Monday, December 24, 2007

Pathetic Excuse for a Gingerbread House






Ok...so we started a tradition. Make a gingerbread house. We used the store bought gingerbread in the boxes, which is not the problem that occurred. We decided to build a structure out of cardboard which worked great. I designed a nice colonial with an attached garage. Of course, my mind's eye sees things much better than they ever turn out :)
Tanya had some "ingenious" ideas.
One...she was trying to figure out how to make grass/landscaping (don't forget that a gingerbread house is supposed to be surrounded by snow for winter). Well...she took the scissors, opened the front door and cut off some of the branches on our bush. Broke them up and used them for grass and bushes.
Two...she wanted to make snow and we didn't buy coconut or marshmallows, she took the extra powdered sugar and poured it over EVERYTHING...so when it moves around, it falls off as it isn't attached to anything.
Three...Tanya wanted a cobblestone driveway so she used Rice Krispies.

Anyways. We went about putting on the graham crackers and such...but right after I frosted the roof, before I could put on anything else, someone got a little overzealous with the spice drops and caused our roof to fall over...


I eventually reinforced it with pull-n-peels, but our house turned out Ghetto.

Anyways...next year we are going to be making separate houses :)
The good thing is that we can't stop laughing at our pathetic house...we will see what Keira thinks tomorrow.
We were going to bring it to Warner, but it is too low class for Tanya's family...so my family will receive the coveted prize package :)
Mike V.

4 comments:

The Real EMO said...

Wait- The patheticness of the house is not all my fault.. Mike really is no better at building a gingerbread house than I am- well maybe he is a little bit better. I think the frosting was too runny and that is why it caused my spice drop roof to cave in either that or it was the 3 foot ice dams and 2 feet of snow on the roof.... Mike says we should have vented the roof...Ohh and we aren't sure why the front of our house looks like a face- that wasn't supposed to happen either. oops. the important part was we had fun though!!! :O) even if Mike thinks I ruined it.
tanya

alexish5 said...

You two are hilarious! Tanya, I think that powdered sugar and rice crispies were ingenious! Don't listen to Mike. Men just get jealous when women have such creative ideas about decorating and creating!

Merry Christmas!

k's mama said...

So true Alexis!!!
Tanya

Anonymous said...

Glad to know as a Vigneau I am a low enough class to be worthy of it.

Kim