Saturday, December 4, 2010

Gingerbread Houses!

A Peterson tradition that we all enjoy is decorating Gingerbread Houses on Thanksgiving. Kefford always complains about it but I think he secretly enjoys it since he sticks with it and keeps the frosting going so we can put candy on.

The kits that Alison gets are better and better every year. The house comes already put together and this year when we opened the box we found that the frosting was already mixed up. Score for us, the mixing of the frosting was always the worst part. I love these new kits!

Rylee was front and center all ready for the decorating.

Kenedy was all ready to decorate also!

Kefford was in charge of the frosting while the rest of us put the candies on.

I gave Avynlea the gingerbread men to decorate which she was excited about.


Ryker also got one of the men but it came from Mikell's kit, she was very kind to share.


Joshua came over and helped out also!

Ryker worked really hard on his cookie.

He made a happy gingerbread man...

and it could also be a mad face gingerbread man.

Joshua got clever and made the windows give a cheery HO, HO, HO!

I got creative and made my signature palm tree, using Twix for the trunk and green gum drop leaves for the fronds.

How cute is that tree? Oh man so cute!

Avynlea finished her cookie and I think did a mighty fine job.

Then she took a big bite out of it, it tasted as good as it looked!


Rylee was the best decorator and stayed with the house until it was absolutely perfect. She had so much fun and did a good job putting the candies on.

At one point Rylee turned to me and with a sad face stated that nobody liked her decorations. I assured her she did a good job and then told others they better tell her also. What,s with the kid needing so much validation?

She is kind of cute!

Once it was all done Rylee was ready to take a big bite out of it!
It sure did look delicious!

Joshua and I thought it would be a good idea to put some red hots in our apple juice. The idea sounded really tasty but the taste was not so great. Bummer.

Kenedy wanted a nibble also. :0) I think we did the best job on ours. Great team work and lots of fun!