Our Gingerbread adventure

Our friends Katy and Chad have a tradition of making/decorating Gingerbread houses every year. Since they couldn't do it with their families this year, they decided to invite friends over to do it with them. We were really excited to bake our own gingerbread, and build our "brilliant idea." Well, technically it wasn't our idea. We changed it a bit, but we got the idea off the internet (google images.) The first batch of gingerbread didn't work out so well because we didn't roll it out thin enough and didn't have NEAR enough for the pattern. So, we went to the store to get more mollasses (BLAH BLAH BLAH) and other ingredients for another batch. The second batch was much better, but burnt. Good thing we weren't planning on eating any.

We got to their house around 11:00 on Saturday morning, and they told us to plan on most of the day. We thought there was no day it would take us all day. HOLY COW! It took us 6 hours!! In the end, our plan didn't really work, but we had lots of fun! You can see below what we ended up with, and what our plan was in the beginning. I hope we can do it every year, even if it's not with them because it was lots of fun!

Here is our end result (only one side of our house survived the crash, without frosting.)


Here is munchkin land and the yellow brick road.


Here is our house before it crashed.


Another view of our house before the incident...


And here is what it was supposed to look like. Drew is holding it up on the tornado. And that brown thing in the tornado was supposed to be a cow. It didn't work out :)