I love traditions. We're a young family so we don't yet have any set in stone but it's fun to try some out. When I saw that gingerbread house kits were on sale at Target, I snatched one up. I'm no gingerbread pro unless you count the numerous milk carton graham cracker ones I made in elementary school. Do you remember those things? Sure they were fun but what a sorry excuse for a gingerbread house. I always did have a fondness for real gingerbread houses though because my Great Nana used to send fancy schmancy ones to me and my brother when we were little. We would put them on out mantel and then dive into them on Christmas morning.
Over all our family's first gingerbread house making adventure was successful. The house was a little lopsided and didn't look nearly as lovely as the one on the box but we had fun. Aubs got a kick out of sticking all the candy on the tiny house and "helping" pipe the frosting for the windows. Next year will be better though, I plan on making one from scratch instead of buying a kit. So for now gingerbread houses are a new Christmas tradition in our house, one that I hope will stick around for a long time.
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First, these are the cutest pictures ever. Second, traditions and holidays go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. Have fun creating new ones and continuing the old ones. :)
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I love traditions! It looks like you guys had so much fun!
ReplyDeletei can't wait till Parker is old enough to make one!
ReplyDeleteShe is so cute and the house turned out awesome.
ReplyDeleteWow. You are blowing me away with your photog skills lately... stunning!
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