One of the benefits of living in the Greater Omaha Region is that we get to make gingerbread every year to display at the Kanesville Tabernacle. This year's theme is stories and movies of Christmas. We decided to do the train from the Polar Express. I checked the book and all the children's books on trains out of the library. Then Ryan and I watched it on youtube (in Portuguese - that was the only language available that we understood).
Ryan is always in charge of making the templates and purchasing the candy. One might ask why the Oreos are open. Ryan seems to need chocolate nourishment while he works.
Here is Ryan assembling the brick bridge and the train tracks. Luckily I have spent years perfectly the art of nibbling off layers of Kit Kats one by one because we discovered that the whole Kit Kats were too big for our tracks. 
Here I am working on the garland around the bridge. Last year I got some sweet holly garland sprinkles on sale. And yes, those are tweezers.
This year I splurged and got some cool edible silver spray paint. Ryan made those great spokes for our train and those raspberry filled chocolate things are going to become very important components of the engine.
We will put more pictures up as we continue. Here I am working on the garland around the bridge. Last year I got some sweet holly garland sprinkles on sale. And yes, those are tweezers.This year I splurged and got some cool edible silver spray paint. Ryan made those great spokes for our train and those raspberry filled chocolate things are going to become very important components of the engine.
1 comment:
What I want to know is...why isn't Helen helping? I bet she would be really good nibbling off layers kitkats as well. And tweezers, well, I'm sure she'd be like a brain surgeon with those. You two are mean parents to keep all of the fun to yourselves.
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