We’ll start off 2015’s Christmas posts with the world’s worst gingerbread house. If you’ll remember, last year we were all sick at Christmas. It was a story I never ever want to relive. Due to our “Sickmas” we never got around to making the gingerbread house kit I purchased. Most years we make it from scratch but I must have had some premonition of how last year was going to go because I bought a kit just in case. Well it went so bad we didn’t even get to the kit! We saved it to use this year because sugar never goes bad, right? Wrong. The night the kids pulled out the kit to make it, the frosting would only come out of the tube in one long string because it was too old. So, rather than cry over their plight, they decided to have some fun with it. They made “The World’s Ugliest Gingerbread House”. After lots of giggles, they finished their masterpiece.
Rock did actually get around to making a good one this year too.
My favorite part is the pretzel wood pile.
Rock was particularly proud of the icicles and circle windows on the right side.
The annual Christmas Sunday picture
Best
(yes, even though Cade looks constipated)
Cutest
Best teen attitude-Never try to get four children smiling at the same time if one of them is a teenager.
Funny
Funnier
If you want a miracle, wait till Christmas. We love the Piano Guys at our house. They have been a huge inspiration for our boys. So of course once Reagan started playing the cello, the boys would want to play together just like the Piano Guys, right? If you know my boys at all you can imagine what those practice sessions were like. And if you are imagining what those sessions were like right now, you are lucky, because your imagination is a lot more pleasant than the real thing was and you can simply chuckle at the futility of such a thing. If you don’t know my boys, here’s how it would go: Reagan would tell Cade all the things he was doing wrong, Cade would over explode in tears and frustration and I would have to put a stop to Piano Guys II. But we have Old Pachelbel to thank for our Christmas miracle. For some reason they decided they wanted to play Pachelbel’s Canon bad enough to be patient with each other. And so, here is our miracle.
Maybe we’ll have a Piano Guys II after all.
Stay tuned for more Christmas at the Hymas House.
Short n Sweet 
I had no idea that gingerbread house was ugly on purpose!
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