I had my Gingerbread House Party! It went fairly well. We had 18 or so kids over and that, my friend, was a slight handful. I did it last year, but we only had eight kids or so. This year we jumped to about 2 times as many.

In case you’re wondering what a “gingerbread house party is”, it’s where the people that come over all work to glue gingerbread house pieces together, and then decorate their houses with candy and frosting.

Anyway, though it was a lot of work, I had nice help. A lot of the moms that came over helped out. The only down side to this years party was that our houses kept collapsing!  That didn’t happen at all last year. I figure it’s probably the humidity that caused it. blah, I’ll have to figure out some cure for that later.

Gluing houses together...

decorating houses above and

below

Some of the finished houses

Some of the gals having fun.

Sarah (one of my invaluable helpers) and me

I’ve been making gingerbread houses for the last three years, and though I don’t know much about it, it’s been a blast. My sister Leanne and I usually do the gingerbread house thing. Last year we made a house we were happy with, I'll go ahead and post pics of that house another time. This year, we didn’t make a big house. Partly because we had to make all the pieces for the kids party, but mostly cause I’m pretty busy babysitting and haven’t the time. Maybe next year though.  

Anyway, hope everyone is enjoying this holiday season!

Emily