Fall Gingerbread

I was determined to make a fall gingerbread house this year. When we couldn't find a single boxed kit, I took it upon myself to bake it ourselves.

The girls were excited to play with the dough and cut out some cookies. For some reason we don't have any halloween cookie cutters so we had to get creative, Eliza did some stars.

Here are our baked walls with stained glass windows.

Some of our other cookies. Crabs, ninjas, sharks, a snowman. You know, the essentials.

Here is our assembled house, this was fraught with peril as I had not considered how it was all supposed to go together before I started icing it and was wrong 3-4 times before I finally figured it out. Still, gaps and all but not too bad looking I think.

Here it is all decorated, this picture is right after it started falling apart and right before I told them all to stop touching it and go away. It has survived somehow and it was fun and exhausting to make.