Gingerbread House and Keeping It Real

This year was a first for me. I made my first ever gingerbread house! So it was BBC's first one as well! Is it cheating that we used a kit?

Daddy said he needed to start using more power tools!

Yum - Momma's power tools have sweet rewards!

The hardest part of the whole deal was waiting for it to set. I told him if he took a nap the time would pass by faster. Can you believe that actually worked? After that the fun could really begin. Check out that concentration! He's so meticulous - is that a gene? If so I guess I passed it on to him.

I was originally piping on the icing, well, because I'm a control freak. But BBC told me that he had taken a nap so he could grow big strong muscles and he would like to give it a try. He did a pretty good job with it. I should give up control more often. It's a learning process.

And this is how it looked in the end. Not bad for a couple of newbies! And oh the memories we created! That's the sweetest reward of all!

Kimba did a post on keeping it real so in that spirit I confess that this is the only Christmas decor the kitchen saw this year. I just ran out of time. So, the front door, foyer, den, and living room were the only rooms filled with Christmas cheer. The dining room was filled with SLAH boxes from this month's sale. It looked like a warehouse in there! I should have taken a picture. I had 13 big boxes before it was all said and done! Thankfully all but one or two orders have been picked up and/or delivered!

Hope you created lots of REAL memories this Christmas!