CAUTION...gingerbread under construction

Wednesday night- 12/19, we decided we'd make our gingerbread house as a family activity! I have never had the experience of building a gingerbread house. On a trip to costco I was super excited to find a gingerbread house kit and thought it'd be fun! So we have had the kit for a little over two weeks or so and decided it's about time to test it out! The above pic is Alaina and Emmitt ready for the construction! "Kit includes all you see here" The kit was really cool cause it took all the really hard work out of it and left the fun stuff! No baking and cutting pieces and no mixing together frosting! (My kind of gingerbread experience! lol) It just had a bunch of pre cut house pieces and tons of decorating candy, and icing! Emmitt was super pumped to get started and helped form the sides of the house by putting the icing on the pieces. He made a gingerbread kid covered in funky candies and exclaimed, "Look Daddy this is YOU!!!" He was very proud of his creation! We did our best to get Alaina involved but she was more interested in eating her gingerkid then decorating it. Her piece was soon demolished! My fave part was decorating my ginger girl (seen in front of the house) with the red skirt, blonde hair, and green eyes. Mainly it turned out to be Kurt & I doing the work and the kids eating it! LOL!! Kurt assembled the house and I decorated most of it. Kurt had to throw in a side yard and a fence with the rest of the candy. It was really fun and we'll probably do it again next year!