gingerbread houses!

I just realized I have yet to blog one of my favorite stories...

Last Friday night Justin and I were putting together a gingerbread house. Because it was his first, he was meticulously spreading the icing around with a butter knife, while I carelessly used my finger, licking the icing from it as I completed my task. He was taking the time to create a pattern in the miniature multicolored "christmas lights" on the exterior of the house while I took a handful of the candies and chucked them at the wet icing. He wanted to dust the house in powdered sugar to resemble snow; I'm sure I disappointed him, as I was more interested in dumping the entire bag over the house while yelling, "IT'S A BLIZZARD!"
We found a bag of Entemann's powdered doughnuts and stacked them to create a snowman, we put candy evergreen trees around the "snow deep yard" and decorated the roof with sprinkles.
This house was an ant's definition of heaven. It probably would have been really cute too if I had left Justin to decorating on his own.
Anyways, I decided we had to leave the gingerbread house outside so my cat wouldn't have the opportunity to jump through it and leave powdered sugar covering our kitchen floor, as entertaining as that would have been.
Once outside though, I picked one of the doughnuts up, the snowmans head, and chucked it at Justin. Then the second, and then the third. He scrambled about the yard, looking for the doughnuts to pick back up and throw back at me. Once he grabbed one up, he came closer intending to smash it all over me. But my reflexes intervened and I slapped him in the head with the tray the gingerbread house was sitting on, sending the 2 lb gingerbread house crumbling as it met his temple. He laid on the ground for a good few minutes before he sprang back up to pick a doughnut out of the grass and shove it in my mouth. It was bits of wet powdered crumbs and blades of grass that slid down my throat and left me choking.
After I managed to spit out the majority of this repulsive combination, I choked yet again... this time on laughter.