Under Construction...

My Mom got us a gingerbread house kit to do with the boys and Kyle and I realized after the fact that neither of us has built a gingerbread house, or at least it as been awhile...long enough to not know how to. Everything started out great with the frosting ready to be slathered on the walls of the house and lots of candy to be placed randomly creating the perfect, random, sugar coated, and colorful home for Mr. Gingerbread Man.
Kyle started by building up the walls on the foundation. I don't think anybody is going to hire us anytime soon to build anything (although Kyle and his Dad just built an awesome work bench in our garage). We failed to read the directions...you must slowly build the house over a course of a couple hours, making sure the frosting solidifies. Well...we didn't and...

CRACK!

Kyle was so determined that he could fix it because the boys were so anxious to get to decorate it, but...

CRASH, BOOM, TOPPLE!

And the house was no more, just a pile of frosting clad rubble. Perfect for chubby little boy fingers to extract the frosting and savor the sugar and all it's glory. Luckily, my mom had an extra gingerbread house on hand and we tried again...this time following directions. I think it turned out much better the second time:)