5th Annual Gingerbread Night!

Well tonight was the 5th annual Gingerbread Night! As always I would say it was a major success! There was only 6 builders this year, by far our smallest group, but we had a great time!!! This was Cameron's first year actually making his own gingerbread house and he did way better then we thought he would! We thought he would spend a few minutes, use a little icing, get frustrated when the candy didn't stick and then be done with it. But NO the kid sat there for 2.5 hours!!! Handling a pastry bag like a pro decorated his house amazingly and with such care and love!! He was SO proud of the finished product!! And I have to say we are too! He is becoming such a big boy! And so smart!

Today, pre-gingerbread, Larry and Cameron were working in the backyard. Larry moved our deck box and disturbed some mice (tis the season :( so he set some sticky mice traps. To lure the mice to them he placed M&M's on the traps. When Larry wasn't looking, Bernadette, our dog, decided to sneak some of the M&M's off the traps. Larry was worried that there could be something on the traps that could harm Bernadette. Cameron looked at him and said "why don't you call animal control and see if they are harmful to dogs?" AAAHHH from the mouths of babes! What a smart 4 year old!

Back to gingerbread night. So even though the only builders were me, Larry, Cameron, Jessica, Ashley and Christopher the whole family came out to watch. Then we topped off the evening with pizza and buffalo wings and watched White Christmas and Elf. I would say it was the perfect start to the Christmas season!

Here are some pictures of our houses

Front of Cameron's house (notice the wreath? Also the yellow thing is a tire swing)



One side


The Back


The other side



My house


Larry's train