Gingerbread Houses

What a blessing Grandma Ween is.  She willingly makes gingerbread houses each year with her grandkids at Christmas time.  In previous years, Austin and Carter made one together.  This year though, she had one for each of them to make.  Even better, she had supplies for Austin to make an ISU cottage and Carter to make an UNI cottage.  How thoughtful!  Somehow she found purple and yellow licorice to make it all work pretty swell.

They look rip roaring ready to go!  (Ignore the clothes on the couch in the background.  We should just all be happy it was actually getting done!)

It always amazes me that there is any candy left after my boys have done these.  I think their motto is eat one, put one on the house, eat one, put one on the house, etc.

This year, both boys were pretty independent with their gingerbread cottages until the icing decorator broke :(  Then Grandma Ween got to flex her muscles.

Both Austin and Carter had so much fun designing their own houses.  It's a terrific tradition that I am so thankful to Ween for doing with the kids.  I know they will look back on this time fondly in the future.