Our Gingerbread Temple

Every year on Christmas Eve we make a gingerbread house from a kit. This year while we were hanging out at Costco (one of our family's favorite past times) we saw this ENORMOUS gingerbread house that you could buy at the typical Costco price of about $100. I said to my family, "I bet we could make that ourselves at home". This then started the talk of all the different cool gingerbread houses we could make. Which then lead us to the idea of building a gingerbread temple.

As soon as that was said, I could see Ray's eyes light up with ideas.

Once we got home plans were drawn (Ray's plans are in the middle, Benny's are in red, and Hannah's is on the left),

and the model was built.

Avril was hopped up on sugar before we even started!

We found a great recipe online for gingerbread dough, then cut it out according to Ray's model.

Then we got to the fun part of decorating!

We all had our own areas to decorate.

Benny and Hannah's side




Hannah's goldfish pond

Benny's Missionaries

Aww, Ray made a gingerbread family in a garden. haha

The front was mainly decorated by Ray and I with Will and Avril squirting/eating the icing

Ok, so we we took more pictures of this thing than some of our children at birth!

Our gingerbread temple just before we ate it!