Gingerbread Festivity

I wasn't sure our gingerbread party was going to work out this year. Every place we looked to having it was booked and our options for days to do it were dwindling. Luckily Alexis allowed us to use her home for the party. Someday, yes, someday we will host the gingerbread party in our own home. We just wanted to invite more than one family and our house just doesn't accommodate that very well. So thank goodness for good friends with big houses.

Four families came with all their kids and tons of candy. We had so much but we used a lot of it. We helped the kids first with theirs. Once we got a structure made we let them decorate as they wanted.




Miss Cassidy just wanted to eat the frosting which really isn't that good. After the kids were done and busy watching a movie, we sat all the adults down for the real show to begin.


I had high expectations for Ryan's house. When I first did gingerbread houses with Ryan's family 10 years ago, I had no idea how serious they were. I had started making a dinky kid looking house and looked over at Ryan and saw a replica of the White House. I soon realized this was serious and not just an excuse to play with candy. So over the years I have developed my talent and I think maybe I have officially won the right to carry the Gremmert name.


Ryan in the planning stages.


I think this was the Empire State Building and it was starting to lean so we hurried and took a picture.

Yep, moments later it all crumbled and this is what is ended up looking like. On the other hand........


Mine turned out so cute. My roof was falling a little but the candy canes came as a great structural element as well as decorative. Act like I planned it right?


So here is our side by side comparison just to rub it in one last time.