Haunted Gingerbread House

#8 Decorate a haunted gingerbread house for Halloween

This is a tradition that I have been doing for several years now.  I was able to dig up some photos of JC and Trinity making houses with me back in 2008.  I know that we did it in 2007 as well but I just don't have photos.

 Quite spectacular, huh?  In those days it was all about eating the icing and loading up your house with as much candy as it could hold.  I think Trinity won this year.

This is Andrew & my MASTERPIECE from last year (Halloween 2011)



So it was with supreme confidence that we tackled this Fall Bucket List item.  Our first Monday in October seemed like a good time to do it--we could assemble it for our Family Home Evening activity.

I had to drive around a bit to find a kit.  I couldn't find one I really liked, so I just ended up buying this one at Michael's.  I had a 40% off coupon for it so it was really cheap.  Can I just say how much I love stores that put their coupons on a mobile app?  Both Jo-Ann's & Michaels do this and I love it.

By the way, DON'T buy this kit.  It doesn't come with very many extras to decorate the house.  I had some candy leftover from popcornpalooza that we used so that was lucky.  Also, we had a really hard time getting the house assembled.  It kept collapsing!

 We gave up after doing half of the roof and decided to call it a night.  Here's a side-by-side with the box:

 Nailed it!