Gingerbread Weekend

     Since Josh and I were married, we have made a tradition of making an original gingerbread house from scratch each year.

     Our first Christmas together we made a tropical getaway home (complete with palm tree) in anticipation of our upcoming trip to Australia:

(the outhouse was Josh's contribution. They are not actually commonplace in Australia)

    

    The year we came back from Australia we attempted a gingerbread castle. Unfortunately, due to unforseen circumstances, this was as finished as it got:

 

     The next year, we had just moved into our own very first home, so we decided to make a scale model replica: 

Josh felt the need to make it 'realistic' and add dog poop to the yard.

We even did the interior, too! :)

     Then, last year, we made a gingerbread treehouse:

including happy children creepy, drunken old men playing underneath (again, Josh)

     This year we wanted to do something relatively uncomplicated so Laura could help. We ended up doing 'Santa Visits the Great Pyramid':

Watch out for the Santa-eating cobra!

     We didn't actually end up letting Laura help with the pyramid, but she did help decorate cookies:

And she did a good job, too! <3