Gingerbread House Extravaganza

We invited our neighbors the Walther's over for gingerbread house making. I made all the gingerbread houses by scratch earlier that day. When Mike saw them he said, "Wow, you have been busy. That must have taken a long time." I said, "I have never made gingerbread houses form scratch..........and yeah, it took me forever." 6 hours to be exact! I wanted to make a house per kid but it took so long that 2 had to share. Soren was more then happy to share with McKenzie. In fact we was so happy to be working with her, he was more then happy to let her have the gingerbread house when they were done.

I was so impressed how well all the kids did. Xander, Brandon (who are 4) and Craig (who is 2) stayed focus on their houses for about an hour. It was amazing. And to boot they only ate every 20th candy. Is that not amazing?! All in all it was a really great night until the the Walters were just leaving and Xander grabbed his house, slid it off the table and then proceeded to drop it. It shattered into 1o0 pieces and tears began to fly. So, after 6 hours of sweating over these houses, we had nothing to show for it because Soren gave his to Mckenzie and Xander's was now a complicated puzzle. However when the Walther's were leaving, Katie (the Walther's oldest and 7 year old) came running back in and gave her house to Xander. Isn't that so sweet! That dried up all the tears and I didn't have to spend the rest of the night trying to put back the house. Yeah for charity!!