Gingerbread Houses

The Christmas traditions could not start until my family got here. So number one on the list was gingerbread houses. Every year we have made a gingerbread house since I can remember. Here are some pictures of our annually tradition. Every year I always have so much fun making gingerbread houses. And every year my mom asks me if I still want to make one and every year I always say "yes". I will probably make one every year for the rest of my life, right now by myself, and then with my children, then with my grandchildren.

This is the start of my gingerbread house. Looks like fun to dig in and put it all together.

I finally got the house up with a little assistance from Travis. (He had to hold the walls up.)

Even though he is in the picture he did not help me with the gingerbread house. I did it all by myself this year. Which is probably good because he would of just slapped it on because its not really the guy kind of thing to do. Plus I would want a perfect gingerbread house. Like the kind the professionals make in bakeries. But they don't give you enough icing to do it like in the picture that they stick on front of the box. And that really sucks!

All of my candies that get to go on my house!! I get so excited about this kind of stuff.

And the finished product! Isn't it wonderful. Sometimes I wish houses could look like this during Christmas time. All colorful and festive with the colors and the white to make it look like snow. Its like a fairytale house but we live in reality, gumdrops and icing wouldn't last very long on the outside of any home.