Making Ginger Bread Houses

 I thought we might start a new tradition this year, and make ginger bread houses.

I found a kit with 5 little houses. 

Perfect.

I have five kids but.....

it was Christmas Eve and we still hadn't decorated them - the joys of older kids running in a million different directions! 

So, we hurried and put them together before my family arrived for our Christmas Eve festivities.

Austin was pretty disgruntled about it and refused to put on a shirt. Apparently he has enough facial hair to keep his whole body warm?

So, we gave him the smallest little house to decorate.

It was suppose to look like this:

He made it into some sort of space ship:

Ry's:

Dev's

Alex thought it was a race and he finished his first!

Then his roof fell in:

Kambree's"

Austin - who didn't want his picture taken either:

How it was suppose to look:

How it actually looked:

Not sure this tradition will stick.