In the beginning there was a gingerbread house, made with homemade gingerbread and cut carefully from a paper pattern.For many years this was the manner in which this tradition was carried out. Until the year when the gingerbread baker thought that it would be much nicer to undercook the gingerbread so that it would be soft and tasty instead of nice and hard. Learning the hard way that soft and tasty gingerbread is also fat and heavy. Leading to the (unfortunately not photographed) collapse of said house.
And to the substitution of graham crackers for gingerbread.
1997
Several years later (after these pictures) a bad batch of frosting led to the innovative idea of building the graham cracker structure using hot glue, and then covering all traces of the hot glue with frosting.
We had arrived at gingerbread nirvana. No longer bound by the success or failure of either the gingerbread or the frosting, our houses were able to reach their truest potential as we expressed our architectural vision.
2007
Making gingerbread houses has become one of our family's dearest Christmas traditions. Each year we gather together our family, friends, graham crackers of all brands, as many glue guns as possible, and more candy than you can imagine.We make gingerbread houses, and we make memories...
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Jared & Jason's army camp
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What was Jason making this year - porta potties??
ReplyDeleteDuh, can't you tell it's an army camp? Jared had been planning this for weeks. Obviously I need to post a picture of the finished product, which included 2 guard towers, one with a radar on top of it, and a tank!
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