Gingerbread house decorating and Bake off

Another tradition we have every year with my Mom,sisters, neices and nephews since Sydney was 2, is to decorate gingerbread houses and to bake to our hearts content...and beyond. Mom, Kim, Kristy, Ashlee, Dillon, Brenden, Ethan and Kalin all came over to decorate the gingerbread houses and also to bake cookies, bread, bars, fudge, peppermint bark and more! We started the festivities bright and early, at 9 am. We set out the candy for the children as we iced the gingerbread houses, which wasn't such a great idea. It took a long while to ice the houses as the icing would not stick to the houses very easily. By the time we had all the kids houses iced, they were FULL of sugar...yikes! Oh well, lesson learned on that. Each child had their own creative house, some with loads of candy and others with just a piece here and there. As the kids get older and older,t hey become more and more creative. It will be interesting to look back over the years at the photos of all the different houses over the years. Mom, Kim, Kristy and I baked and ate and ate and baked. We had a blast, as usual. By the end of the night we were wiped out. No more baking for a while.