When Baylor walked out into the kitchen the first thing he said was, 'Today is the Gingerbread party!' I am glad he looks forward to it as much
The party was open for 11:00 but we did not have any guests until around noon, which was fine as I was behind in getting the houses put together. But everything else was set up and decorated. My theory is if it does not move, decorate it. And Baylor loves that as much as I do.
Some of the candy decorations went on the buffet cabinet and the rest went on the craft shelf. The candy canes were on the bookcase on the other side of the room. We had decorating stuff everywhere!
And we were decorated pretty much everywhere. I left up the sugar skull animals to show Tara and Julie. Tara got to see them but sadly, Julie and family could not make it due to her mom being sent to the hospital for surgery.
I made Italian bread rolls but the dough was a bit dry and they did not turn out as well as I was hoping. We had ham and bean soup, mac and cheese, veggies with Ranch dip, grapes, and a cheese and meat selection. For sweets we had Oreo truffles, Gingerbread bars, sugar cookies, snickerdoodles, and molasses ginger cookies. And coffee, lots of coffee.
Cat in the open window with our lights and melted bead decorations.
And the houses! I made several styles this year and let people choose the house they wanted and the base they wanted to put it on.
The Hazel family and Tara all started their house at the same time. Miss Brigid asked for a gingerbread man and woman to decorate but she was not too inspired past decorating one of the their feet. I finished off the lady for her. Heather was inspired to make an all natural house this year with lentils, dried peas, raisins, and such. Until it became fairly tedious and then she wanted to just be done with it. And the hollow pretzels would not cut well and .... it was a mess for her in the end and I don't think she was pleased.
Baylor loved his design and even created a deer head on one side out of the green gum drop.
Tara helped Lucas construct his masterpiece and then we occupied him with some Handy Manny and some tools while she worked on her house.
Heather left in a hurry so I did not get photos of them with their creations, so instead we took pictures of our crazy Grimm hiding under the tree. He loves to knock off the ornaments and chew on the branches.
We tried to get the boys to pose but it was like wrangling cats, neither could stand still or look the same direction at the same time. But they are who they are and it is what it is. And they are both growing so fast!
Baylor and his finished house. He did it all by himself. I may have found a sweet or two for him to add to the house, but he did the work. He should be a pro, he as been decorating houses since he was 2.
Tara made a lovely home, nearly in the style of her soon to be new home.
Lucas did a great job with his house as well. They
were all great, as they all are. I love spending the time with everyone! Farewell until next year Gingerbread houses!!
It was great fun, as always! But that first picture of me.... Yikes!
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