Gingerbread House Building

For the 4th year in a row we got together with my family for a fun afternoon of gingerbread house building.  Uncle Nate makes the houses from scratch and we have so much fun decorating them (and eating a lot of candy)!  This year all three kids really LOVED it and spent more time decorating than in years past!  The houses all turned out super cute (of course) and now we are looking forward to our new tradition of destroying them on New Years eve.  Last year we smashed them with bats.  This year we have talked about burning them, catapulting them, or maybe making a teeter-totter type contraption and jumping on it to launch them!

Ready to get started..candy in hand and mouth!

Hard at work!

Seth was very focused on picking out only green candies for his church building!

Look at those hands...covered in frosting!

Grammie Lori helping Seth find green ones!

Uncle Noah and Aunt Kellie made an awesome saloon.  This was the first year they were able to join us!

Auntie Laura worked hard on making a Santa Claus for the sleigh.

Auntie Melissa makes such cute things!

The finished barn, complete with rows of crops.

Log cabin that got attacked by native Americans and then red-flagged!

This is the school with hopscotch, a swing set and monkey bars.

The manger scene in the church yard.