Day Four: Making our Gingerbread House

Day 4 of the 12 Days of the Reeders' Christmas...

We went to a Gingerbread House Party down at the Rec the first week of December. It was such a fun event! Each family had a gingerbread house to decorate & take home. There was a giant table full of every candy and sugary treat you could think of to use to decorate. The kids were more into the candy-eating than the decorating, surprise surprise. Especially Joe - I'm not even sure I can quantify how much candy he ate that night! They did help out a bit, though. Each child was given a side of the roof to decorate. Brooke was very methodical on her side, carefully placing gumdrops and candies where she wanted them. Joe insisted on putting graham crackers on his side (we decided they were solar panels...our gingerbread house is very green.) Our house is now proudly displayed on our kitchen table for all to see :)