Snoopy houses and all that

We had another really fun family night this week when we got a ginger bread house kit, and the kids put them together at the kitchen talbe.

 Ivie and Amelia were on one team

 Ethan worked on his own creation, notice he is using nutella insead of gross glue frosting?

 Me and Elise worked on this snoopy house...

 I did the structure and Elise did the decorations...

 Isobell and Lara worked on another one...

 Aaron's snoopy house was uniquely Aaron... sorta Charles Schultz meets Tim Burton.

 2 proud sisters

 Elise's final decorations... and goofball smile

and Ethan's creation with a "generator" on the far side......

Decorating early

Most years we barely throw the fake Christmas tree up in time for Santa to put presents under it. This year we were hounded early by the 6 and 8 year olds who are quite excited about Christmas this year. This was our family night activity, one of the best we have had, there was very little fighting or breaking things or even wandering off to other parts of the house to play video games (he know who I am talking about!)

Ivie has made a tradition, since she was very small, that she wears the Christmas tree skirt before it goes on the tree... I think somewhere we have a picture or her every year since she was about 4...

these 3 little girls were very helpful with the tree, Elise made sure we were getting the right branches in the right spot,  Isobell was helping with Ornament placement and ribbon (dis) placement, and Amelia was doing quality control.

I'm not saying that people were not goofing off last night , here is some evidence to the contrary.... Ethan singing  a song from fiddler on the roof, Aaron doing his impression of a low flying aircraft, and Amelia in constant motion...

But all in all it was a Very Good night!