It's not really Christmas without the annual gingerbread house making tradition.
Daddy was the froster and the girls put on the decorations.
After an hour or so of gooey sticky fun the masterpiece was finished!
Looked so good we could eat it!
And since we were in the mood for making Christmas memories, Taber and were feeling brave and decided to take the kids downtown for the big Christmas tree lighting festival. Apparently it's a Geneva tradition and everyone and their dog (seriously, there were tons of dogs) goes and they close off 3rd street and have chestnuts roasting on open fires, hot cocoa, carolers, cookies, frosting shots, homemade candy canes and all sorts of fun Christmasy stuff.
It was a little more effort than we had envisioned due to the freezing cold temps and the fact that SO many people came that we had to park 8 blocks away and walk in the cold. The kids were pretty good troopers though and I think it was worth it once we got there.
The beautiful tree lit up in front of the courthouse. It is so so tall I have no idea how they decorated it!
Taber and the girls
One of the highlights was watching them make homemade candy canes at the candy store. The girls were pretty riveted.
And we actually convinced a kind stranger to take a pic of the whole family to document our adventurous outing. In the end it took a lot of effort but it was a lot of fun and I'm glad we got to go out and make some new memories with the fam.
2 comments:
It does seem like those things take a lot of work to go to! Sometimes I think, "This would be so much easier without kids!" but it's always worth it for the kids to remember something cool they did though. It's always refreshing to see things through their eyes too.
Thanks for your blog comment too! As far as fb goes...it actually feels good to be "out of the loop" sometimes! I'll always love following blogs though!
Hooray for new Christmas memories!!!
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