieces and we assemble and decorate. Lily is so cute and I'm sure someday she will have a lot of fun decorating a gingerbread house too!!
ReplyDelete(This is Hilary Young btw!)