Sunday, December 27, 2009

Gingerbread Houses

This was a couple weeks ago, but it is an important part of Christmas tradition, so I am posting it now as the first of several Christmas posts.

We had our annual Gingerbread House decorating party at Kim's a few weeks back. Everyone had a lot of fun and the houses we made were really pretty. The kids did a great job helping, especially Cameron and Jack who insisted on tasting pretty much every piece of candy before it went on the houses. Needless to say, we had two crazy boys running around hopped up on sugar for most of the afternoon!

Ella, surveying the table filled with candy ready to be put on the house.
Mama snuggles Cameron while he sneaks a snack.
Jack samples the candy too.
Ron and Cathy work on their house.
Jack and Jeff concentrating on putting another piece on their house.
Kim and Ella take a break from decorating.
Jack and Ron laughing about something.
Tom sneaks a snack!
Cameron places a gumdrop in the yard.
We were trying to get Cameron to smile by pretending to throw a ball at him. We got some cute shots, but in half of them he had his hands up, ready to catch the ball.
What a cute boy!!
At one point, it started to snow so the kids got their boots on and ran around on the deck for a little while.
Ella and Jack had fun. Cameron kept complaining about the cold hitting him so he came back inside quickly.
Tom and Joan with their finished house.
Ron and Cathy
Kim and Ella
Jeff and Jack
Daddy, Mama and Cam
Four of the houses in a row (Tom and Joan took theirs home before we remembered to take pictures of the neighborhood). It was another great year and everyone made really cute and different houses.

2 comments:

Poppa said...

What a great tradition - boy do those houses look yummy!

Jaime L said...

Those turned out great!!!