Gingerbread House Day

The finished product! Nice job, everyone!!!

Can I just tell you how much I love these 4 people!

Sunday came and it was just as busy! We traveled to Perry early that morning for our nephew, Andrew's mission farewell. He is an amazing kid and did a great job on his talk and he sang, too! We had a great time visiting with family and with Kristine's family...Mike grew up with the Hewards, so there was time to catch up with these friends. The weather was warm for December and the kids got a chance to get outside and run. So great!

By the time we got home, everyone was pretty worn out. We didn't make it to the last of our meetings, but Mike had to go over and take care of some clerk stuff. When he got home, we had a great dinner (honey shrimp-something everyone eats without complaint!) and decided it was Gingerbread House night!

I found a pre-built kit at Costco! Yea! So, basically we had to decorate. Mike was in charge of construction on the few things that needed it and the kids were to decorate. Well, pretty soon the decorating slowed and the sneaking frosting on your finger accelerated!

Then, there was frosting on Brandon's forehead!
Sydney showing off her gingerbread person....before she ate it!

Amanda enjoying her gingerbread person!

Last year, we had heard some of our friends burn their gingerbread house on New Year's Eve. We tried it out and loved it! That's all the kids could talk about while they were decorating-should we be worried about that? No....it's now a favorite tradition!