One last post this year ... and one last post about Christmas 2011.
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| Our 2011 masterpiece |
I only made one gingerbread house with our daughters when they were young. Perhaps we're making up for lost time by making one a year for the past three Christmases. In recent years, the first house was from a very ordinary pattern I pulled off the Internet. Last year Denise designed an adorable, wonky, leaning house.
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| The foundation construction on Christmas Eve |
This year she was considering a two story structure, perhaps an A-frame? But that idea morphed into a grain elevator ...
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| The Boss (Denise) and the man in charge of the railway track (Larry) |
We were very serious about accuracy; we even had a protractor out to assure the correct angle of the roof lines. I hadn't made enough dough and we were unable to have the lean to shed, so we improvised.
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| Christmas Day; it was a family affair |
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| I get to do the icicles |
And in the end it we were all very proud of our masterpiece!
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| Demolition on Boxing Day! |
The two previous years, the big boys have smashed it. This year, the girls won out and chose to pick away at it gently as girls are wont to do!
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