I Love Gingerbread Houses!

Our family makes gingerbread houses almost every year.

Not just the graham cracker or packaged variety, but the

completely from scratch, Grandma's Old Fashioned Molasses

kind of gingerbread. It's a lot of work. But the house smells

delicious. For days afterwords! Everyone gets to put their

best building and decorating skills to work. It's fun to see

what the kids will come up with each year. Lani and Diane

wanted to get together, so Lani stopped by with Brody on

Monday. Brody was so excited to make a house!

Devin worked into the evening so he put his house together

after the tumult had died down. Nice use of royal icing.

Josh and Katie have a fancy candy cane fence and a rather cute
Santa on the roof.

Diane and Dennis put a cute candy cane arch leading into the

pathway.

We all loved Eric's nice gumdrop tower-like chimney.

Traditionally, we don't eat them until Christmas. They're

actually pretty tasty too!