Candies, Gingerbread and Memories

We received a catalog on the mail recently. It is full of unique and interesting items and David loves looking through it. His favorite page is the one with a gingerbread house on it. He was always turning to that page and say "We should make one of these fancy cakes sometime". So I decided that it would be fun to make a gingerbread house with him and began planning. I have only made one gingerbread house before and that was two years ago with my sister Melissa. I decided to keep it a little bit simpler than that one since I would be doing this one with a three year old. I also decided to invite my sister-in-law Aleah to do it with us. One day Aleah and I went to the candy store to pick out all the fun and colorful candies for the houses. I baked the gingerbread pieces ahead of time so that everything would be ready to put together. Aleah's friend Abigail was visiting for a few days so she came over and joined the fun as well. We had fun putting the houses together. Fitting the pieces together which had shrunk to funny sizes while baking was a bit challenging but we managed to get it to work. Then of course the most fun part was decorating them. David loved adding more and more candy to his and of course sampling some of it, too. We had a lovely morning and made some special memories together.

Colorful Candies

Aunt Aleah and Abigail

David adding more candy decorations to his house

Gingerbread house makers

David's Gingerbread house

Aleah and Abigail's gingerbread house