Gingerbread Houses

Apparently, all of the retailers' marketing works well...mere minutes after waking up the day after Thanksgiving, Amelia and Soren were busy talking about Christmas.  Happily, we found a fun way to start getting ready for the next round of holidays:  making gingerbread houses.  Mommy designed the houses, Amelia and Daddy planned out the decorations, and Soren took the lead in tasting the various candy options.  As you can see, the results were beautiful and, as the kids can testify, delicious too...both houses were entirely gone within two days.