It did start that way many years ago, but it has evolved.
Back in the day, Mom bought gingerbread houses and the boys decorated and all was well in the world. But Josh was allergic to the icing, so we eventually stopped doing that. Next, we started making gingerbread houses out of graham crackers and DF icing. Structurally, they weren't as sound, but they sure did taste better! I eventually got tired of trying to help all three boys keep their cracker houses stable, so then I decided that we would make trees - upside ice cream cone with icing and then candy decorations.
So I guess now we make cone trees. Yeah, that doesn't sound nearly as homey and traditional as a gingerbread house, but it is a lot less stressful for me.
The boys don't really care one way or the other, as long as they get to eat it in the end. So, when Isaac went down for his nap today we made our forest. Our delicious forest. Our never-seen-in-nature forest. Our you-cannot-believe-the-sugar-rush-Josh-is-going-to-have-when-he-eats-his-tree forest.
The cast of players in our decorating fun: green frosting, nerds, winter nerds, candy hearts, mints, chocolate chips, sprinkles, and ice cream cones.
The boys got right down to it and tackled the most difficult part: covering the ice cream cone with the frosting.
Josh covered his in frosting. Then covered it in candy. Then covered it in more frosting. Josh wasn't thinking about aesthetics. Josh only cares about eating it later.
Michael refused to be photographed at this point.
Ben made a nice pattern. Ben is our math kid. Patterns are math. Ben is math. Okay, well maybe not, but almost.
Now that all is said and done, there are six trees in our frosting forest.
Also, Isaac is now awake and that significantly decreases the chances that they will make it until Jason gets home.
And Josh is super excited about the sugar rush to come.
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