Gingerbread House

Last weekend Ally and attended a gingerbread house decorating event with Erik and Stella and their moms. It was a lot of fun.

When we arrived the house was assembled for us and there was a bag of frosting and a tray of candy waiting at each station.

Our work in progress.

Stella and her mom Shannon.

Erik and his mom Deb.

In addition to the tray of candy at each shelf there were 2 tables full of additional candy for the kids to choose from.

Ally loved it.

A memorable blip was when she asked if she could eat a jelly bean and I said yes, and then she wanted some more and I said yes she could eat whatever she wanted it was fine. All of sudden she has this awful look on her face and is starting to salivate and I look at her and hold up my hand to her mouth and she spit out a small red candy. She grabbed a red hot thinking it was a jelly bean! Yuck - she looked so funny and confused. I explained what happened and encouraged her to take another jelly bean. She was very careful after that.

I wanted proof that Ally actually did some of the decorating.

Please note our one car driveway behind the house. (like at our house).

Ally with the finished creation.

Just had to point out the blue hose that leads to the flower garden. All Ally's idea. She saw the licorice strings and immediately wanted it to be a house so we attached it to the house, and she created a flower garden for the hose to water.

The 3 kids with their gingerbread houses.

After the decorating we ate lunch outside - it was pretty cold, but no room to eat indoors. The kids ran around the grass the whole time.

Silly girl, Ally who I love spending time with.