Each year Tyler's family does a gingerbread house building competition. His mother buys the kits and makes the frosting. The adult children supply tons of candy. And we all compete to see who can make the best house. This year our little Opfar family is living 2 states away in southern California. We still made our house and entered it into the competition.
I am not a super huge fan of this tradition in all honesty... but on the other hand I am super competitive so when you say there is a winner I am not going to just sit back. Tyler suggested a gingerbread castle so Ted and I spent some time on Pinterest collecting ideas. We made a trip to the store and $50 later (yeesh) we had our supplies ready to go. I baked up a few squares of gingerbread and the family set to work putting together our house.
Don't be fooled by the pictures. There were some chaotic moments when the frustration level was about as high as Ted's blood sugar. I have these bursts of ugh-ness when I am getting so impatient with Ted about knocking over the Oreo tower and then I think, why in the world am I so upset? It is a candy castle? What I really should be upset about is the fact that all this delicious candy is being donated to the royal icing monster.
Our castle turned out awesome thanks to Tyler's engineering skills. After we showed the pictures to the Washington state Opfars I think the gauntlet has been dropped for next year. Thank goodness for Pinterest.
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