Christmas Tradition: Gingerbread Houses

For many years, we spent Christmas Eve with our old neighbours and their kids and the night always consisted of decorating/helping to decorate gingerbread houses. Michael and Melissa are all grown up now though so the appeal of hanging out decorating gingerbread houses on Christmas Eve is gone. The Christmas Eve tradition at my parents seems to have fizzled out as we all have multiple families to accommodate so this year, we focused our gingerbread house decorating into January. Braedon and Emjae did their houses on New Years Day and Simon used them for inspiration on January 2nd. The decorating started off well for Simon, he quite liked sticking the candy to the icing, that is until he realized how good the icing and the candies were. After that, it was mostly Matt, Granddad and I that decorated. Simon did instruct Granddad on what candies were acceptable and where not to place them - much like the christmas tree trimming earlier in the season.