White Elephant Gingerbread House

At my work Christmas Party last week we had a white elephant gift exchange. I ended up with a Willy Wonka Gingerbread House Kit. My coworker informed me that it was a year old, but otherwise nothing was wrong with it. Gingerbread and sugar loaded candy can't go bad, right?

Adelle and I decided we were going to make this magical gingerbread house, even though Lydia was away visiting her Grammie. Well the candy looked and tasted well enough, but the Gingerbread...well, let's just say it had a very stale smell to it. Wes could smell it across the room. It even was slightly damp. Not really damp, perhaps moist.


Well Adelle and I started out on our project, just the two of us.

Can you beat that smile?

This is as far as we got before the roof starting sliding off the house. I think it was because the gingerbread was not quite what it should be. We decided to end the project early. The poor house was disposed of in our garbage can.

We were left with all of this wonderful Willy Wonka Candy. We now have nerds, runts, bottelcaps and sweettarts! But Alas, the White Elephant Gingerbread House was not what we had expected.

Gingerbread House

Ahh..Gingerbread houses and all there sugary goodness. Last Sunday my little family gathered around our small table to make this very small gingerbread house. I picked up this gingerbread kit at Wal-Mart. It is a Wilton brand and may I say VERY small. I have decided that I like the Costco Houses much better. But anyway, on to the memories.


We split of into teams and started decorating. Wes and Lydia were a team and Adelle and I were a team. I had the superior frosting piping this year so Adelle and I won, but who is counting. It is always so much fun to get our fingers all sticky to make our little house which we proudly display in our living room the rest of the Christmas Season.