Gingerbread house!

This was my first attempt at a Gingerbread house. Travis did one last year with the girls while I was at work and he wouldn't do it this year. I said I would do it....it couldn't be THAT hard, right??? Um...yup, it could be that hard! The frosting was so thick that the plastic bag broke right away so I just slopped it on with my hands. It was super messy! I thought I was doing really well and figured we could put the gumdrops on the top since I had to put frosting there to hold it together. And then I figured we could put snow on the roof and then ended up putting ornaments all over. Well, you are supposed to let it dry overnight but I thought it was holding well until I saw that the gumdrops were sinking. The roof was starting to slide!!! Eeek!!

This is me trying to hold it together. I had Trav take a picture of it in case it just all fell apart.

 

After a lot of frosting under the eves to try to hold it together, we let it sit overnight. You see half of the gumdrops sunken into the middle of the roof:)

Makenna did all the 'ornaments' :)

The next day we finished it off with a door and window. We also put snow on the ground and plants around the front. I think it turned out well for my first time and Makenna had fun doing it with me. I wouldn't say I want to run out and do it again soon but I'm glad we did it:)