12.26.2008

Gingerbread House

On Christmas Eve, Mark and I had an ambitious plan to construct a gingerbread house from scratch. I ran to the store, picked up all the ingredients to make the dough (along with bags of candy), and we went to work...

Mark did most of the technical work and left me to the decorating.

And for a brief moment, it looked like this:

However the roof collapsed under the weight of all the peppermints and it turned into this:

And gingerbread Mark got crushed:

2 comments:

Dana said...

wow from scratch? I am very impressed!

Pete said...

Next year, jingerbread Mark needs a gingerbread hard hat!