It’s that time of year again! (Not sure exactly how that happened — we’ve blitzed through 12 months in 2 1/2 weeks as far as I can tell!) We’ve had our annual gingerbread competition a little earlier than usual this year with an abbreviated crowd. Of the five kids between MyDadLovesMeBestSister and I, only 1 could be here this year. And lucky for us, that 1 was TheFirstChild, because he has SweetiePie and the FinallyGirls. So, this years crew was The Finally Family, MyDadLovesMeBestSister, CrazyBIL, TheManoftheHouse and me. Since we were such a small group this year, we decided to divide the three FinallyGirls between the three couples so that each girl would have a house.
Team One: TheFirstChild, SweetiePie and FinallyAGirl (now 6 years old). These guys came with a plan! And for the first time in our gingerbread history, SweetiePie brought some fondant and it was such a success that I’m thinking we’ll be using it a lot more. FinallyAGirl wanted to do a grinch house and it turned out so cute. FinallyAGirl placed all the candy on one side of the house while SweetiePie drew the grinch on the other side. (And TheFirstChild watched a lot of football LOL.) I love the giant grinch on the roof and the fun Whoville tree in the front yard. The fun hearts on the back of the house were an afterthought, but they work so perfectly with the theme!
Team Two: MyDadLovesMeBestSister, CrazyBIL and FinallyAnotherGirl (now 4 years old). This team decided to make a fun Candy/Soft Serve Ice Cream shop. CrazyBIL very cleverly fashioned a soft serve ice cream machine out of an ice cream cone and hung it from the front gable. FinallyAnotherGirl had lots of fun putting candy all over the sides of the house.
Team Three: TheManoftheHouse, Me, and HurrayAThirdGirl (Just turned 3!) HurrayAThirdGirl LOVES CocoMelon, so we did a CocoMelon house. This was HurrayAThirdGirl’s first big year working on houses and she seemed to really enjoy it. She worked really hard on placing all the green M&M’s on the roof panels. She licked the M&M’s a lot in the process and ate a lot of candy too LOL. We made a little JJ with a blue suit, but, turns out it’s really hard to make a cute little baby out of gingerbread and they don’t look anything alike.
After we were all done, we had a little voting. It was so cute to watch the little girls decide if it was ok to vote for themselves. TheFirstChild voted for all three ’cause, as he put on his note “I love all my girls!” Anyway, The Grinch was the clear winner, so FinallyAGirl won for the third year in a row! The houses have now been placed outside, in the cold, to feed the birds and squirrels. Of which, there seem to be no takers LOL.
So now, on to the big event — hope your plans go smoothly this week!
XOXO,
Anna
Hi Anna!! Oh so fun, it looks like you guys had such a good time, despite the lower number of family members this year. Such a great tradition to carry down. Merry Christmas!! and thank you for sharing.
So glad you are keeping up the good work! All three houses are great, and I love that you include the littles in the fun. Have a very Merry Christmas!
I guess you’d call this seasonal real estate? Then you’d have a bidding war…they are all really cute. It’s been so long since I made a gingerbread house I feel like that guy on the roof of the winning house…….Merry Christmas to all three teams!
So fun, I wait for this competition every year! And yes the Grinch is very cool. Happy Holidays to you all!
It’s always a fun post, your gingerbread houses reveals. They are amazing again this year and so fun to see the girls getting involved and putting their stamp (read candy) on all the creative houses. Had to laugh about licking them first… Good plan to keep all the candy for yourself. Merry Christmas Anna! xx
Yippee I always enjoy seeing all of your gingerbread houses. As usual they are all great, I could never pick a winner. So nice the girls can all enjoy making and decorating the houses this year. Thank You for sharing. Merry Christmas and a Very Happy New Year. Xo
Your gingerbread tradition continues into the next generation! What a great end for this up-and-down year. Merry Christmas, Anna!!
What fun! And such a great tradition. Thank you for sharing. Cheers!