Making Gignerbread Houses

We went over to Aunt Betty Ann's house today to make gingerbread houses...a time honored tradition in the Z household. It was lots and lots of fun and the day was capped off with some yummy food as usual and even more yummy desserts (i.e, ginger cake with some homemade pumpkin ice cream...YUM)!

Stella started off helping Mama with the gingerbread house but she quickly became more interested in eating the various candies rather than using them to decorate the gingerbread house.

When she grew tired of eating the candies, she went off to play with her cousins. She had a ball "playing" ping pong (which meant holding onto the balls), chasing each other around the house, and of course, playing dress up. So Mama was left on her own to finish decorating the gingerbread house.

Desmond just roamed around trying to figure out what he can pull down and destroy. When the kids were chasing each other around the ping pong table, Des would join in the mix and thought it was the funniest thing ever.

Des getting some lovin' and a pretzel stick from his Ommy

Posing for a picture with the finished product...