Gingerbread Day!

Whew, I am T-ired! We had a fabulous cookie making day! The kids were near perfect while the Christmas CD played over and over throughout the day. We started at 11:00 this morning making the special Royal Icing and "gluing" the candy on the walls of the house. This took forever! Les and I were so anxious to see the house put together, I actually rushed Nolan to finish his wall. The kids had a blast using their creativity and taste buds. They snacked on all of the candy and marshmellows through the process. Gosh I hope I am able to get them to sleep tonight! Yikes. We broke for lunch right after I finally got to assemble the house.
It really does not look that bad considering it was our very first house but definitely a start of a tradition.

Then it was back at the table to roll out and cut the gingerbread men cookies. Nolan and Leslie did really well rolling and flouring the table. I was impressed and they were impressed that Mommy was not using cookie dough from the refrigerator. Hee hee. Emily and Lily came over just in time to decorate the cookies later this afternoon. We had a bunch of cookies to do, so we were glad (and they were too) they were able to come visit for a short time. I tell ya, being so busy today really made the time go by even faster. My to do list for tomorrow consists of clean, clean, clean and grocery shop. YUCK.

This is Nolan making steaks for us tonight. You would think is 30 below zero when in fact it is only 30 degrees. That is really cold to us. Brrrrrr. But that does not stop us from a good steak on the grill.