Gingerbread House

We have been busily working on our bucket list and one of the items is to build a haunted gingerbread house. When we were dating 4 years ago, we built a haunted gingerbread house and decided we wanted to make it a tradition. Well, apparently we struggle a little to keep this one going because this is the first time we've gotten around to doing another.

Our 2008 gingerbread house- wow, do we have mad skills or what?

Me gluing our 2008 house together. 

I had to post this picture because I miss that waistline too much! Darn pregnancy!

Brian making the plans for this year's gingerbread house!

Brian making the dough.

It got really bubbly when he added the baking soda at the end. :) 

At this point I was very happy to be behind the camera!

 

Cutting out the shapes in our dough before baking.

This was a new technique this year and I think it's a keeper!

 We were lucky enough to commandeer my parents kitchen to get our dough made and baked. Our kitchen wouldn't have handled such a project! Avery loved the play space and we read lots of books.

Daddy ready a bedtime book to Avery.

We spent a night building the house and starting on the decor.

I seemed to forget how big of a project this is!

Tonight we pulled it out again and worked more on the decor.

Brian has done most of the work on this and it's been so fun to spend 

some of our weekend nights working on it!

We also tend to leave quite the mess....

 The current state of our house! It's hiding on the washer from the little helping 

hands that would love to destroy play with it!