Making Gingerbread Houses

Every year we make gingerbread houses for Christmas. In the past, we've just done one but this year each of the boys did their own house. Jimmy's was from a kit (I highly recommend doing it that way). Luke's was made out of graham crackers (I also recommend doing it this way). Ben's was done from scratch (I definitely DON'T recommend doing it that way)!! But he had fun even though his was very burned and not equal on all sides. :))

Luke is having more fun with the toothpicks and gumdrops. I'm not sure what he's making. I also don't remember what happened to his face. It was probably nothing. Every time he has the tiniest scratch he runs to the cupboard to get a band aid!! He is going to make me go broke from buying so many band aids!! I was probably out of the regular size band aids so he got a small one instead. He's also in a tattoo phase as you can see from his arms. :)

I forgot that gingerbread houses take such a long time and we started them at like 7:00 at night so we had to put the finishing touches on the next day.
Here is the final product. As you can see they each have a dog house and a Santa sled with their house. They were so proud of their creations and they all did an amazing job! With a little help from me and Jim of course. ;) Although Jimmy's was 100% his own work!
Ben's dog house even has the dog's name on it (which he wrote on all by himself).