A couple weeks ago it happened once again. I made a ton of gingerbread and had friends come create and decorate it. This was the 9th year in a row! Craaaazy. Some firsts this year were: my sister was here for the first time to help with it all and to make mimosas the morning of, we had a grim gingerbread wildfire scene, and my icing flat-out rocked. That stuff glued everything together-- there were no structural catastrophes that I know of. My icing secret was that this year I didn't measure it when I was making it.
Too many words here. Here are some pictures. I didn't get as many pictures as I usually do, but people have been sending them to me. It was a fun and big party- held at our condo clubhouse this year.
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Go time |
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I believe it was four double batches? I know it took a week. |
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Chili! |
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Daddy kisses |
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Melissa and Chelsea apply clothes to their ginger people. |
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Cindy made me get in a picture, so I smiles with Theresa |
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Carey claimed to have never made a gingerbread house before.
However, she did study architecture, so...her house was amazing. |
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Abby built a beautiful house...while her mom and aunt drank beautiful beers
and encouraged her from the sidelines. |
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Clara's first (of many) gingerbread party! |
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Jackson appropriately renamed the party "that candy party" |
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The Kurtz family, pre sugar-rush |
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I didn't quite catch Thomas before he ate the head off his man. |
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Scarlet was only looking at that candy that fell on the floor... |
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Annabelle-- looking like an icing bag pro |
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When Cals collide...it's Cal and Cal! |
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Lovely cottage |
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Judy with frosting all over herself making her island house- classic Judy |
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Carey "I've never made a gingerbread house"'s house |
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I don't think those cookies made it very far... |
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The Korin family's traditional house and landscaping--
They've been at almost all of our gingerbread parties!
Even before the kids. |
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Structurally sound, quaint, symmetrical, whimsical, you name it |
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My sister's forest fire mountain range-- I believe there is a fire fighter
meeting his untimely demise |
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And here is the finish wildfire scene...can't get the picture to rotate
and not willing to keep trying. It says
"Don't play with matches." You go, Smokey Bear. |
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It snowed. |
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The Kuans and their giant gingerpeople |
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Teddy's cheeks and Margo |
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Teddy loves his Aunt Bean. I think she likes him a little too. |
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Party-scape |
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Candy-splosion |
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Clearly Chloe is in charge of her family's project. |
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Jackson doesn't know where that other cookie went... |
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Ginger-girlies |
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Crys's final wildfire disaster |
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We've never had so many kids at a gingerbread party before...LOTS
OF ENERGY! |
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Trevor and Trey and their ginger-twins |
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Jen, Gary, and Thomas created a Somalian pirate scene
with accompanying harrowing kidnapping story! |
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The uneaten portion of the Kurtz Family project |
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As the dust settles...Teddy Elf helps with Cal and Clark's gingerbread house |
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Cal and Clark's house |
Good party! Until next year, Mother-in-law's Kitchen Aid Mixer. I'll see you when we meet again for a week of spreading a fine layer of flour and powdered sugar all over my kitchen in the name of Christmas cheer, family traditions, and friends. I wouldn't have it any other way. Tenth year coming up!
Thanks to all who came. And if you have a picture to add, please send it to me!
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