Gingerbread Houses!

One of my favorite Christmas activities is making Gingerbread Houses. I started loving this even more when I taught school at Freedom Elementary because we did this activity with my students. It was always fun to see the interesting creations that they would come up. It definitely expanded my ideas! Rich even learned a new one this year from the Young Men in our ward - he learned how to make trees out of pull and peel. Isn't it fun to be kids again and get to create new things???

It was also extra fun this year because Parker got to join in. We started by giving him his own graham crackers to add frosting and candy to. Once he had covered his own crackers, he decided to move on to Rich's. Rich had added icing to the entire bottom to make "snow." Parker thought that this was a perfect thing to decorate and quickly added massive amounts of candy to Rich's gingerbread house.

In the end, he even insisted that Rich's gingerbread house was the broken one that Parker had begun with and that Parker's creation was the lovely one filled with an assortment of candy. He kept point to them and tell us whose houses they were.

Rich's and Parker's gingerbread house

Apparently, this is the one that was Parker's gingerbread house...

and this lovely creation belonged to Rich :)

We definitely had a fun time making our creations and got a good laugh out of what Parker deemed to be "his" gingerbread house! (On a side note, he sure though that the self-timer was pretty cool and insisted we take several pictures using it...pretty funny!)