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| Becky's house won the prize this year. The prize being, of course, nothing but bragging rights. |
To celebrate St. Patty's day, we made wee houses for the leprechauns. Gingerbread houses are definitely no longer synonymous with Christmas in our world anymore. We started making these on New Years several years back, and since then the house-construction has crept later and later each year...Valentines "Love Shacks" and now Paddy Castles. Next year, I expect we'll house the Easter Bunny. There's already some foreshadowing going on in that department, as we had mini-eggs and peeps aplenty to decorate with this St. Patty's Day.
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| Aiden with his house half-decorated, before the "collapse" |
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| Micah looks leprechaunish with his red beard, next to Jeni's cupcake for comparision. |
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| Trouble 1 and Trouble 2 |
The other trend we've been noticing, aside from the creeping date of our gingerbread parties, is that our construction skills seem to be getting more and more shoddy each year. We blame this on the kids! We used to take such care in setting up the houses and decorating them perfectly symmetrically, with intricate designs in tiny candies. Now we're lucky if the houses stay together long enough for one of the kids to slap a few peeps and a gummy shark on the side, and it's a miracle if they still resemble houses when we're done. This is not at all worrying, at least to me...it's more about having fun, and the creative process, than the finished product. Or, as Aiden would say, "I'ts really about the candy, Mom."
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| Oops. Aiden's house after its collapse |
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| All the cousins |
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| Yay! Pheeb's house! |
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| Jeni and Ciara, both collapsing at the same time |
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| Fisher-zilla towering over the finished houses |
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