Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Gingerbread Houses!

     This year I again made a gingerbread house!  Okay, it's really made from graham crackers, but look how stinkin' cute this is!  Like I may have mentioned a couple blogs back, this was a tradition my Aunt started with us nieces and nephews about 15 years ago.  I've definitely skipped a few years, but this year, with my Aunt back in town (with 4 young boys in the house!), we were back in business!
     I got a phone call Sunday afternoon that the boys had finished up and now it was safe for the adults to "play!"  I was going for a Notre Dame look, but then my towers got Hershey Kiss Onion Domes, which lent more of an Orthodox feel...  There was a cross originally that was supposed to go on the tippy top of the roof, but it got lost somewhere in transport...  I iced up my pretzel rods, and drew a little icing star to cover the joints, and when it got "smushed" I had to burst out laughing as my little icing/pretzel cross took on a very, um, Catholic appearance-my Aunt saw it and laughed too.  
     By the time Sunday night was over there were about four or five happy little boys, one or two happy neighborhood girls, and my Aunt and myself!  My Aunt made a little gingerbread train (engine + car), tucked all sorts of goodies in the car and loaded up a tray to take to the sick neighbors across the street.
     Christmas....  There's really nothing like it, is there?