Gingerbread 2019

Over the weekend we worked on our annual gingerbread house. It was a much calmer year this year. Which was good. This year we had a sketch about a week before, but we still didn't build our template until Saturday morning. (Next year though, I am putting my foot down!)

This year we only made 3 batches and wound up throwing about half of the last batch out. We used our regular recipe.  Which we LOVE, but it doesn't hold well and we weren't interested in baking up more than we needed for our houses. (Our house, my friend K's house and then the two kid houses.)

Here is our little Gingerbread Cottage.

I made up a whole backstory about Michelle and Patrick who live in our house with their teenagers Taylor and Andrew. It made me chuckle but it may also make me sound unhinged. But there we are. My true self is out there. 

C's house. 3 gummy bears live in his house. 

M's house. Pink, purple and yellow were the primary color choices. Too bad the Vikings lost. 

Clearly, C's house made a big impact on his weekend. His Thanksgiving break was jammed packed with so many things but this is what he wrote about at school yesterday. 

Anyway, all in all, gingerbread weekend 2019 was great.