Gingerbread Houses

For the past two years we have gone over to my friend Christa's house to make gingerbread houses with our kiddos. We love our little tradition that first started out as a spontaneous activity to do with our children and is now something we both really look forward to. This year Matthew was old enough to join us in the festivities and Megan had fun crawling around on the floor opening cupboards in Christa's kitchen.

My friend Christa is very patient and kind-hearted. She does such a good job rallying in three very energetic boys.

 Matthew (age 2) is putting together his cute little "A" frame home (his first gingerbread house that I'm aware of).

Elijah loves putting the candy on...maybe it's the anticipation of being able to eat some later that makes it so exciting :-)

Josh has gotten very creative. He even added a little gumdrop path leading up to the house.

Brothers hard at work.

Elijah's finished product!

 Matthew's finished home.

Josh's finished house (the boys were already off playing right after they finished so I wasn't able to  get their picture next to their home).