{"id":23114,"date":"2018-12-23T23:50:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T23:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=23114"},"modified":"2019-06-22T13:54:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T13:54:59","slug":"gingerbread-houses-2018-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/gingerbread-houses-2018-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingerbread Houses – 2018 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[Photos taken on 23 December 2018, posted online on 22 June 2019. Such a contrast between these images taken in the rampant darkness, and the never-ending cloudless brightness at this time of year!<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve mostly given up on the Instagrammable house-life (there seems to be a Conservation Law of Disarray at work in our house), but I do hang on to making a gingerbread house from scratch for yule. The kids also make sure to remind me, still remembering the horror of the no-gingerbread house yule a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s almost a custom by now that we rope Holla and \u00d3li into the ginger bread madness, and this year was no exception! (30-ish images total)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
Our finished house, modeled on house #2.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Earlier in the day, Emma helped me make the dough.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
As it was the day before yule, the gang put up the tree and decorated it. It sure helped that this was a Sunday!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Action!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
The kiddos hard at work making ginger bread cookies while I worked on designing and making our house pieces.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Holla is the undisputed Queen of Icing!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
The pre-fabricated house had cracked, so it got iced back together.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
\u00d3li beginning to assemble the pre-fabricated house they’d brought. Our house still in horizontal mode.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Finnur preparing dinner. It is never an easy task, as the gingerbread takes over the entire kitchen.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
You taking a photo?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
One house assembled!!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Anna making sure house #2 wasn’t going to fall apart.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Frame completed!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Assembling the chimney is always fun!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
The house with roof, in a safe spot while we ate. I had misconceptions about how 3D geometry works, and incorrectly modified three pieces so the add-on-roof ended up a little slanted. Oh well, you live, do stupid things, you learn.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Finnur was in charge of dinner, which was turkey (sous vide) and mashed sweet potatoes! Yum!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Post-dinner action.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
All hands on the decorating deck!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Serious decorating going on!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Decorations completed on house #1!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
House #1 from the other side.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Coming along sweetly.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Decorated cookies, yum!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Anna working hard!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
Anna putting on the final touches.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
The icicles are my specialty.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
“We refuse to go to sleep until we’re done decorating!”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
The “smile for the camera” moment.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
The front.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"
The back. Goodnight!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Photos taken on 23 December 2018, posted online on 22 June 2019. Such a contrast between these images taken in the rampant darkness, and the never-ending cloudless brightness at this time of year!<\/em>]<\/p>\n

I’ve mostly given up on the Instagrammable house-life (there seems to be a Conservation Law of Disarray at work in our house), but I do hang on to making a gingerbread house from scratch for yule. The kids also make sure to remind me, still remembering the horror of the no-gingerbread house yule a few years ago.<\/p>\n

It’s almost a custom by now that we rope Holla and \u00d3li into the ginger bread madness, and this year was no exception! (30-ish images total)<\/p>\n

\n
\"\"
Our finished house, modeled on house #2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends","category-us","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23114"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23148,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23114\/revisions\/23148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}