Gingerbread House Extraordinaire

Last night I was charged with the duty of coming up with our activity for the evening. With Steve going out of town this weekend, holiday parties, and Christmas only a week away, we were down to two nights to do Christmas activities. Thus brought on my spur of holiday idea's and activities. I made a long list of about 8 or 9 things to do, but we decided to settle on making gingerbread houses.

We ran to the store and each got to pick out two types of candy to use. Steve found this very hard and we stood in the holiday candy isle for a good 10 minutes while he decided. He eventually caved and decided to get three types of candy and we were set.

We got back and Steve made us dinner... And I set up stuff to construct our houses...
Steve is an engineer major, and I should have known going into this that this would be no small task. Luckily my pictures are time stamped so I can walk you through a time line of our night. This is us at 7:57, ready for the fun to begin... Steve started his "California" house and I started my lack of creativity Gingerbread house (don't be fooled by Steve's blurry hand, it isn't because he is working fast...) Here is my humble abode at 8:40... Here is my humble abode compared to Steve's progress at 8:40... This is me patiently waiting for the completion of construction on Steve's house at 9:01... Steve started to show some real progress around 9:31...
Finally after 2 hours and 22 minutes, at 10:19 the masterpiece was completed...I guess this is what happens when you decide to make Gingerbread Houses with a creative engineer (and yes, the duel level house is complete with candy cane struts, in case you were wondering).

The night was a blast and we fully brought the Christmas spirit by listening to Christmas music. I just love Christmas time and it provides so many fun activities!