Gingerbread Disaster

Okay, so I'm kinda silly about different things. One is that I really want to start doing things with my girls so that when they are older they will regard some of the fun activities we've enjoyed over the years as tradition that they will want to pass on to their own children one day. Especially surrounding special holidays. One thing that I've wanted to do every year for as long as I can remember is to build a gingerbread house. Well I decided Kayli is definately old enough this year to start helping me build a gingerbread house. My plan was to build it at the beginning of the Christmas season and use it as our table centerpiece until New Years. I decided to devote a whole day to it. I was so excited. I filled the table with all kinds of sprinkles and leftover halloween candy and raisins, and coconut, and all sorts of goodies. Since I didn't have any mollasses to make home made gingerbread I decided this year we would have a 'graham cracker' gingerbread house and decided to use peanut butter as the 'glue' to hold it all together.

Now if you know me at all you have to know that I wasn't going to make some itty bitty gingerbread house. It was going to be a gingerbread castle!


Kayli & I had so much fun gluing together our house and eating peanut butter.
Kat also had her fill of peanut butter!

Kayli was so excited when I let her help me use the mixer to make the frosting. She loved getting to put the powdered sugar and cornstarch into the bowl! (I had a hard time convincing her Mommy needed to do seperate the egg whites from the yolks.)

Kat liked licking the beaters! We covered our whole house in frosting because that was what Kayli wanted and we stuck all kinds of candy all over.
It was looking really nice and then I realized that a double batch of frosting was a bad idea. (Two pounds of powdered sugar really does a number on graham crackers!) To Kayli's dismay our house collapsed before we even finished decorating it.

I tried to start over and make a smaller house but Kayli's diminishing interest, and my increasing frustration, resulted in throwing the whole sticky mess straight into the trash can. (We both had our fill of frosted peanut buttery graham crackers first of course.) Even though the whole day was wasted and I had a huge mess to clean up and no gingerbread house to proudly display we still had a lot of fun. I learned the valuable lesson that graham crackers can't hold up two pounds of powdered sugar, Kayli had a blast, and I got some really great pictures!