Gingerbread house

One new traditon I wanted to start doing with the boys is a gingerbread house. I wasn't even going to attempt making the gingerbread from scratch I just bought the kit and it was worth every dollar. The boys had a lot of fun doing the house. They really did do most of the decorating except for the icing. I did that. But even Colton got into the fun putting things on the house, in between him eating some of the gum drops. I think this is something new we are going to do every Christmas now. These pictures show our work from start to finish.


This is a before shot, and as you can see I had to hot glue a lot of pieces together because Colton dropped our kit off the counter and broke a lot of pieces.


Colton helping out.


You can see they were all in on the fun and decorating.


More help from Colton.


Nate, Josh and Colton adding their touches.


Josh decorates the roof.


Again all of them working together. I love Colton's look of interest and awe.


The finished house. Colton really did not want to be in the picture this time. He was finished! It was really fun putting it together. And the boys enjoy looking at it each day!